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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05738	The Christian mans closet Wherein is conteined a large discourse of the godly training vp of children: as also of those duties that children owe vnto their parents, made dialogue wise, very pleasant to reade, and most profitable to practise, collected in Latin by Bartholomew Batty of Alostensis. And nowe Englished by William Lowth.; De oeconomia Christiana. English.	Batt, Barthélemy, 1515-1559.; Lowth, William. fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 1591; ESTC S101091	168,239	212

ought to be in this that their youth be taught the true knowledge and woorship of God euen from their yong and tender yeeres according to the saying of that woorthie man Ioannes Caesarens written in these verses Si Christum bene scis satis est si caetera nescis Si Christum nescis nil est quod caetera discis It is best to know Christ though in other things thou faile For know all thinges without Christ and what shal it preuaile Theophilus Cannot then the knowledge of artes and sciences profit without the true knowledge of God Theodidactus A yong man to be well seene in all the sciences it profiteth nothing if he be not a regenerate christian indued with vertues and gentle behauiour wherefore first he must be taught the knowledg of God and exercised in the holy scriptures out of the which he may learne the true woorship of God Theophilus The common people now adayes are not of that minde for they think that they haue doone well with their children if they haue taught them but a litle good maners though they haue no knowledge of God or godlines at al. Theodidactus These mē truely are farre deceiued for the foundatiō of godlines must be laide in the beginning whilest he is yet a child y e he may know himself how weak euil he is by the pronenesse of his owne nature so y ● he is not h●ng neither can he or is able to doe any thing without the help of God therfore he must cal v●ō him in true faith y ● very oftē not to trust y ● he cā bring any thing to passe without his assistaunce Thus may you easily sée the great blindnesse of the 〈…〉 on people that are altogether deceiued in their iudgement and estimation of things And againe that God is almighty whom they ought to feare their creator and preseruer whom they ought to honor the giuer ●f al good things to whom they ought to render continual thanks for so great and innumerable benefites that reconciled vs vnto himself when we were his enimies by the death and passion of his déerely beloued sonne Iesus Christ for the which we ought to loue him with al our heart mind soule and strength these and such like documents must be carefully inst●lled into their minde whilest they are yet children Theophilus Without doubt it maketh a great matter in what kinde of studie this first age is exercised For as Horace saith Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem test a diu The new vessel wil sauour long of the first licour if it be strong Theodidactus Therfore my friēd Theophilus we must haue great care regard y ● the vessels of these yong minds be not seasoned w t the vaine opinions of this world but with the chief principal pointes of the christian faith wherby they might be exercised in christian godlines learn to know Christ For what griefe can be greater then to haue deformed childrē altogether boyd of vertue godlines Wheras if they would imploy their chief● care diligence to haue them wel godly taught in their tender ye●●s then should they be sure to haue them comely vertuous and godly when they attaine to 〈…〉 re riper yéeres Theophilus We must needs beleue persuide ourselues that good education is very necessary for children but no we woulde wee bee glad to heare what chiefely they are to be taught Theodidactus The most holie things are first to be taught vnto children and déepely ingrauen setled in their mindes lest they be first infected with any pestilent errours And they must be instructed verie often what difference is betwéene Hercules and Sardanapalus the learned and vnlearned a wise man and a foole Theophilus I pray you shewe vs the difference Theodidactus Although the Poets Heathen writers haue fained that there be many Gods and haue lyed yet our youth are to be admonished that they cōstantly beléeue that there is but one God omnipotent eternall incomprehensible without beginning without ending louing gentle pacient mercifull which knoweth all thinges ●eeth all things gouerneth disposeth all things the which also is true iust and terrible Theophilus How shal our youth cōprehend beleue that ther is but one only God Theodidactus They may know it by thrée thinges chiefly First by the cōtemplation of naturall thinges Secondly by the holie scriptures in the which God maketh himselfe manifest vnto vs. Thirdly by the spirite of God drawing vs. Theophilus What these thinges meane I pray you declare more at large Theodidactus Heauen earth and all things conteined in them as the Sunne Moone Stars fire water fruits fishes foules al the beasts of the earth doe sufficiently teach that there is one God And againe the children must be taught of the Parents that they meditate studie in the law of God that therout they may learne the knowledge of the true God And lastly that they submit them selues vnto the spirite of trueth mouing and drawing them Theophilus The Creede of the holy Apostles Nicaene and Athanasius doeth teach that God is a Trinitie Are our youthes to bee taught the same or not Theodidactus Yea alwayes for albeit there is but one God yet are there thrée distinct persons The Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost And therefore this must be taught faithfully vnto children least they become Arrians or Anabaptistes Theophilus What should children be taught more Theodidactus Also children ought to beléeue that God loueth them seeth them careth for them defendeth deliuereth and heareth them when they cal vpon him in their perils and necessities that he hath giuen his Sonne for them that our only saluation is in Christ Iesus And againe that there is one Catholike Church in the which God doeth most louingly pardon sinnes to those that doe truely cōfesse the same are penitent and repose their whole trust and confidence in the merites of Christ his passion Lastly they shal teach their children constantly to beleeue the resurrection of the dead in she which who so hath done good shall enioy euerlasting life and they that haue done euill shall be throwne into euerlasting fire Theophilus Good and prouident husbandmen before they sowe their fieldes with great choice doe weigh and consider what maner seede agreeth best to euerie field For that for the most part they cast into seuerall fieldes seueral graines that by such meanes they may receiue the more fruitfull haruest and reaping If husbandmen deale after this manner with their groundes much more ought godly Parents to weigh and consider what maner seede ought to be sowne as it were in the most conuenient soyle in the mindes of children that at length it may bring foorth worthy men in godlines and profitable to the Church of Christ Theodidactus Surely you reason verie wisely for the diligent care and labour of the husbandmen ought to moue vs to the diligent