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The childs book and youths book in two parts. : The first teaching an easie and delightful way to read true English ... : The second containing a method for spelling, a catechism, a confession of faith, a copy book, a perpetual almanack ....
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1672
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Wing C3874A; ESTC R173832
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Paper or Book you write in must lie straight before you and you must sit upright with your breast from the board you must bear your head the distance of a span from your writing and hold your right Elbow almost close to your body and turn your hand outward or from you Necessaries for Writing BEsides a clean sheet of Paper or a Book to write in you must have a waste Paper under your hand whereon to try your Letters and so keep that Paper clean on which you write You must also have a small pair of Compasses to rule double Lines betwixt which you must write and so keep the heads and feet of your Letters even Besides you must have a little flat Ruler for that purpose Rules for Writing 1 TAke your Ink up sparingly with the hollow side of your Pen downwards and be sure it be free from hairs 2. Imitate the small Letters first and begin not to make another before you can make one well 3. Take care to give all Letters having whites within them the same compass As the a b d e g o and p. 4. In Roman and Italian hands all the Letters with stems or long Letters must be of one height 5. All the tayls of Letters coming beneath the lines must be of one length 6. The space of a small o and another when you writ joyning 7. Take great care to give each Letter its true Full and Small according to the Copies Transeend the Copies in this Book and then You shall be honour'd with a Golden Pen. Here followeth the Copy-Book Examples of Secretarie Roman and Italian Hands Place this betwixt G H Secretary Hand A a b c d d e f g h i k l m n o p p q r r s ◠t v u w x y z A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U W X Y Z Our Enterprize will quickly fade except the Almighty bless it In the race of vertu◠be exceeding quicke win that most lovely prize Roman Hand A a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s s t v u w w x y z A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z 'T is a brave thing to equalize workes excellently performed Italian Hand A a b c d e e f g h i k l m n o p p q r r s s s t v u w x y z A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z Men will eternize their names by doing perfect exquisite works Of Arithmetick Or Casting Account ARithmetick is the Art of Numbring You must learn many rules to attain it as Numeration Addition Substraction Multiplication Division Progression the Rule of Three with many more But I shall only shew you some things of Numeration and Addition that you may be able to cast up a Sum of pounds shillings and pence Numeration is to know the true value of any Sum proposed As for example 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 These Figures I hope you know the value of already To number more together is thus 10 a figure of 1 and a cypher is ten 15 a figure of 1 and 5 is fifteen 20 a figure of 2 and a cypher is twenty and so on 24 twenty four 30 thirty 33 thirty three 40 forty 41 forty one 70 seventy 76 seventy six 90 ninety 99 ninty nine The first figure is an Unit the second figure is Ten and the third Figure is an Hundred Hundred Ten. Unit. 3 4 2 Which is thus 342 three hundred forty two 563 is five hundred sixty three 976 is nine hundred seventy six 110 is one hundred and ten Another Example Thousand Hundred Ten. Unit. 1 6 5 9. Which is one thousand six hundred fifty and nine 2762 is two thousand seven hundred sixty two and so it may continue on As units tens hundreds thousands ten thousands hundred thousands millions ten millions hundreds of millions thousands of millions millions of millions As for example millions thousands hundreds 23 567 890 which is twenty three millions five hundred sixty seven thousand eight hundred and ninety So much for Numeration Of Addition ADdition is to bring together two or more sums into one As for example  l. s. d. Paid for six quire of Paper 0 2 0 Paid for Quills 0 0 6 Paid for a cyphering-Book 0 0 6 The sum is 0 3 0 You must in this manner cast it up saying 6 pence and 6 pence is 12 pence that is one shilling I take that shilling and add to the 2 shillings it makes 3 shillings Another Example  l. s. d. Receiv'd of my father 0 16 0 Receiv'd more 0 10 0 Receiv'd more 1 00 0 Receiv'd more 0 10 4 The Sum is 2 16 4 I would know how much I have received in all It is thus In the place of pence there is but 4 pence it being less than a shilling put it under pence 4 next you come to shillings and find 16 shillings and ten shillings and ten shillings which is one pound 16 shillings carry one pound and put sixteen shillings under the place of shillings and that one pound that you carried and the other pound in the place of pounds make 2 pounds 16 shilling 4 pence which you received of your father More Examples l. s. d. 5 6 4 3 2 9 6 6 2 14 15 3 2 17 3 5 18 9 6 05 2 2 06 9 6 00 0 23 07 11 Several Receipts very useful and delightful to youth How to make a Childe learn the 24 letters of the Alphabet with ease and delight TAke a Sugar-Plumb or such like which is six square and upon every square put one and make fast a Letter six letters as a b c d e f on the six squares and so to be cast like Dice and when the Child knows the Letters perfectly let him eat the Plumb for his pains This way of encouraging Children is approved there are also small Books full of Pictures to teach children to know the 24 letters of the Alphabet containing 24 Pictures As A for Ape B for Bear D for Dog very delightful for Children You may be furnished with both at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street To stanch bleeding at the Nose Take a piece of Bread and sop it in Vinegar and eat it To stanch blood and heal a Cut. Take the shavings of Parchment and lay it in the wound it will stanch the blood and heal the place To help a stinking breath Take a handful of Cummin-seed and seethe it in good white-wine from a quart to a pint and drink of it for eight or nine days both morning and evening For a Cough or Cold. Take a quart of Ale or Milk and boyl it with Rosemary then put in a spoonful of Sugar and brew them together then go to bed and drink
distress and misery the land of darkness it is every-where where Heaven is not Of Angels ANgels were created of God immortal innocent beautiful and holy their habitation is in Heaven always beholding the face of our Heavenly Father they are mens guides keepers they are Gods messengers to save or to destroy Of Conscience IT is a Witness which our Souls carry about with us excusing or accusing it speaks peace when we do good and horror when we do evil it is a great misery to have a seared conscience a good conscience is a continual feast it will never leave us it is a witness for God and a good conscience is the best portion Of Prayer PRayer is the lifting up of the voice heart and soul to God petitioning either for necessary things of this life or forgiveness of sins committed Faith joined with Prayer maketh it more effectual when we read God speaks to us and when we pray we speak to God Payer and Repentance bring peace to the unquieted conscience Of Ignorance IGnorance is a defect a weakness a distemper in the mind which causeth a man to judge amiss of things it is a want of wit it is one of the greatest enemies man hath the wisest man is not able to declare the evil of Ignorance Ignorance is the Mother of error and misfortune Idleness begets Ignorance It is better to be unborn than untaught Ignorance is an enemy to blessedness and eternal happiness By the want of wit cometh much harm Ignorance leaves much good undone A man that is ignorant of the revealed Word of God is lead away with every wind of doctrine Of Wisdom THe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom He that doth not know and fear the Lord is a fool He that feareth the Lord and keepeth his commandments is of a good understanding That man woman or child which knows Jesus Christ to be their Saviour is of the best understanding and there will be light and life and true wisdom A wise son heareth his fathers instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going A wise man feareth and departeth from evil but the fool rageth and is confident He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor but a man of understanding holdeth his peace This small Book will not contain that which might compleat thee in the School of wisdom therefore I shall mention such Books as may help thee in spiritual wisdom and temporal understanding and the Lord give thee understanding to chuse good and eschew evil Amen Psalm 119. verse 9. WHerewithall shall a young man cleanse his way By taking heed to thy word Verse BY what means may a young man best his life learn to amend If that he mark keep thy word and therein his time spend Another How can youths path-way cleansed be but by thy word O Lord With all my heart I seek to thee O guide me by thy word Meditation Suffer me not O God to deferr the amendment of my life until I be decrepit with age but let thy word reform me in my youth yea from this present hour Teach me O Lord to delight in thee to seek thee praise thee speak of thee meditate on thee and keep in the way of thy Commandments for ever Amen Psalm 25. verse 7. O Remember not the sins and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think upon me for thy goodness sake Verse Remember not my faults O Lord and srailties of my youth Remember not how ignorant I have been of thy truth Nor after my deserts Let me thy mercy find But of thy own benignity Lord have me in thy mind Another My sins of youth and trespasses to mind oh do not take O mind me in thy tenderness Lord for thy goodness sake Meditation Remember not the sins of my youth O Lord Blot out my transgressions let not the follies of my youth nor the greatness of any other sins deprive me of thy loving kindness Consider my weakness and have mercy upon me for Christ his sake Amen Psalm 128. BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkest in his way 2 For of thy labor thou shalt eat happy art thou I say 3 Like fruitful vines on thy house side so doth thy wife spring out Thy Children stand like Olive-plants thy ' table round about 4 Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let the see 5 The promised Jerusalem and her felicitie 6 Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great joyes encrease And likewise grace on Israel prosperity and peace Psalm 138. BEhold and have regard ye servants of the Lord Which in his house by night do Watch praise him with one accord Lift up your hand on high unto his holy place And give the Lord his praises due his benefits embrace For why The Lord who did both Earth and Heaven frame Doth Sion bless and will conserve for ever more the same Grounds of Grammar Q. WHat is the Accidence An. The first book which we use to learn the grounds of Grammar in Qu. What doth the Grammar teach An. The Grammar is an Art that teacheth to write and the true order of speech Qu. What is speech An. Every word that men speak is Speech Qu. What call ye Word An. Every word is a part of Speech Qu. How many parts of Speech be there An. Eight Qu. Which be they An. Noun Pronoun Verb Participle Adverb Conjunction Preposition Interjection Qu. Why but eight Parts of speech seeing that there are so many words An. Every word that is spoken is one of these eight Qu. What is a Noun An. All names of things are Nouns as Manus a Hand or Franciscus Francis Qu. What is a Pronoun An. A pronoun is a word put in stead of a Noun as tu thou vos ye Qu. What is a Verb An. It is a word signifying to be be as sum I am to do as doceo I teach to suffer as doceor I am taught Qu. What is a participle An. It is a word declined with Case like a Noun and signifies to do or suffer like a Verb as doctus taught Qu. What is an adverb An. An Adverb is a word joyned to other words to shew their meaning as vivit honestè he lives honestly Qu. What is a conjunction An. It is a word which joynes other words together which be of divers sorts Qu. What is a Preposition An. It is a word set besore other words serving to an Accusative Case or an Ablative Case Qu. What is an Interjection An. It is a word which signifies some passion as evax oh brave Twenty in Latin 1 Unus 2 Duo 3 Tres 4 Quatuor 5 Quinque 6 Sex 7 Septem 8 Octo 9 Novem 10 Decem 11 Undecem 12 Duodecem 13 Tredecem 14 Quatuordecem 15 Quindecem 16 Sexdecem 17 Septendecem 18 Octodecem 19 Novendecem 20 Viginti INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING How to sit to write THe