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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46347	Hooinh egzainiomnh, or, A treatise of holy dedication both personal and domestick the latter of which is (in special) recommended to the citizens of London, upon their entring into their new habitations / by Tho. Jacomb ...	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1668 (1668)	Wing J118; ESTC R31675	234,541	539

'T is as great an affliction as can befall a godly man to see children such as have been religiously trained up by him to take sinful courses but if he can make comfortable reflections upon his practise that he hath not been accessary to this that it proceeds from the child's wickedness not from his omitting of good education this will much tend to his support and to the alleviation of his grief and burden Many a good Parent had sunk under this cross if he had not had this to bear him up You also by this may do much good to your children 'T is the most effectual and the most probable way to further their spiritual and eternal good Good Education is a great thing In his excellent Treatise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 5. Plutarch says 'T is the E 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is the first the middle the last in order to the setting of youth right you cannot expect either moral or spiritual goodness without this O the power and virtue of Religious Education when 't is sanctify'd The earth often proves according to the seed that is first cast into it The vessel retains the tincture of that with which 't is first seasoned Plutarch in loco prius eitat Lycurgus set it forth by an allusion of two doggs the one of which was bred up to the Trencher the other to Hunting which made a very great difference in them as he exemplify'd it before the Lacedemonians to show the power of Education Persons are very much when they are grown up according to the breeding that they had in their tender Age A child well educated makes a goodman and so è contrà What is imprinted upon one in his education usually 't is very permanent As in the place forecited Train up a child in the way he should go Prov. 22.6 and when he is old he will not depart from it What blessings might Parents prove to their children what excellent things might be effected by them if they did but take the advantage of their tender years and then set themselves to bring them into God Mr. Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest Part 3. ch 14. Sect. 11. p. 350. I do verily believe saith a Reverend Author that if Parents did their duty as they ought the word publickly preached would not be the ordinary means of Regeneration in the Church but only without the Church among Infidels c. God would pour out his Grace so upon the children of his people and hear prayers for them and bless such endeavours for their holy Education that we should see the Promises made good to our seed and the unthankeful Anabaptists that will not confess that the children of Saints are any nearer God or more beholden to him than Pagans so much as for the favour to be visible church-Church-members should by sweet experience be convinced of their error and be taught better how to understand that our children are holy Nay thirdly by this you would do much good to publick Societies whether they be Religious or Civil Both Church and State are great gainers by good Education what excellent members would the Church have if you did but do what lies upon you in private As the Orchard is according to what the nursery is according to the usual similitude So Churches are according to what Families are Good Families make good Churches and good Education makes good Families How smoothly readily would Church-work go on if Masters of Families did but do their duty as the building goes on apace when the materials are prepared before hand Cities and Kingdoms too gain by this and it must needs be so for what are they but the whole made up of these parts The whole is such as the parts are of which it consists and so Kingdoms and Cities are what particular Houses are therefore Aristotle defines the former thus They are Societies made up of many Families and Houses put together Families are but like the book in loose sheets and Kingdoms like the book bound up the one but like Letters that are single and apart the other like Letters joyned together Now if the sheets be not good or the Letters not good the book or writing cannot be good neither The Lacedemonians made a Law Charron of VVisd lib. 3. c. 14. that when Children did amiss their Parents should be punished because they judg'd their neglect of Education was the cause of this which tended so much to the detriment and prejudice of the Common-wealth O if you neglect your duty you fill the Nation with corrupt and ulcerous and useless members whereas upon the doing of it you make your Houses good Seminaries both for Church and State Would you have a good Kingdom make those good who are under your charge Would you have a good City look to the educating of those who are related to you The way to have the City clean is for every man to sweep before his own door and so 't is in the matter I am upon Let us have the best Magistrates let them make the best Laws and back them with the best execution yet Societies will be naught so long as Parents and Masters do not do their duty in Religious Education Nay fourthly By this you do good to Posterity for hereby you keep up Religion in the World and propagate it from age to age The Papists speak much of their Oral Tradition by which they say Truth hath been conveyed downwards all along from the Apostles days the present generation handing it down to the next and so on from generation to generation Surely 't is the duty of Parents to perpetuate and convey Religion from age to age and how shall this be done but by Religious Education 'T is said of Abel Haec est vera Cabbala i. e. Traditio per manus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quando Patres filiis tradunt admonitiones c. sed hujusmodi quae aedificent c. Pet. Mart. in Gen 18.19 Being dead he yet speaketh Heb. 11.4 O if you would but rightly train up your Children being dead you would yet speaks you seasoned them and they season theirs and so Religion is transmitted and kept up in the World by your means although you your selves be dead and gone Is not this glorious service upon your not minding of Education you are the instruments of keeping up Sin Atheism Ignorance c. in the world but by your sincerity and faithfulness in this you are Instruments to continue and promote the fear of God Piety Holiness Faith from age to age Thirdly Consider Motive 3 the mischievous and sad effects that follow upon the neglect of Education They are so so many they cannot well be numbered up and so evil they cannot sufficiently be bewailed Good Lord how are Children and Servants spoiled and lost for want of this as ground proves mossy and full of weeds for want of culture and of being manur'd in time The Tree that