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B04766	The true principles of the Christian education of children briefly and plainly declared and recommended to parents and all others concerned in the institution of youth. Very profitable for all sorts of persons, as containing the great and fundamental truths and duties of the Christian religion. / Translated from the second edition of the original French.	Poiret, Pierre, 1646-1719.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2743A; ESTC R181913	49,118	130

man turning all his desires and his will towards his GOD GOD should fill his mind with his Divine knowledge and his Soul with His Joy and with His Felicitie and Eternal Glory but man having turned away his desire and his will from GOD and so having rendred his mind ignorant and his Soul unhappy and miserable for Eternitie GOD did assume our humane nature and live and die amongst us not only to merit for us the pardon of our wickedness and the Divine Grace but also to demonstrate unto us by his Doctrine and by the examples of his Life of his Death and of his Resurrection how we ought to renounce our evil desires to forsake and make to cease and die our own will and to resume new and Divine desires a will Holy and living unto GOD the which the Holy Spirit imparts unto the soul together with an illuminated Vnderstanding and a Divine Peace and Joy whereby we are reunited with all that which is Holy as well on Earth as in Heaven enjoying in this Holy Society and Communion the Spiritual Grace and benefites of JESUS CHRIST here in time to the end that after the death of the body and then after its Resurrection we may live together Eternalie and Gloriously with GOD. § 46. 2. A second thing which we ought to oblige them particularly to remember 46. 2. Another thing they must be made seriously to observe is the conversation of Jesus Christ in our humanitie as designed for our imitation is how JESUS CHRIST in His Birth in His Actions in His Life and His Death hath managed and conducted the faculties of his Soul and particularly his desires and his Will as well in turning them from evil from the natural inclinations of our mortal humanitie from the esteem of himself from the search of pleasures of the commodities and good things of this World by self denyal by disgrace by lowness by povertie by sufferings and an unrepining acquiescence in all as in turning and yeelding unto GOD these same Desires and will of his not desiring any thing but GOD doing nothing but his Divine will in every thing and adhering alwayes to him by praises and continual Prayer by which his Vnderstanding obtained all the Divine Lights which he demanded of his Father in whose good pleasure he also placed all his Joy 47. They must be taught that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost mentioned in the Belief are but one GOD and that this Glorious mystry is incomprehensible § 47. We may in the third place on the subject of the Holy Trinity tell them in a few words that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost whereof mention is made in the Belief and in the Scripture are not but One only and the same GOD as in us to give some resemblance of this great Mystrie the desire the understanding and the Joy or pleasure of the Soul are but one only Soul and not three That the difference that is among them doth not hinder the Unity of the Divine Nature which is the same and one in all but that this difference is such in GOD that no reason nor humane light neither can nor ought to endeavour to comprehend it That we must believe it with reverence on the Testimony of the word of GOD without knowing it otherwayes waiting untill it please GOD to make us see something of it that will be more clear whether in this life or the other and in the mean time contenting our selves to represent unto us according to our weak capacity GOD the Father as the Author of all good things the Father and Just Judge of our Souls GOD the Son as the Redeemer of the World and the inlightener of our Souls that are ignorant and fallen into darkness and the Holy Spirit as GOD the Sanctifier of hearts and filling with the love of GOD the Souls which had been corrupted by self-love and by sin Or yet moreover GOD the Father as good and the principle of goodness who hath Created all things by the communication of his goodness GOD the Son as Just and the principle of Justice who was incarnat to render us Just who were made unjust by sin GOD the Holy Ghost as the principle of Truth who opens and who illuminates the mind that it may comprehend the truth of Spiritual and Divine things 48. What it is to know the Holy Trinity in a Divine saving maneer § 48. In fine they ought to be made remember on this occasion that the true knowledge of Divine things depends on the living operations of the Holy Spirit in the inward man as hath been already asserted and consequently that the knowledge of the Holy Trinity to the end that it may be Divine and saving must be produced by him in us after the same manner And such it shall certainly be if this knowledge issues in a living representation of the most Holy Trinitie after the image of which we were likewise Created as also if the same knowledge terminates and results in the love and imitation of GOD so vigorously recommended by St. Paul Be ye followers of GOD as being his dear Children and walk in love even as CHRIST hath loved us Eph. 5.1 2. For every one that loveth saith St. John is born of GOD and knoweth GOD But he that loveth not knoweth not GOD nor consequently the Holy Trinity for GOD is love 1 Joh 4.7 8. So that whosoever saith that he knoweth JESVS CHRIST and keepeth not his Commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him saith the same Apostle Chap 2. V. 4. So then an infallible mark that we truely know the Holy Trinity and that we confess savingly the Father the Creator the good and the powerful is when we love him with fear obedience and respect when we confidently resign our selves to his Power and divine providence and when we represent and follow his Goodness towards all and in every thing We know and confess savingly the Son the Redeemer and the Just one when we live as being delivered by him from this present evil world Gal 1.4 And when we give up our selves to the practice of Righteousness 1 Joh 2.29 And we know and confess savingly the Holy Spirit the Sanctifier and the Spirit of Truth when we give up our selves to Holiness without which none shall see nor consequently ever know livingly the LORD Heb. 12.14 And when we follow the truth in Love Eph. 4.15 Such a knowledge of the Holy Trinity as this is is not an ideal operation of our Humane Reason but a true and real production of the Holy Spirit since the fruits of the Spirit saith St. Paul are goodness Righteousness and Truth Eph. 5.9 But when we reject either all these things or even some of them we do then in effect deny GOD and his Divine Trinity which we do not confess but with the mouth only or by some vain and dead acts of barren reason so as the

pride our vanity in one word our old man of which we ought to demand from the LORD the ruine and extermination otherwise we should change the Psalms into pernicious poyson in applying the Imprecations that are in them to our Neighbour whom we ought to love We may also very profitably imploy the Imprecations of the Psalms and the ardent Prayer that are there made that GOD would confound destroy and root out our enemies against the evil spirits our mortal and invisible enemies who as St. Peter sayes Go round about us like roaring Lions seeking to devour us 1 Pet. 5 8. And who by their fiery darts Eph. 6.16 That is to say by their villanous inspirations endeavour to kindle in us all sorts of wicked desires and sinful inclinations that they may make us perish eternally When we find our selves tempted to evil especially when it is against our will these sorts of Psalms and Prayers against the tempter and enemie of our Souls come in very seasonably and are the true weapons of our defence § 24. 24. Parents must make up the defects and weaknesses of Infancie by their own serious Piety and Devotions for which GOD will be sure to reward them and bless their Off-spring In fine because that Young Ones have as yet their Faculties almost all asleep and but very little Active it will be necessary here that their Parents come to their Assistance and supply their Impotency and all these duties as well in turning from evil their own desires as in offering alwayes to GOD in behalf of their Children these same Holy desires and these true and genuine Prayers whereof we have spoken For GOD accepting then the desires of Fathers and Mothers in Name and behalf of and as coming from their Children and being willing to recompense the Piety of the Parents He will not fail to answer them by the saving Operations of his Good Spirit on the hearts of all their posterity and so Shewing Mercy unto thousand Generations of those that love Him Exod 20 6. 25. The sad Consequences of not beginning the Education of young Ones from the Improvement of their desire § 25. The Improvement of the Desire or of the heart of Young Ones is a point so fundamental and so essential to their Good Education that if we either absolutely neglect this or if we do not begin their Instruction by it but by things which only concern their Understanding we cannot choose but miserably ruine their Souls in leaving in them and even planting in them by this negligence the fatall seeds of Irreligion of Spiritual carelesness of forgetfulness and disrespect of GOD of vanity of pride in a word of death Eternal Notwithstanding this is it whereof Men do but little think The whole World saith St. John lyeth in wickedness and that we may not be conform to the miserable World in this point it can be never enough recommended to those who would educat their Children Christianly not so much to cultivat their mind as to make their heart 1. Pious towards GOD. 2. Humble in themselves 3 Meek and Charitable towards their Neighbour And 4. Content with regard to all that which may happen them and which may be done unto them On such a Foundation as this GOD builds great things and even takes in his Hand the whole conduct of the Soul § 26. 11. 26. 11. Truth that is God his word works the object of our Vnderstanding The second and the principal of the Faculties of our Souls is the power of Knowing or our Vnderstanding It hath been made for the Truth that is to say for God himself who is the Truth and for his Word and his Works which are the streams of this Soveraign and Original Truth § 27. 27. The consequences of this And so we ought not to desire to know any thing but God and that which he hath said and done for His Glory 28. 1. Consequence a lie and whatever is contrary to Truth depraves the Vnderstanding and must not be induced in Children § 28. 1. And therefore falshood or a lye which is opposite to Truth is the most abominable of all things because it corrupts and perverts the most noble of the Faculties of our Soul we ought not to tolerat it in the least in young ones nor suffer them to unpunished when they bewray in any measure this diabolical enormity the devil being which is the first and chief of all his qualities a liar and the father of lies saith the Scripture 29. 2. We must not stuff our minds with the knowledge of useless things but seasonably check our vain curiositie § 29. 2. For the same reason we ought not to apply our selves to the knowledge of the unprofitable discourses vanities inventions cnimeras and fictions and the deeds of vain and corrupted Men we must betimes resist curiositie and distraction which fill the mind with obscuritie and darkness and render it insensible and unsuitable to solid Truth and to the Light of God how great a loss it is to fill with dirt and impurities a precious vessel which was made for no other end but to lodge and contain God and his most pure Lights which are incompatible with the impure fictions of the depraved minds of corrupted and worldly men § 30. 30. How the faculty of knowing is exercised in Man The faculty of knowing is exercised in Man 1. By the Vnderstanding or the Pure Mind 2. By reason 3. By the Imagination assisted by the Senses especially these of Seeing and Hearing § 31. 1. 31. 1. The Vnderstanding since the Fall is blind as to Divine things GOD only can cure this blindness of both which Young Ones must be early made sensible The Vnderstanding or the Pure Mind which is designed for Divine Things is intirely shut up in all men since the entrance of sin We are and are born all blind as to Divine Things and it is God only that is able to heal to open and to enlighten the eye of our Soul so as to capacitat us to know Spiritual Things As we could not see nor know the Sun the Earth the Trees nor the other things of this World if GOD had not given us bodily eyes So neither can we able ever to know the things of GOD if he do not restore to our Soul its Spiritual Eves which it hath broken and which GOD doth not reim part no● open but to those only whose Heart i● withdrawn from sin and inclined and carried to good This ought to be inculcate on al● from their Infancy to the end that the mind may tend betimes towards GOD and that by the Goodness of its Desires and Purity of Heart it may be disposed for his Divine Light For GOD doth not discover his Secrets but to such as fear to do evil and he gives not his Light but to those who will make a good use of it as David who said to him Give me O

years let us endeavour to discover in a manner suited to their Capacity That is by an easie and significant Comparison how they ought to carry in this Affair We must consider GOD and His Grace under the notion of a vast Treasure and remark how a Man would do with a Treasure in different Circumstances and Rencounters When one possesses an immense Treasure fully and without danger of losing it any more his Joy is then wholly pure and perfect This it is that the Joys of the Blessed are since they possess GOD after this manner that is without any fear or danger of ever losing Him But when one doth possess such a● Treasure but imperfectly and that every moment he may lose it as well by the malice of an infinitie of most cunning and perpetually restless enemies as by his own Actions by his negligence and by his presumption it is evident that the Joy which one hath in these Circumstances ought to be tempered with a most serious Fear This is it which even the best must do during this Life with respect to the Treasure of Divine Grace Hence St. Paul exhorting the Saints of Philippi to rejoyce in the LORD doth with the same breath enjoyn them To work out their Salvation with fear and trembling Phil 2.12 And St. Peter having commended in those who had a firm and steadie Faith in Jesus Christ That they rejoyced in Him with Joy unspeakable represents unto them that since he whom they invock as their Father shall also be their Judge and will tender unto them even as to all others according to their works and without having respect to the difference of persons they ought therefore to live in fear during the time that they sojourn on earth 1 Pet 1.17 And the Holy Ghost sayes on the same head That Blessed is he who feareth alwayes Prov 25.14 But if we after having lost this great Treasure by our own fault do see and possess nothing in its room but poverty and miseries but that nevertheless a promise should be made to us of having it again restored providing that we be sensibly touched with its loss and that afterwards we do manage our selves well in every thing that shall be intrusted to us there is then indeed very good Reason to rejoyce in this Hope though in the mean time we ought not to be less afflicted with the fault and with the loss of the time past and with the present miserie and desolation Neither ought we to be without a Holy Fear with respect to the time to come from the consideration of our own weakness and skillessless to govern our selves well This is it that we must still do with respect to GOD and His Divine Graces David sayes that when he thought on his sins and that he had lost his GOD he did nothing but lament and weep both day and night Psal 6.32.38.42 c. And GOD protests that He will not communicate himself to any but to those who shall have an Afflicted Heart for having lost him a contrite Spirit for having offended Him and who tremble at His Words fearing least they should not continue faithful to them To this man saith he will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite Spirit and trembleth at my Word Isa 66.2 And Jesus Christ saith very expresly that Consolation shall be given to those that Weep namely for their own sins and for the sins of others and he pronounces them Blessed Math 5.5 But when without these wholesome Precautions we would have nothing but feelings of Joy and Gladness this Joy becomes then easily the Nest of Self-love the ground of Self-satisfaction and the intertainment of a Blindness which hiding from us the greatness of our corruption hinders us from making enquirie after its cure and which makes us carnally presume that we possess the Divine Riches because that we perswade our selves that we have them though notwithstanding we are far removed from them as may be seen in the Church of Loadicea who being wholly content with it self and with its own state did say so presumptuously I am rich and increased in goods and have lake of nothing Whereas alas Jesus Christ in the mean time replyes to her But thou knowest not that thou art wretched miserable poor naked and blind Rev 3.17 And in his Gospel Luke 6.24 Denounces Woe and Famine mourning and tears against the Rich and the full that is who fancy themselves to be such without any just ground and against those inconsiderate wretches whom St. James calls upon to feel their miseries to weep and to lament to change their Laughter into tears and their Joyes into sadness James 4.9 Without which the Wise Man sayes That the hard and insensible heart shall fall into mischief Prov 28.14 And therefore it is an Effect of a Divine Wisdom to know well how to temper our Joy with fear and our sadness with Joy The Fear of the LORD is the beginning of Wisdom saith David and elsewhere Happy is the man that fears the LORD and that delighteth greatly in His Commandments Psal 111. and 112. The same Prophet advises those who would have either the Grace or the Glory of Jesus Christ exhibited unto them to set about it with a submission mingled with Fear and with Joy Serve the LORD with Fear and rejoyce with Trembling Psal ● 11 Whereas the false Prophets do nothing else but speak indistinctly and solely of Joy Peace and Assurance Ezek 13.16 c. 1 Thes 5.3 § 16. IV. 61. IV. the Divine Faculties of the Soul are well ordered action easily and naturallie follows but it must not be suspended till that be done since outward exercises have a good influence on the inward man When the Faculties of Vnderstanding Joy and Desire are set Right and well fashioned all the rest follows of its own accord But since it is necessary that we be active and doing even before that the inward man be yet well disposed and that moreover the inward man is ordinarly aided by the Outward it is needful to have at hand some particular Rules for Action and for the Conduct and Mannagement of the Outward Conversation § 62. Our bodies and our life belonging of Right to GOD 62. The General rule of action laid down seriously recommended and illustrated by some particular instances we must dispose of them not according to our own will but according to his Since our will is naturalie turned towards our selves towards our advantages towards our Honour and towards our pleasure and therefore doth beget in us the mortal vices of avarice Pride and sensuality which obstruct in us the operations of GOD and Rob us of the Salvation of our Souls we must in order to root them up practise self-denyal in every thing and we must be at pains to accustom Children betimes and as much as possibly we can with the Divine aid to do every thing by a Spirit of Charity and for the good of