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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12100	Lectures or readings vpon the 6. verse of the 22. chapter of the Prouerbs concerning the vertuous education of youth: a treatise very necessary for all parents in this corrupt and declining age of the world.	Shelford, Robert, 1562 or 3-1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 22401; ESTC S114782	69,487	141

LECTVRES Or Readings vpon the 6. verse of the 22. chapter of the Prouerbs concerning the vertuous education of Youth A treatise very necessarie for all parents in this corrupt and declining age of the world AT LONDON Printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man 1602. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS EGERTON Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of her Maiesties priuie Councell my very good Lord health and prosperitie with the increase of grace in this life and eternall happines in the life to come NOn datur beneficium nisi propter officium saith a learned Father Wherefore hauing performed this small part of my dutie in the house of God now at last I am bold to offer it to your good Lordship first as a signe of my dutie for your good Benefice in Suffolke lately bestowed vpon me and secondly for patronage For whereas since my going into Suffolke by meanes of some of my friends I was discouered to my enemies in the flesh but not in the Lord to be the author of this booke which at the first came forth like a fatherlesse orphan vnworthily I was cast vpon the obloquie of all men they seeing in me nothing worthie of this meanenes and behinde my backe was bought and sold for a vaine glorious man Thus while I shunned the title of vaineglorie and would not be like those Philosophers which as Tully saith put their names to the bookes which they make in contempt of glory ere I wist as Iob saith the thing which I feared fell vpon me Notwithstanding taking patience for my buckler and a cleare conscience for my defence I satisfied my selfe though I could not satisfie mine aduersaries Now so it is come to passe that all the first fatherlesse edition is spent and the vertuous call vpon the Printer and the Printer calles vpon me for a second presse exhorting me to make some addition or correction if I were so disposed that so it might come forth the second time with a happier successe The which thing hauing performed according to my weake measure I am bold to present it to your Lordships patronage to couer my simplenes vnder the shadow of your wing and to craue protection both for the worke and my selfe which if your Lordships fauour shall vouchsafe you shall encourage a poore Minister beginning at low steps to ascend higher in religious duties the young infants which as yet sucke vpon their mothers breasts shall thanke God for you and my selfe shall be alwaies bound to pray for you Your Honours in all dutie most bounden ROBERT SHELFORD READINGS VPON THE SIXT VERSE OF THE 22. chapter of the Prouerbs for the vertuous education of Youth Teach a child in the trade of his way and when he is old he shall not depart from it THis verse of which wee are here to speake at this present naturally deuideth it selfe into two heads The first is a precept or commaundement The second is the reason of the precept The precept is contained in y e former part of the verse Teach a child in the trade of his way The reason followeth in the latter part and when he is old he shall not depart from it Now first for the precept because it is set downe indefinitly the question may be moued who should teach to whom this charge and commandement is here directed The Magistrate is not heere spoken vnto because his office is not to teach and instruct by word of mouth but to rule and gouerne by lawe neither euer haue wee heard of any ciuill law giuen to childrē first for by reason of sooner instruction they are not yet fit and capable of it and secondly for that they are vnder the gouernment of those that are commaunded by it Againe these words doe not properly binde the Ministers of the Church first because this dutie is no where expresly commaunded vnto them in Gods word secondly because their duetie is to teach the parent how to bring his children vp and thirdly because the subiect of this teaching is more then belongeth to the profession of the Minister It is to teach a childe in the trade of his way which is not onely to instruct him vnto godlines but also vnto all other humane duties Wherefore this dutie then belongeth vnto parents and they are here bound by these words of this text and this we will proue both by reason and conference of holy Scripture For who should teach and informe the childe but they which haue the gouernment and commaunding of him But it is well knowne that parents only haue the gouernment and commaunding of their childrē or such as they shal procure for their better education and therefore this precept lieth vpon them and they must look vnto it Againe this is apparant euen by the generall law of nature which hath taught the very brute beasts to bring vp their owne young And further this duetie is yet enforced from the oportunitie of the thing commanded For euen as a plant will sooner take nourishment and thriue better in the soyle where it first grew sprong vp then in any other groūd because it liketh his owne soyle best so children will sooner take instruction and good nurture from their parents whom they best like and from whom they had their first being then from any other and therefore you parents are in fault if your children are not well taught For whatsoeuer good commeth from the parent to the childe is naturall and kindly no otherwise then the warme milke from the mothers dugge You shall sooner be heard of your children then either the sage counsell of the ancient or the forcible mouing speech of the learned Lastly the rule of iustice doth require that euen as the first parent Adam and so all other after him haue been a meane of falling to all their posteritie in begetting children in their own image which according to the law of creatiō should haue been borne in Gods image so now in lue of this al parents should lend their hands to lift them vp againe and neuer cease vntill they see in some measure the beautie of the first image and the vertue of the second Adam This is a thing so euident and so ingraffed in nature as that the holy Ghost thought it not a matter of necessitie to expresse here the name of parent But now let vs goe forward to confirme the same by testimonies of holy Scripture In the fourth chapter of Deuteronomie the Lord commandeth parents to teach their children the wonders of his law and that they might not trifle this ouer and make no great reckoning of it and thinke it but a childes matter the Lord there laieth a great weight vpon this charge in exhorting them to doe this with all diligence and carefulnes Take heede vnto thy selfe and keepe thy 〈◊〉 that thou doest not forget those things which thine eyes haue seene and that they doe not depart from thy heart all the