Fpinf. 6. 4. s Prouer. 4. r4. Rea,ron I. Pfal, zz,lo. z. 3. E a Kinzs zp z4. trade ofhis wety, and when hee is oldhee will not departfrom, it , whereunto that precept to the Ephefians is agreeable : Pa_ rents, bringvpyour children in inFirodion andinformation ofthe Lord. Timothy was fo dealt with, and accordingly inioyed the benefit of it : He knew the Scriptures ofachilde, andby thorn zva,s madewife to falnration through the faith that is in Chri,` lets. And Salomon education was after the fame manner (for his parents made him not a wanton,though they loued him tenderly , but faithfully taught him ) and therefore the blefling ofGod was abundant unto him, for the increafe of his wifcdome and vndea (landing. Firfl , in refped of God this is expedient , vponwhom wee haue beene call from our motherswombe , and there- fore it is egaali that wee fhould eat" cur !clues vpon him from thence, that the fira fruitsofour youth, l rength, ca- pacity, wit, memory Stwildome,may be ianaifìed voto him. Secondly,opporrunity canal.) for it,thisage is moll com- modious for the rudiments of Religion , and the foundati- on of vertues : young plants be flexible, and eatìly made firaight : vices may be weeded outwith lodepaines a ifthey be plucked vp before they haue taken any deepe rooting in the heart : many wilde creatures aremade tame, when they are taken from their dammes teates,or netts. Thirdly; danger fhould driuevs vnto it ; for if we learne not wiledorne whilewe are yong, eytherwe nouer learne it, or much more hardly, when wee begnne not before tkee.. will day : And but few in companionofthe multitude, that haue bellowed their youthful! dayes in the delight offinne conuert their riper yeares to the feruïces of God , though Tome yet doe ohtaine graceand mercy to be reformed. Fourthly, children aremortall afwell as elder rnen,fubieti to punillimentallo,both before the iudgement feateofGod, and in this l«c,if they be wicked, as the vntimely deaths of two-and-forty vohappyBoyes that mocked atElifha decla- reth . Theywere old enough to deride the Lords me.11en- ger,laying i 4fcend thou bald-head , attend thorn bald-head: and
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