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VE
R.
i}..
Ephefianr,
Chap.
6.
691
fort
hem,
or
they arc
worfe then Ants.
3.
Muff
inf
ruá
them
in
man-
ners, literature and fome
calling, or they are
work
then heathen.
4.
Becaufe
they doe not onely ayme
at this
to
have their children
members
of
fome
Corporation, but Citizens
of
heaven, they
muff
teach them
the
doctrine
of
Salvation,
elfe
their
righteoufncffe
Both
notexceede
the
heathens_.
S.
Becaufe
that
the
former
will
not
fucceede
without
di
cipline,
they
muff give
them
in
good manner
fit
correaion.
Now
to
apply
this,
it
meeteth with
many
in
way
of
reproofe
:
for
rf
i.
not
to
fpeake
of
fuch
monfers
as
fometime bellow their children
un-
der (tails
:
how many
frnne
againft
this, bringing
up
their children by
neglect
of
nurcerie,
not
caring
how
fleightly
they
put
it off,
if them.
felvesare(hut
of
that trouble,
info
doing they hinder their owne
fal-
vation
:
for he
that putteth
away
Phyfickebeing
fick,
hurteth hisown
life, and
accordingly
we may
fee
how their
foules are
filled
with
an
evil!
fpirit
:
for putting
by Gods
yoake,
they
grow to
paffe
their
times
in idle
talking, goffopping, this or
that
merry meeting, and thus while
¡their
flefh
will feele no
fowre, they
lofe
the fweetc
of
grace
in
their
foule. Again, they breake
up
the bounds
of
nature,
for
Lam.
4.
3.
the
very dragons
or
fea-
calves
draw
the breafts forth
and give
flicke
:
infuchtherefore
as
for pleafute, cafe, trifling profits neglect it, the
fin
is
grievous.
But
you will fay,
if
it
be fuch
a
necef'arie
thing, why
is
it
not,
ex-
Ot
jetif.
preffely
commanded
Some things
are fo
natural!,
that they
are taken
as
granted; nor ex-
vlf.
prefíely
commanded
:
the
Scripture
cloth
not
fay,Thou
(halt
love
thy
felfe,
yet
it
taketh this
as
granted,when
it
faith,
Love thy
neighbour
as
thy
felfe
:
for
this
is a
molt naturali thing, written about thy
nipples,
written
in
the
wife and
colour
of
the milke.
Befide
that
unleffe
you
will have
the mothers
duty not taught here
is a
precept,
fhe
mull bring
itup
:
if
nurceric
be not
a
part of education, let her
pleade
exemp-
tion.
There
are many parents
that
riot out
all
their
increafe in
fellow-
4.
(hip, gaming,&c. and
bid to morrow prophanely
cam
for
it fclfe,
they
fing
care
away.
Many neglect looking
to
the
manners
of
their
children,
they
3;
are rude, they
can like
thofe
cuffed
children,
call bald
-
head;nickname,
Çweare,
curfc.
Again, fome
that
are able will not bring
them
up
to
reade. Others
let them be
as
idle
as
they
can
hang, which
loth
fill
,Gaoles,which
was
the
fiat
ground
of
vagrants; which maketh
fuch
(tore
of
idle
hufwives,
who know not how to
get a penny,
if
they
lay
not their body
to
pawne. But fome they thinke they
have
done
enough
if
they
have
brought
them to be
able
to (hilt,
and live men
in
this or
that Corporation;
they have
care
of
inftruFing them, tel-
ling
their children they
are
loft, how Chrift
came
to
feeke
that
was
loft; what
duty they owe
in way
of
thankefulnef'e,
and for
correaion;
the
age
is
fo
indulgent,
that
like as
Apes
doe their young, they
kill all
0
o
a
with