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Rphefisns,
Chap.ó.
V
E K.
4
venue;
and religion
mutt be mannerly.
2. Ingiving them learning,
fuch
as
we
are able;
t4.
19.9
there
Ephef:ans
had
fchooles no
doubt
amongft them
:
the fchoole
of
one
Tyrannise a
noble Perfonage the founder, or
a
teacher,
of
the name
as
is
molt probableone
of
them. And
here parents mutt
take warning,
to let their children
at
leaf}
have
the
benefit
of
reading, which
as
it
is
helpefull
totheir
foules
health:
fo
it
is
an
ornament
in
any
condi-
tion
of
life;
and the purchafe
is
eafrein comparifon
of
the
benefit.
3.
The third
thing
is
to
enter them into
tome
calling
of
life:
thus
the
ancient
brought
up
their
Tonnes in
husbandry,
in
being Graficrs;
their daughters
in
the
flockes:
and
theheathen
have feeneit necclfarie:
for
as
the
Grecians generally would have
all
children
to
be`
bound
to
turbine
their aged
Parents, the
,,drbenians
put
in
this exception, un-
le*
their parents had
taught
them no trade wherewith to yearne
their
living,
which
if
they had not,they íhould not
be
bound
to
keepe
them
in age. But
the
religious
inftrudion
is
in this verfe chiefely
injoyned,
as
God
dothcommand
it
to
parents, Dent.
6.7.
Gen.
18.19,
EJày
38.
Parents
!hall
tell
their children, Pxad.
r
3.
of
the Paffeover
:
andwhile
they
are
young, they mull
feafon
them ;
as
old dogge will
not
learne
to
lade:
7ienothies
mother
an
example, who brought
up her fonne
from
a
childe
in
the Scriptures.
4.
The
parents
mutt
correct their children feafonably
:
for
this
maketh
all
the other
beneficial!
to
them
:
feeding
them without this,
will
prove pampering,
and make
them
kicke
when the provender
pric-
keth
:
provifion
of
inheritancewill
puffe
them with pride,
and caure
them grow
to
prodigall humors without corrcólion,
words
of
inftre-
lion will prove winde,all
will be
as
nothing
ifdifcipline
be
negle&ed.
It
is a
handmaide which tendeth on
all
the former,Prov.
ig.18,
z
;.We
teach them our
felves
or others, bringing them to
the
Church;
Chrii
went
up
with
Iofeph
:
or getting others that have
a
gift, to beftow
a
word
on
them this way.
But we
muff be circumfpe
l
in
it;
for
it
is
medicine, and Phyfickc
mull be given with good
advife.
1.
W
e
mutt humble our
felves in
repentance, for
it
is
not enough
to
have
a
good
caufc
to
fight for, we
fhall
beate our
felves,
if
we fitft
judge not our
felves
in
forne meafure,as
they did twice
fit
downe with
the
wort}
for this want, though they
had
a
molt
jufl
quarrel!.
2.
We
mutt
lookc
by
faith
to
that
prom
ife
of
God,
folly
is
bound,
it
is
our beleefe,
not
our
blow that worketh.
3. A
Manmufl have difcretion
,
marking what the difpofition
of
the
child beareth
:
as
the ftrength
of
medicine, mull be
meafured by
the
ftrength
of
the patient. Children
are like
herbcs for diverfitie:
Tome
themore you cut them downe the more they thrive,
if
you cut
otherfome,
unleffe
you
flatter
them after, you
kill
them.
Men beate
not Cumin with flayles,
or
Wheate
with little wands
:
which
may
he marked
in
his
corre&ion.
The
furn
of
this is,
that
parents muff
tu-
rbine
their children,
or they
are worfe
than
hearts. 2.
Mutt
provide
for,