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R.
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z.
D.
Doll.
with
kindneffe.
Thus
Tutcns likewifc they nurture
not their
pupils
mannerly,
as
their rude carriage
in
the Churches
may
teftifre; they
inflruét them not
in
learning
,
which maketh them fometime
bole
mote
in
Grammar
learning
then they
gather
in Univerfity knowledge.
But for Religion, how rare
arc thole who
are
Fathers
to
the
routes
of
them, teaching them thethings that concerne their
peace
a
and
this
is
the
fountaine
of
all
mifery
:
the Switzers Law forefaw
his
who
en.
aâed,
that
if
a
child
was
condemned
to
dye
,
the Parent
fhould exc.
cute
him, becaufe
that
negleét
in
Parents
is
the
fountain
of
all
the
racke
of
their children. I know
a
Preacher
of
righteoufne.fic may
have
a
Cham,
and a
Seneca
may
be
a
Tutor to
a
Nero
;
but
ufually this
is
the rootc
of
all cvill,and
that
in
good
men
°therwife,
as
Eli,
David:
He
doth
not trouble the houfe onely
that
is
a
Lyon
,
a
covetous
mi-
fer,
a
prodigal!
mailer,
but he
that negledeth infttuttion
and difci-
pline
:
this maketh
thole that
fhould
be
Cordials to our
age
become
Corrafives,thofe that
fhould be
ornaments to
us
for verrue,
become
gulfes
of
mifchiefc
:
and
when things arc
thus,
then
wee complaine
and
fay,
Who
ever had loch
children,
fuch
pupils! thank
thy
felfe.
If
men
fhould
let
a
horfe run
in
the
fields
till
8.
pares
old unbroken,
and
then when he
would
not be backt,fhould fay,
Who
ever law
fuch
a
Jade r
whatwould another anfwer,
You fhould have taken him
up
betime,
and
given him
to
fomecunning
Rider,
then
hee would
now
have
obeyed the bridle,
and paced
it
pleafantly : So,
&c.
This
muff
teach
us
our
duties
henceforward, not to locke tobacke
and bellie,
and
matterof
inheritance,
but
to
fee
that the
foules of our
children be
inftru6ted and
ordered by
difcipline.
We
are carefull
to
procure midwiferia
that theyoung
infant may haveevery part harmo-
nioufly knit
in
it, we are angry if
there
fall
out through
negligence the
!call
difproporrion.
Let
us
help
the
gaping fpirit
which
is
feparate
from
God
,
which
is disjoynced in it felfe,
that
reafon and appetite
fighting
together,
let
us
knit
thefe joynts by timely
inflruilion.
Atfecond
thing
muff bee marked
in
this
word
admonition
:
forthe
force
of
it
is
fuch as
that
it
noteth
a
fafning
this
or
that
upon the
whole minder teaching
us,
That
we
mutt
not
be
content t9
fee
tkem
know,
but
muff labour
tore
their
hearts
entertain
theft.
things,
working
it
upon
them
by
admonition.
Thou
(halt
repeat, Deut.6.7. Thou
(halt not
(imp-
ly
recite,but
fo
as
letting
an edge upon
them,that
they
m:
y
Itrikedeep.
And
in
outward
things the
Parent
will finde
twenty wayes to
make
a
child
do this or
that,
Good children
will do thus
:
they
will givethem
Poch
a
thing; their
brother will
doe it before, &c. But
the
Lord
teach
us
ro
till them on
to love
and
praltife thefe things
which
onely can
make
them
bleffed.
Lafily,we
fee
here
laid
dewne,
That
all
our dealings with children
mull
be
fueh
its
the
ni
[dome
ofthe Lord
teacheth
in
his
word.
If
wee
cor-
all
or advife
out
of
our owne wikiome,
we doe
but
offer
to
call our
Satan with Satan.
Againe, our children are
as
foolifh
as
wilde
Afle
colts by
nature, void
of
heavenly
underftandingmow what
wifdome
can