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duty_n	child_n	mother_n	parent_n	5,127	5	9.0796	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54288	New instructions to the guardian shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is I. a more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry, II. to breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment, III. more of them to holy orders, with a method of institution from three years of age to twenty one.	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1440; ESTC R5509	42,499	186

bestowed So that if the Gentry and Nobility will not be encouraged to take such seasonable advice as this it is because they resolve to goe on in the ancient Road of Carelesness 3. Besides the secular inducements there is one advantage more of an higher Consideration The everlasting Condition of the Soul in the life to come which nothing but a Vertuous and Holy education can secure I know Abraham says God Gen. 18.19 that he will command his Children and his Houshold to keep the way of the Lord to do Justice and Judgment that I may bring upon him all that I have spoken Old Eli paid dear for miscarrying in this point because his Sons made themselves Vile and he restrained them not It cost him the Life of his two Sons his own Neck and such a Curse upon his Posterity as made both the Ears of every one that heard it tingle 1 Sam. 3.11 So true is it what God said to Ezekiel 3.18 When I say to the Wicked thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning from his wicked way that he may save his Life he shall die in his Iniquity but his Blood will I require at thine Hands And when God shall bring the Young-man into Judgment for walking in the ways of his Heart and the sight of his own Eyes with what confusion shall the Father hear the poor Creature plead for his excuse He was bred to nothing and knew no better He was a good Moralist tho' no Courtier who with the sarcasm of a Blow reprov'd the Father for the Crime of the Son And in truth Children are Talents to be accounted for Redde mihi Liberos meos There is no returning as you found them They must be improv'd Most Men think they have done their Duty when they have gotten Children and an Estate leaving their Souls to God and their Wives And 't is observable That many Ladies are very industrious and begin betimes with Prayers and Catechisms but after a little time the Child grows up to be a Boy and the Boy grows too wise for his Mother and then the Father undertakes the Management and here it is that Time and Chance happens to his Morals and Religion The Father he is careless concludes that Virtue will come to him some way or another as it did to himself supposing him a good Man but if himself be not so then the insluence it is likely to have upon the Child must needs be obvious beyond the Power of all the Prayers and Tears of the best Wife Mother or Sister in the World Infinite is the force of Example and Instruction from Parents on the tender Soul of a Child and the encouragements to do their duty are great 2. From that Reverence and Love which earliest of any thing appears in the Child's looks and actions the constant care presence and fondness they shew begets from the Infant It is notorious that a Person learns the same thing much more speedily and more effectually from a Man he loves than from a stranger or one he fears and hates Whose Commands are received and obeyed with more reluctancy than from Parents 2. It is a great advantage the Parents have to deal with a Child who knows nothing already and yet desires and longs to know any thing To teach him is to write upon Clean and Smooth Paper and if you make not a good stroak a plain Letter and a streight Line it is the Pen or the Hand that holds it but not the Paper to be blamed 3. The Child as yet hath contracted no Ill Habits which are a great hindrance to Instruction of Persons in years especially as to Morals 4. The Devil is at a loss to deal with a Child who knows neither good nor evil by all his Temptations 5. God's Blessing may reasonably be hoped for to succeed their careful performance of the Duty he commands It is God's business they do they are his Children they breed up as Jacob told Rachel Gen. 3.2 and He never fails to reward those that serve Him faithfully in it 6. Those Children who are most Vertuously bred up prove most Dutiful and Comfortable to their Parents for ever after whereas a Child bred up without the Fear of God will never reverence Man And how will all the Immoralities of his life the great dangers he runs into in this World and the greater dangers he ventures in the next afflict the Souls of his Parents hasten their old Age equal the Pangs of his Birth and make them sorry that a Man Child was ever born into the World 7. One infinite advantage Parents have above a stranger in Education of their Children they knowing their own natural Infirmities and foreseeing the danger that a share of them may be born with their Children ought to be Jealous of the mischief watch the first motions and more seasonably obviate the Disease than others can And from hence it is easy to account for that infamous Atheism and Immorality which for many years have disgraced Reason and Humane shape It must be charged upon this Fundamental misearriage in Education For though Nero and some others may be alledged as Insiances how much Institution may be foil'd by Nature yet Socrates ingeniously confessed what power Philosophy had in such a case And why should not Christian instruction do the same The knowledge of his Duty and God's Grace would make Vice looked upon as an Enemy and its Temptations suspected It would supply the young Man with an answer to the World the Flesh and the Devil How can I do this great wickedness and Sin against God Gen. 39.9 Joseph was young enough and private enough to have play'd a Courtier but his Heart was brim full of Gratitude and made him as great a Master of his own little Family within his Breast as he was in Potiphar's House all at his Command no Passion stirs What Sin against the good Master I live upon and the merciful God who by Miracles brought me hither I may not I dare not break in upon my Conscience with such a Guilt With what Horror shall I live and how can I dare to die And here having mentioned Dying I cannot avoid offering a serious Consideration of the most dismal Apprehensions which must needs confound the Soul of a notorious Sinner when a Desperate Sickness shall set him beyond any Relief from Pleasure or Delight in Life when Pain encreasing Strength failing Time shortning he fears a few Minutes may put him upon the woful Experiment of the Grand Perhaps When Conscience let loose shall prevent Stupidity what Painter is able to draw the Horror and Amazement of his Looks He stares as if his Eye-lids were never to meet his Groans make the standers by tremble as much as the Bed that he lies upon he knows not how or where to begin Repentance he is ashamed to think of Mercy and at last angry at the Immortality of his Soul he seems willing to die because Damnation

Monarchies of the World Four Elements V. Five Books of Moses Five Senses Five Declensions of Nouns VI. Six Days for the Creation Six Days in the Week for Labour VII Seven Churches of Asia Seven Wise Men of Greece Seven Kings of Rome VIII Eight Persons saved in Noah's Ark. Eight Days for Circumcision Eight Parts of Speech in Latin IX Nine Muses X. Ten Commandments XI XII Twelve Patriarchs Twelve Tribes of Israel Twelve Apostles More under each Figure you may add and occasionally explain the Particulars As for instance under the Figure 1 One World because some pleaded for infinite Worlds One God because the Heathen worshipped many false Gods One Mediator because the Papists have many 3. Because of all instruction there is nothing so much to be considered as the Morals of a Child both for true Happiness here and hereafter besides the Directions every where in the Guardians Instructions As soon as ever the Child seems to stare about that is as soon as ever he is capable of Observation and Reflection I would have the Tutor take Solomon's Proverbs especially such as respect God Religion Good Manners Civil Breeding and Duty in all Relations and Enlarge on and explain them according to the Lord Bacon's method in his Advancement on the Sundays and Holydays Perhaps it may be wondered at why I distinguish this Exercise by the particular time of performing it Truly it is to beget an early veneration for the Sabbath and holy Festivals For when a Child is accustomed to a more Solemn and Religious Instruction upon some days than others he will in time begin to consider why so and being taught the Occasion and the Reason perhaps may love and observe such times the better for it as long as he lives 4. Another diverting exercise for a Child is that of Writing which will profitably fill up some idle Hours a Muscular Motion the sooner the better it is begun Though it be allmost Proverbial That Scholars Write ill yet three Parts of the Kingdom take a good Hand to be some degree of Learning and it is no disparagement to good Sence to be written in a fair Character and read with pleasure especially if he prove an Author and write Books it will save many a curse from the Compositor These and the following Directions may serve private Schools as well as Families especially if true care be taken to place Children of near the same Age and the same Capacities in one Class wherein the Instructions being equally intelligible may beget a laudable Aemulation and brisk the Spirits which by carelesness would stagnat and lie unactive And on the other side when a Youth of less Age though perhaps as good Natural Parts shall be forced every Hour to do the pennance of Admiring the great Performances and Commendations of the Scholar who sits next him The first effect of this is he often wishes he could do the same but afterward sighs because he cannot this begets a kind of shame and discontent which makes his little Soul retire and hide it self he acts what he could do with less of Spirit and quarrels the Stars for not being born as wise as he who is Five Years older I would have the Immoralities and Negligence of Youth punished severely but as to their Meer Parts and Natural Abilities all the kindness and encouragement in the World is but enough There are many more particulars very proper to have been Added here but I referr the Tutor to the general directions for the better breeding a Child of great Quality in the Guardian 's Instruction pag. 65. One Advice I must conclude the Child's English Exercises with After he hath paid his Devotion in the Morning and before he doth it at Night let him constantly read a Chapter Great is the Influence of such a Practice I have been told of Persons noted for extravagance of Atheism and Immorality who have yielded to the Impressions of such a Custom retired to say their Prayers and read a Chapter whenas before and after this they would dispute God's Being and Providence and return with the Dog to their Vomit and with the Sow to their wallowing in the Mire It is expedient that those Chapters be frequently read which may fix in the Memory such great Examples as make God's Providence illustrious either for miraculous Deliverances of good Men such as are Joseph Moses Hezechiah Daniel or for Punishing notorious Sins as the Rebellion of Corah Oppression of Ahab Pride of Nebuchadnezzar Sacrilege of Belshazzar Cruelty of Haman Lying of Ananias and Saphira c. The Pleasure of such kind of Readings will make a Child mind the Sense and perhaps may render the Remembrance very instructive Directions for Learning Latin and Greek THE Rules of Grammar for learning Latin and the Explication of those Rules have been performed well already and it is not for me to pretend to that Art I shall Master my Design if I can but suggest any thing that may be useful to make the Practice of those Rules easier for the Gentry For I have often heard from Gentlemen who have travailed that Children in the Schools abroad come sooner much to understand Latin than here in England I know better than to question the truth of what comes well attested I only wish to be able to prevent some of those Impediments which make the difference 1. Some alleage for an occasion of it the Foggyness of our Air and foul Feeding as if forsooth the Soul of an English Child were mired and so stuck as it were in a Muddy Carcase as to move more heavily But this I will never endure for a reason of the thing because our Youths would then never be able to overtake these hasty Sparks which 't is certain they do when they grow and if I were not an Englishman I would assert that they out-go them generally in that Language And what Nation in Europe need we envy the Professors in all Arts and Sciences Divinity Mathematicks Civil Law Physick Critical and Philological Learning So that let not our good Beef and Mutton be thought ill of or the Air impregnated with our Ignorance and Dulness Unless in favour of Musick an Italian should put in a Cavent against all Tramontanes and with a keener Judgment split our gross Sounds and seem to want the delicate touch upon the Drum which beats in his Climate 2. Others therefore ascribe it to the differing Method in teaching as is said in the Apparatus de Grantmaticâ pag. 28. which if true us there seems more sense in it then it were to be wish'd that whosoever is hereafter so Piously and Publickly enclin'd as to Build and Endow a School before he tye up the School and Schoolmaster by strict and unalterable Statutes of Method he would scan the courses that are taken beyond Sea and fashion his own Institution to the Advantage and Honour of our Nation For the common Rules of Teaching here either by Custom or particular Injunction of