50 Queflions and Anfweres 5.Cmmalnd. 4. Avfw. The Âpoflegiueth :ansncpreffeCommandewen ofit, laying , Fathers, prowl( not your children towrasb, bur king them vpinmfirnú ion and information of the Lord. And the negle6ì of this bringing vp maketh many Parents want good be- hauiourin their children. For verie great is the force out to goodor euill,as the Hea then manLycurgus by his two whelps very livelyPets out , the (lone wherof is this: Lycurguedefiringto let the Lacedemonians fee the.forceofeducation, brought forth on a day to them two whelpes,wbich he bad diuerfly brought vp : the one hehad ac- cufiomed to the fielde, the other kept euer at home , and withthcm he brought out alto an-Hare , and.atiof of potage : which when he had fet downe, the one according to his.vfe of bringing vp, tookepefcnsly to the Harc,& the other vtterly negleéling, what cuen nature ihoulde hauewrought a regarde in him of, u prefentlie betooke himfelfe to the pot of potage.See thenfaith Lycurgue O ye Laccdemanians,what brin- ging vp is in vede brute and vnreafonablc crcatures,howe much more mull it needes 'The force of.. beer feéìuallto good.or milli in your Children t And the example mooned them Education. much. But in howe manie moo examples out ofgood writinges may wee plentifully fee howe carefull tuer all godly Parentes haue becne that in thefruite of their bodies the Lorde fhoulde be honoured,and his true religion planted and placed in their po- fìeritie: for verywell knew they that,which experience taughtboth them and others, that asvertuous and godly fruiteisafpeciali blefling of the Lord , fo anvngggracious and froward offpring is a croffe , that next after fcnfc ofGodswrath againflthem- felnes,dooth fling Moil bitterly the heart of godly Parentes. And again, they knew that,which we alfo cannot be ignorant of,that by nature neither theirswere,not ours are borne fo pure, as that they needed not the induirie of their Parentes to re.. forme them.For both then was it, and now is it moll true,which the fpirit of wifdome Pro. 2a./5, a ay heart omhim. Andínznetherpl ate, Theverraimsginationafmanshearn is altogether G cri.8. coalfrom hie cbildebeode. WonderfuLl huh the care of Heathens beetle Cher ore in this rcfpe&l,as partlie you haue heard andmight moll largely haue bene laide further beforeyou,ifit were needefull.Att ancient Paying it was and common amongft them: Niihau fwdmin vifuue hoelimina tangent intro reaper el hat is,Let nosier anytbsng Indecent to be fail or feene,enter into the houfe where a ehilde is within. Cato the wife Counfeller of Rome, thruftMan /iue from the Sedate , bccaufc on the day time his daughter beeingbyheekif ed his wife. 'Platirclo in hisbooke of this matter fingu.. lady difcourfeth ofthis care,howe great it ought to bce,and euer hash becne in good men,and bee maketh a comparifon betwixtEducation and other matters whichmen much efteeme,preferringitbeforethem all : Natalinm fplenelor. , (faieth he) resefFpre- clara,at benum amaioribus profe5facm,dre. That is,Birth and Parentage isa notable thing, but yet defcendingtovsfromothers. Riches are highly regarded,yet fodenly taken from them that haue them and given to them that looked not for them, and euer common to the bad afwel as tothe good. Glorie is a thing in mans eyes honorable, yet euer moft variable.Beautie múchwi(hed for,yet not to bee kept any long time with all the wifhes andwifedome in theworlde.Onely one thing , faieth her thereis,the benefit wherof neuer fayleth,but with life,anel that is the fingulat fruite ofgood bringing vp, Lyesrgue the Rhetorician,wben it was obie&ed to him,éhathe wafted too much vpoa the feathers of his children,aunfwered inoft wifely, that to a man that in deede would vndettake to better his children to his defire,he wouldnot onely glue that wages,but cu en the halfe of all that suer bee poffeffed.Such a care had this Heathen of chat,whitla Chriftians proton-Mg God,can be fo cateleffc of,in their dangerous & infeeliue dales. Ariflotle,could fay,that looke howe much better it is to be well, than to be: fo much Crates: more hound are thofe children to their parents , that receiue by them good bringing vp,than theywhich receiue but their bare exiftence in the world. Another inPlutarch againe faiethveriepretily,tbat if he could,hee would get him to the top of thehigheft hill that any where hemight finde, and with all his power, from whence bee might furtheftbe heard , crie outvpon the monftrous madneffe of thoufands of Parents, that take fetch intolerable and vnceffant pains caleaste much voto their children, and
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