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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32905	The golden book of St. John Chrysostom, concerning the education of children translated out of the Greek by J.E., Esq.; De educandis liberis. English	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3978; ESTC R10323	26,823	144

THE GOLDEN BOOK OF St. Iohn Chrysostom Concerning the EDUCATION OF CHILDREN Translated out of the Greek BY I. E. Esq LONDON Printed by D. M. for G. B●del and T. Collins at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet 1659. To my Most Incomparable Brothers GEORGE EVELYN Of Wotton in Surrey and RICHARD EVELYN Of Woodcot in Surrey Esqrs My Dear Brothers AMongst the very many diversions which I have experimented to mitigate and attemper the sorrowes which do still oppresse me for the loss of my Children and especially of that One so precious to me I have found nothing that has afforded me a greater consolation then this That it pleased God to give me opportunities and such a subject to work upon as I cannot but hope he has in mercy accepted And truly when I seriously contemplate the felicity of all those which are Well out of this miserable world I find the griefe which wee conceive for their absence to be a meer 〈◊〉 and does nothing at all concerne them whom we mourne for that have served God their Generation with honour and left a memorial without reproach You have Brothers both of you lost Children but none of them for whom you had reason to be so sensible as my selfe because they died Infants and could not so intirely engage your affections as if they had arrived to yeers of more maturity and the Spring had flattered you with the expectation of a fruitful harvest as me it did But because we are all obnoxious and that Cuivis potest accidere quod cuiquam potest be assured That of al the afflictions wch can touch the heart in this life one of the most superlative is the loss of a hopeful child and till I had the experience of this my self I have often wondered That David should suffer himselfe to be so far transported for the death of a Rebel that had violated all the Relations which ought to be betwixt a Son and a most indulgent Father I know well that another cause might contribute to the effect but all who shall read that sad story cannot but impute as much to his paternal affections as by man could be expressed These are Brothers the contingencies which since we can never be exempted perfectly of have caused me to seek the remedies which I presume here to have at last encountred and which I here likewise affectionately present unto you Let us make our Children fit for God and then let us not be displeased whensoever he takes them from us Deus nobis illos educandos non mancipio dederat There are a multitude of other precepts that I might recollect out of the consolatory Writings which are at hand Plutarch and Cicero Seneca and others But all their Topicks S. Hierom and some few Christians only excepted are most of them derived from Philosophy the pride and courage of another Institution and afford us but uncertain consolations in the wiser estimate of things So that hereby we may be less troubled in wanting the writings of Diogenes Clitomachus Carneades Possidonius upon the same Subject there being nothing capable truly to compose the mind of a good man for the absence of his friend or of his Child like the contemplation of his undoubted felicity It is that which I therefore endeavor here to secure in offering to you this Golden Book of S. Chrysostom which having afforded me soe great a consolation I cannot but ●hope may be likewise acceptable to you and useful to as many as have either bin touched with the like resentiments or that do establish for an infallible Maxime that saying of Plato {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That those who are well and rightly instructed do easily become good men And the thing is verily of so great importance That some have taken Education for Religion it selfe All for another Nature which he that shal read of the Laconick Discipline will not easily dispute This is certain That were this one thing well secured Princes would have good Subjects Fathers good Children Wives good Husbands Masters good Servants God would be sincerely served and all things would be well with us And here I would now end did not my Affections a little transport me and the hopes that you will yet indulge it if whilst I erect to my dear Child no other Monument I shew to the world how neerly I concurr'd with the Instructions of this Golden Book before I had seene it and what may be expected from a timely Education if now that we may both read and have it we with diligence pursue it I cannot with S. Augustine say of my son as he of his Annorum erat ferè quindecim ingenio praeveniebat multos graves doctos viros But this I can truly affirm He was little above five years old and he did excel many that I have known of fifteene Tam brevi spatio tempor a multa compleverat He was taught to pray as soon as he could speak and he was taught to read as soon as he could pray At three years old he read any Character or letter whatsoever used in our printed Books and within a little time after any tolerable Writing hand and had gotten by heart before he was five years of age seven or eight hundred Latine and Greek words as I have since calculated out of his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} together with their Genders and Declensions I entred him then upon the Verbs which in four months time he did fectly conjugate together with most of the irregulars excepted in our Grammar These he conquered with incredible delight and intelligence of their use But it is more strange to consider that when from them I thought to set him to the Nouns he had in that interim by himself learned both the Declensions and their Examples their exceptions Adjectives Comparisons Pronouns without any knowledg or precept of mine insomuch as I stood amazed at his sedulity and memory This engaged me to bring him a Sententiae Pueriles and a Cato and of late Comeniu● the short Sentences of which two first and the more solid ones of the last he learned to Construe and Perse as fast as one could well teach and attend him for he became not onely dextrous in the ordinary rules by frequent recourse to them for indeed I never obliged him to get any of them by heart as a task by that same carnificina puerorum upon occasions but did at this age also easily comprehend both the meaning and the use of the Relative the Ellipsis and Defects of Verbs and Nouns unexpressed * But to repeat here all that I could justly affirm concerning his promptitude in this nature were altogether prodigious so that truly I have been sometimes even constrained to cry out with the Father as of another Adeodatus Horrori mihi est hoc ingenium For so insatiable were his desires of knowledg that I well remember upon a time hearing one discourse of