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A39227	The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.	1678 (1678)	Wing E512; ESTC W4384	172,517	138

concerning grave and severe Education of youth rise up in judgement against our reforming Churches who are far more advantaged than they were to the performance of this great generation work Yet are we much more failing therein than they were we do know that the long duration of their flourishing state did spring and grow in this garden of severe Education of posterity of all sorts of youth which blessing is founded and promised in the fifth Commandment We do already plainly see that the degeneracy and ruine of our reformed Churches springeth up yea cometh upon us like a raging flood out of this neglected garden the want of due and prudent severity in the education of our youth We have all Scripture light strongly ingageing of us to this duty I shall only intimate a few Scriptures 2. Tim. 3.14.15 16 17. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned knowing of whom thou hast learned them And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished unto all good works Eph. 6.4 And ye Fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in t●● 〈◊〉 ●●d admonition of the Lord. Deut. 6.6 7. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart● and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when t●ou lyest down and when thou risest up Prov. 22.6 Train up a Child in the way he should goe and when he is old he will not depart from it Deut. 29.10.11 to 16. Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God your Captains of your Tribes your elders and your officers with all the men of Israel your little ones and your wives and thy stranger that is in thy Camp from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God and into his oath which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy Fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob. Neither with you only doe I make this Covenant and this oath but with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God and also with him that is not here with us this day Nehem. 10.28 And the rest of the people the priests the Levites the porters the singers the Nethinims and all they that had seperated themselves from the people of the lands unto the Law of God their wives their sons and their daughters every one having knowledg and having understanding To train up our children to worship God with Reverence and godly fear is a powerfull curb restraint and correction of that natural enmity that is in their heart against God and against his holy law It suppresseth the natural habits and permitteth not the irritation of corruption to be stirred up it quencheth the burning of all such sparks it chaseth away the foolishness that is bound up in the heart it habituates the soul in a principle of hatred against sin it inureth them into shame and sorrow for sin which is so contrary to the law of God and all religion and holy worship of God it layeth in yea storeth the soul with principles and habits of virtue which will never wear out nor be forgotten because he hath been so taught and practised from a child Such religious education of Children doth greatly dispose prepare their hearts for the special work of the Spirit un●o their conversion they being alwayes trained up within the walk of the Spirit such religious education doth principle them to be ready for any service of God in their generation The first impressions that are strongly made upon the tender souls of children will never wear out Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu It is a very false and pernicious principle that many people and parents are tainted with viz. that youth must be suffered a while to take their swinge and sowe their wild oates to travail into the world to follow the fashions company and manners of the times hoping they will be wiser hereafter O false principle God speaks fully to the contrary Prov. 19.18 Chasten thy Son while there is hope and let not thy soul spare for his crying Prov. 13.24 He that spareth the rod hateth his son but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes The gentle rod of the mother is a very soft and gentle thing it will break neither bone nor skin yet by the blessing of God with it and upon the wise application of it it would break the bond that bindeth up corruption in the heart Prov. 22.15 Yea yet greater is the power of this gentle thing Prov 23.13.14 withold not correction from the child for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not dye thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell The after welfare of our children de●endeth very much upon their education We want not experiences of both ds some we have can never get rid of the stains of their youth Davids heart pincheth him upon that account Psal 25.7 So doth Jobs distressed soul lament Job 13.26 Thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth We often find the good effects of holy and severe education of which Timothy is a noted example We have experienced that text Amos. 2.11 I raised up of your sons to be prophets and of your young men for Nazarites is it not even so O ye children of Israel saith the Lord and is it not so with us O new-New-England but the Reproof that followeth v. 12. we have too sadly experienced But ye have given them wine to drink is it not so O new-New-England This is a lamentation and will be for a lamentation if it be not reformed CAP. VIII The History of the Conversation of Jesus Christ all the time of his Youth Luk. 2.50.51 AND he went down with them and came to Nazaret and was subje●t unto them and Jesus increased in wisdome and stature and favour with God and man These few words are an Epitome of an Hi●tory of eighteen ●ears ●he above-named famous history of what Jesus did when he was about twelve years old was the shutting up of the period of his child-hood and the beginning of his youth all that is said of this period of his youth is expressed in these few words in this text and we hear no more of him till he was about