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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76373	An epistle to Friends, concerning the education of children.	Bellers, John, 1654-1725.	1697 (1697)	Wing B1827A; ESTC R170500	1,417	4

AN Epistle to FRIENDS Concerning the Education of Children NEXT the Care of our own Souls a right Education of our Children is greatest for he can scarce be said to be a Happy Father whose Child is Unhappy And also the great Master of Heaven and Earth who hath given us the Charge over them to Nurse and Educate will require them at our hands For if such Inanimate Things as Corn Wine and Flax shall be accounted for much more our Off-spring Yet it 's to be feared if there is not more Care and a better Method than hath been hitherto taken in many of our Childrens Education too many of them will leave the Service and lose the Blessing of Upholding the Profession of Truth in succeeding Ages to the Families of Strangers whilst the Posterity of the present Professors of it may have little Share in it Heavy and Sore was the Judgment upon that honourable old Man Eli for his Neglect of his Children tho' he reproved them their Sins being his and their Ruin and the Loss of the Priesthood Reproof stands for little without other good Management and with it Children trained young will need little Correction or Reproof either and that lies much in a constant useful Imployment joyn'd with good Instruction a good Instructor being like to a good Seeds-man but how Poor will the Crop be if the Husband-man doth not manage his Ground first by Plowing and stirring it to prevent Weeds growing The Mind is always at work bringing forth something and a right managing of that in our Children is the chief of our Charge concerning them and their Thoughts are of four sorts 1st either Innocent as when Infants or 2dly Useful when their Hands are usefully imploy'd or 3dly Foolish or Wicked When Idle or 4thly Religious Idleness is the Devil 's great Opportunity especially added to ill Company Infants are capable of little but feeding bigger Children of some Knowledge of Good and Evil yet of being kept as Innocent from the Evil as in their Sucking-days by their Thoughts being entertain'd upon the Subject their hands are imploy'd in when not upon the Instruction their Tutors shall give them suitable to their Age and so forward til l they come to a stronger Judgment How readily then will they receive the Council of God when their Regular and Innocent Education hath given their Spirits the Nature of the good Ground neither High-way nor Stony And a Child thus bred will not readily depart from it when he is Old But few private Persons have the Conveniencies Leisure and Capacity of giving their Children an Exact Education at Home such as have Instructions usually wanting suitable Imployment and such as have Imployment often wanting Instructions so that the Subject is indispensably the Churches Care and worth their Modelling Now as a further Preface to what may be said for an Industrious Education of Children I recommend to your Consideration my Printed Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry John Bellers Dear Friends WE having Perused and Considered a Discourse lately Published by our Friend John Bellers for the better Education of Youth and Ampler Provision for the Poor the Care of whom Friends were Particularly Exhorted to by the last Yearly Meeting we Recommend the said Book to your Consideration as believing it may be of Use for those good Ends if one House or Colledge for a beginning were set on foot with a joint Stock by the Friends of Estates through the Nation William Penn Charles Marshall Leonard Fell John Vaughton Francis Stamper Elias Osborne Joshua Middleton Oliver Sansom Thomas Gillpin Richard Asheby John Boulton Richard Watson Robert Barclay Nathaniel Owen Clement Plumsted William Robinson Josiah Garton Peregrine Musgrave John Harwood Thomas Ellwood William Crouch John Edge Richard Vickris James Wass Cornelius Mason Nathaniel Markes Henry Gouldney Richard Dymond Francis Plumsteed Robert Ruddle Thomas Dell. Abel Wilkinson Thomas Mincks Edward Wright John Tomkins John Knight Reuben Linskile John Freame Benjamin Ewer Robert Fairman John Hodgskins John Light John Bawne Richard Cook John Haddon London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street 1697.