N29515:726
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.
Youth, Now Lord, I am at a great stand, To turn to th' right, or to the left Hand, Obey the Devil, or Gods Command. If I to Godliness should cleave, And my old Company should leave. With great Reproaches I shall meet, And loose my Pleasures, which are sw••• ▪ My Comforts will me much deride, And never more will me abide. Moreover, this I also know, God can at last great Mercy show▪ Excuse […] then, you do me wrong; To mind Christs ways I am too Young, When i am Old and Pleasures gone, Then what God says i'll think upon.
Youth, Now Lord, I am at a great stand, To turn to th' right, or to the left Hand, Obey the Devil, or Gods Command. If I to Godliness should cleave, And my old Company should leave. With great Reproaches I shall meet, And loose my Pleasures, which are sw••• ▪ My Comforts will me much deride, And never more will me abide. Moreover, this I also know, God can at last great Mercy show▪ Excuse 〈…〉 then, you do me wrong; To mind Christs wayes I am too Young, VVhen i am Old and Pleasures gone, Then what God says i'll think upon.
Christ. Nay, hold vain Youth, thy time is short, I have thy Breath, I•ll spoil thy sport; Thou shalt not live ti• thou art old, Since thou in sin art grown so bold: I in thy youth, grim Death will send, And all thy Sports shall have an end.
Youth, I am too Young, alas! to dye, Let Death some old grey Head espy. O spare me! and I will amend; And with thy grace my soul befriend; Or else I am undone, alas! For I am in a woeful Case.