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Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Christ. Are not my ways, O Youth! for thee, Then thou shalt never Happy be: Nor ever shall thy Soul obtain. True good, whilst thou dost here remain.
Youth, To thee O Christ! I'll not adhere, What thou speakest of doth not appear Lovely to me; I cannot find Tis good to set or place my mind On ways from whence such sorrows spring, And to the Flesh such Crosses bring: Don't trouble me, I must fulfil My Fleshly Mind, and have my will;
Youth, To thee O Christ! I'll not adhere, VVhat thou speak•st of doth not appear Lovely to me; I cannot find Tis good to set or place my mind On ways from whence such sorrows spring, And to the Flesh such Crosses bring: Don't trouble me, I must fulfill My Fleshly Mind, and have my will;
Christ, Unto th• self then I'll thee leave, That Satan wholly may thee have; Thy Heart in Sin shall hardened be, And blinded in Iniquity: And them in Wrath i'll Cut thee down, Like as the Grass and Flower's Mown, And to thy Woe thou shalt espy. Child-hood and Youth is Vanity; For all these things I'll make thee know, To Judgment thou shalt come also, in Hell at last thy Soul must burn, When thou thy Sinful race hast run; Consider this think on thy End. Least God doth thee to Pieces rend,
Christ, Ʋnto th• self then I'll thee leave, That Satan wholly may thee have; Thy Heart in Sin shall hardned be, And blinded in Iniquity: And them in Wrath i'll Cutt thee down, Like as the Grass and Flower's Mown, And to thy Woe thou shalt espy. Child-hood and Youth is Vanity; For all these things I'll make thee know, To Judgment thou shalt come also, in Hell at last thy Soul must burn, When thou thy Sinfull race hast run; Consider this think on thy End. Least God doth thee to Pieces rend,