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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95817	The Christian education of children according to the maxims of the Sacred Scripture, and the instructions of the fathers of the church / written and several times printed in French, and now translated into English.; De l'education chrestienne des enfans. English	Varet, Alexandre-Louis, 1632-1676.	1678 (1678)	Wing V108; ESTC R203876	133,498	455

God have all of them received displeasure in some of their Children Adam had the grief to see his younger Son murdered by his elder Brother Adam and to see that elder Son by a just judgement of God to be a Vagabond and Fugitive upon the earth for the punishment of his crime Of the three Sons of Noah Noah one of them discovered to his Brethren with contempt the undecent posture wherein he had found his Father in his drunkenness instead of hiding it from himself through respect as did his Brethren which drew upon his other posterity the malediction of his Father and that of God What displeasure had Isaac for the dissention which was between Jacob and Esau Isaac and which obliged him to banish Jacob many years from him and to send him into Mesopotamia till such time as Esau's anger was appeased Did not Esau marry strange Women against his will against which he had so great an aversion that he expresly recommended to Jacob not to imitate therein his Brother and never to take a Wife among the children of Canaan Jacob had the affliction to see four of his Children fall into a great crime Jacob. of which Joseph who was his youngest accused them before him He had the displeasure to hear that Reuben who was hi●●●●est Son had abused Bala one of his Wives The indiscretion of Dina his only Daughter was the cause that she was carried away and ravished by Sichem who was a young Lord of his Neighbourhood Simeon and Levi two of his Children entred into a confederacy without his leave and against his will to revenge this fact and killing all the subjects of that Prince exposed their Father as he himself complained to the hatred of all his Neighbourhood All the world knows the affliction which the jealousy of his Children against Joseph caused him to undergo and the sorrow he had for the captivity of Benjamin whom he so tenderly loved Aaron saw two of his Sons who were consecrated to the service of the Altar Aaron punished with death for having committed a fault in the exercise of their ministery and he was so lively touched therewith that he could not eat that day of the meats which had been offered in Sacrifice nor apply himself as he ought to the functions of his Priesthood because as himself says he had his heart and his spirit overwhelmed with sorrow for this loss The great Priest Heli Heli. who was a very holy man had two very wicked Sons who after they had caused him much displeasure by the disorder of their life made him dye with grief when he was informed in what manner they were slain and the dreadful chastisement they had drawn down from Heaven by their crimes upon the whole people of Israel Samuel had but two Sons whom he had established Judges of the people Samuel But they were no sooner raised to that dignity but they suffered themselves to be corrupted with presents and appeared so self-interessed and so unjust that all the people rejected them and demanded a King of Samuel to place in their stead What displeasures did not David receive from his children David Ammon his eldest Son committed an Incest with his Sister Thamar Absalon his second Son slew Ammon at a banquet to revenge the injury done to his Sister and this Wretch having recovered the friendship of his Father studied secretly to raise the people against him then openly declaring himself and taking arms forced him to fly from Jerusalem abused his Wives in the sight of all the people and had the insolence to pursue him with his weapons in his hand and to give him battle Now if you desire to know why God permitted that these great men for whom he had done so many wonders and to whom he had testified so great love received notwithstanding such sensible displeasures from their children and that these children did so strangely degenerate from the Virtue and the piety of their parents it is easy to answer you that it is to teach Fathers and Mothers who have not the merit of these so illustrious men First that they are indebted only to Gods grace that their children cause not to them the same displeasures and that it would little avail them to have applied themselves with much care to the education of their children if he did not bless their endeavours Secondly that the greatest tryall which can befall a Christian Father and which God makes use of to prove his fidelity and his submission to the orders of his providence is to permit his children to fail in their duties and in what they are bound to render to God and that thus Fathers and Mothers ought to dispose themselves to support these sorts of afflictions and tryalls how hard soever they be with Christian dispositions when he shall please to send them Thirdly that as it is a matter of great difficulty not to commit some fault either in the manner of educating their children or in overmuch indulging them or finally in being too much tyed to them in a humane way God according to the immutable order of his Wisedom who punishes us by the same things whereby we have offended him makes use of children to chastise Fathers and Mothers for the faults they have committed upon their consideration Thus God punished the incontinence of David by taking out of the world the Son he had by Bathsheba and revenged afterwards the Adultery committed by him in secret with this Woman by the abuse which Absalon made of his wives in the open sight of all his people Finally God permits that parents should receive displeasure from their children not only to humble them and to try their fidelity and to punish the faults they may have committed in their Education but furthermore to purify the rational affection they have for them and to teach them to love them not because of the sweetness they finde in the submission and the respect they render them but because they belong to God For God will have them accustom themselves to look upon him alone in all they do for their children and to surmount all the difficulties which occur in the designe they have to bring them to his service even to suffer patiently the contempt they make of their advertisements and to pursue them by the example of St. Monioa St. Monica in spight of all their resistance till God hath touched their heart and till they have obtained their conversion by their tears and by their perseverance as that Saint obtained it for St. Augustin You will perchance tell me that I exact great things of you that I demand you should do all your actions in a spirit of Piety and Zeal for the interests of God that you should be perpetually employed to procure his glory in the children he shall please to give you and that by consequence I engage you to a continual Prayer since I propose unto you a conduct and Maxims which you cannot keep without being powerfully supported by him whose help we obtain by humble prayer All this is true Sister and I aver that to acquit your self worthily of the obligation you have to give your Children an entirely Christian Education you are to follow in this Education the Maxims of the sacred Scripture and the Advices of the Fathers of the Church to apply them from their tender Infancy to them particularly whom you de sign to live in the World to embrace the means which may enable you in this generous enterprise to overcome the oppositions which you shall meet therein and to imitate perfectly the excellent Idea's of the holy Education I have here traced to you in the conduct of God and that of his Church I avouch I say that to acquit your self worthily of all these Duties you stand in need of very powerful Graces and you ought to live in a continual search and in a profound adoration of the designes of God upon your Children You are very instantly to crave of him the use of his Lights to enter into the knowledge of their necessities you are to abandon your self to his spirit for the choice of such sentiments and feelings as you ought to instill into them and of the times when your chastisements and your instructions will be profitable unto them and you must pray unto him that since he who plants and he who waters is nothing he himself will give virtue to your Words that he will engrave in their hearts his Fear and his Love and that as he would make use of you to give them the Life of Body and to employ your cares to procure that of their Soul by Baptism he will also make use of you to conserve and strengthen in them his Spirit and his grace To conclude you are to propose to your self the attaining of a very high perfection and the faithfull practise of all the most Christian Virtues and to make it appear to the whole world by the Christian Education of your Children that you engaged not your self in Marriage upon humane considerations or upon any other score unworthy of Christianism but to make use of the terms of St. lib. of the good of Marriage c. 25. Augustin That you were not a Wife nor desire to be a Mother but for the love of Christ Jesus and for the interests of his Church FINIS

Children Christianly For this Christian Education consisting in establishing them in a Christian Life it must destroy in them all that is opposite to this Life as the love of Honours of Pleasures and even of all unprofitable things In such sort that as in effect the Christian Life of the common people of the World ought not to be different from that of Religious persons in the Interiour Virtues which make the Essence of Christian Perfection it is also clear that in what concerns the ground of Virtue the Education of Children ought not to be different from the Institutions of Religious people since in truth we are all Religious of the General Religion of Christ Jesus CHAP. III. Of the second Errour which causes the Neglect of the Education of Children which is the little care Parents have to preserve them in Innocency IF the mean Idea which Parents form to themselves of the Christian Life and the small feeling they have in their hearts of the great Purity to which this life obliges us is cause of the little care they take in the Education of Children surely the false Imagination they have that it is a small matter to lose ones Innocency and that it is easily recovered contributes also extreamly to make Fathers and Mothers slide into this dreadful negligence And yet can there be a more horrible Infidelity than to violate one of the most holy and most inviolable alliances which God hath made with men which is that of Baptism by which we are initiated into Christ Jesus And what outrage commit we not against God says Tertullian Tertulian de Paeniten c. 5. when after having renounced the Devil who is his Enemy and have put him under God we raise him up afterwards and returning to to the Devil we render our selves his Trophee and his joy to the end that his spirit of malice having recovered the Prey which he had lost may triumph in some sort over God himself This moved an ancient Father of the Church to say that if one falls after Baptism Pacianus in Catech. he will be in worse estate than he was before he was Baptized because the Devil will keep him faster bound in his fetters as a fugitive slave whom he hath overtaken in his flight and Christ Jesus can no more henceforth suffer death for him since he who is resuscitated from the dead cannot any more dye This moved St. Paul to say in his Epistle to the Hebrews Heb. 6.4 That 't is impossible for them who have once been illuminated who have tasted the guift of Heaven who have been rendred partakers of the Holy Ghost who have been nourished with the sacred word of God and with the hope of the happinesse of the world to come and who after this have fallen away should be renewed again unto Repentance because as much as in them lies they crucify the Son of God afresh and expose him to open shame This means not my sister that there remains no hope of pardon for them who having been once delivered by Christ Jesus re-ingage themselves by their sins in the servitude of the Devil for it is most true that Christians sinning voluntarily after the knowledge of the truth finde a Sacrifice of Propitiation for their sins But it means that to obtain this pardon and deserve to be again once more purified by the Blood of this innocent Victime the sinner must according to the language of the Fathers pour forth not only natural Tears but Tears of heart which flow from a sincere Repentance and perform actions of strong Mortification and Pennance above the Idea which people are wont to form of it So that one may say 't is much more easy to conserve the Innocency of Baptism than to recover it by this means when one hath once lost it Besides that even when one hath recovered it there is still as great a difference between sinners converted and them who have conserved the Innocence of their Baptism as there is between a Subject pardoned by a King after his Treason and another who hath been always faithful to him between a broken Member which is cured and a Member which hath remained always sound entire What then should not Fathers and Mothers do to hinder their Children from falling into this dreadful misery And since there is nothing but a Christian Education which can preserve them with how great zeal ought they to apply themselves unto it And how high an esteem ought they to conceive of a Vocation which engages them not only to inspire into their Children all the sentiments of Christian Piety and of the sublimest perfection of the Gospel but moreover to use all sorts of precautions and to seek out all means possible to conserve them in their Innocence and to estrange from them all such things as may give the least occasion to alter or diminish in them the charity andgrace of Christ Jesus CHAP. IV. How far forth Fathers and Mothers are interested in the Christian Education of their Children and in particular of what Importance it is to Mothers WHat Interest Fathers and Mothers have in the Christian Education of their Children See Eccles 22.3 That a Childe who is wise and well instructed is all the joy of his Father whereas a Childe who is stubborn and bred up in the follies of the World despises his Mother and causes to her much sadness And again Pro. 29.15 Instruct your Son and no will be a comfort to you in all your calamities and will afford you great content whereas you will receive much confusion if he is ill educated And in Ecclesiasticus Eccle. 30.3 He who well instructs his Son shall be praised in his person and that he shall be the subject of his glory in the midst of his Domesticks and of his Friends If he comes to dye adds he it will scarcely appear because he leaves behinde him a Successour who resembles him He hath had the happiness and the comfort to see him himself in his life time and at his death he hath no affliction or confusion before his Enemies because he leaves a Son who can protect his family against their insults and acknowledge the favours of his friends And surely if reasoning even according to the Maxims of the World all the glory of a Father and of a Mother of a Family consists in the settlement and good government of their House what is there more advantagious to Fathers and to Mothers than to have Children well educated Since according to the Wise man the prudence and the good conduct of Fathers shining in the manners of their Children nothing can more cause their memory to be honoured than the good Education they have given them What avails it to a Father that he hath heaped up a vast quantity of Riches that he hath made many Freinds and acquired much Wealth if he leaves Children who for want of good Education will dissipate all his goods in superfluous and criminal expenses