296 'be Pau? ano faintIp 15oot. dren to Read, and the Grammar-School to teach them Grammar, and then the Univerfity to teach theta the Sciences : Ifnow the brft and fecond (hall .Omit their parts, anda Boy (hall be fent to the Univerfity before, he can read, yea or before hebath learnt his" Grammar,. what a Scholar do you think that he is' like to make a 3f you have a houfe to build, One mull fall and fquare the Timber, and another nnuft law it .and another - frame ir, and then rear it': Mk farf b úndone,how Tall the f cond and 'third be done? .A Minifter _fhould find all his hearers Catechized and holily. educated that the -Church may be a Church indeed : But if a hundred or many hundred Parents and .Mailers will all cafe their work upon one Minifter, is it like, think you, to be well done ? Or is it any wonder if we have ungodly Churches, of Chriftians that areno Chriftians, who hate the Minifter and his Doctrine and a holy,, life, and the Phyficiari that would heal their fouls rq . beholden to them if theydo notderide him,,and lay hiri}, not in the Jail ! I know that all this will not excufe Mini.flers from doingWhat they can for fuch ! If you will fend your Children and Servants ignorant and ungodly to him, he muff do his bell : But O how much more goodmight he do, ár'dhow comfortable would his calling be, if Pa-. re;wrs would but do their parts ! We tal'c'Much of the badnefc of the world, and there is no men (except bad Rulers and Paffors) that do more to make it bad, than bad Parents, and family Go4ernours : The 'ruth is, theyare the Devils In- íruments as if he had hired them J to betray the ,fouls of their families into his power, and to lead them ';'^3 I l it With ;renter advantage than a 1Ii anger coulddo than D vii in his own name and ihape could do, Many
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