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A51033	The way to true honour and happiness A friendly address to all parents, masters of families, and landlords, the persons most capable to honour ... , and to gain honour to themselves, by beginning and carrying on a rational reformation. To which is added, [A] memorandum for mothers. By John Mitchell, M.A.	Mitchell, John, fl. 1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing M2287B; ESTC R221889	23,817	48

but Enemies to God Psal. 58. 3. Rom. 5. 10. But the depraved and corrupted Nature in Children appears in several particulars 1. They are altogether ignorant and destitute of Knowledge a thick cloud of darkness overspreads their Understanding Eph. 4. 18. They are wholly unacquainted with the natural as well as the positive Law of God and unwilling to use means or take pains to know the same 2. Pride and Self-conceit appears very early in them they love to be flattered to be called good and pretty they are apt to value 〈…〉 emselves upon account of their great or rich 〈…〉 ents their fine Ornaments or gay Cloath● c. Now Pride is said to be the first sin 〈…〉 he Devil and is most contrary to the na 〈…〉 e of God and abominable in his sight 〈…〉 Pet. 5. 5. 3. All know how Children are generally in●ined to Lying Dissimulation and Falshood 〈…〉 ich plainly shews that they have too much 〈…〉 the Nature and Image of him who is the 〈…〉 ther of Lyes Io. 8. 44. 4. All their Passions and Affections are cor●pted and distempered and far from that 〈…〉 nd which was in the Lord Jesus and must 〈…〉 in every Disciple of his before they can 〈◊〉 saved Phil. 2. 5. Io. 3. 3. Mat. 18. How 〈…〉 ward are Children to Anger Hatred Ma●e Envy Revenge Quarreling Fighting 〈…〉 enging themselves on those that wrong 〈…〉 m domineering over those they can Con●er How much are they inclined to sensual 〈…〉 tish Pleasures Vanity Folly and Trifling 〈…〉 w prone are they to Fretting Murmuring 〈…〉 ishness and Discontent if their Humours 〈◊〉 not pleased and their Appetites satisfied 〈◊〉 these are plain indications that their na●e is wholly Evil and directly contrary to 〈◊〉 innocent patient meek humble and holy 〈…〉 ure which appeared in our Lord Jesus 〈…〉 rist Mat. 11. 29. 1 Pet. 2. 21 22 23. 5. That Faculty the Will is basely 〈…〉 rupted and and depraved which plainly appears in Children by their Stubbornness Perverseness Wilfulness Untractableness Unplyableness and Disobedience If Childrens Will were not restrained by something without them they would soon run into Ruine 6. Their Memory that Treasury of the Soul is corrupted and vitiated How soon do they forget good Instructions Admonitions and Advices yea their own Promises and Resolutions How apt are they to remember Trifles Folly Play and Vanity 7. Their continuing in this black and miserable State when they come to years their willingness to squander away time in idleness play or wickedness and their backwardness to go to School to yield or hearken to the instructions of Parents and Teachers their unwillingness to go to Church and their unattentiveness there doth plainly declare That they are not only under the dominion of Sin and Satan but that they are willing Slaves to that ●oul Spirit and delight to do the Devil's Drudgery rather than to serve the high and holy God in Spirit and Truth Doth not all this shew that Children have need of early Care and diligent Education Now if you Parents patiently permit them to run on in their natural Course and do not timely and diligently use means to convert and reclaim them you consent to their Sin and Wickedness and declare your willingness tha● they be miserable for ever But if you en●ourage them in their Vices and smile upon 〈…〉 eir Follies if you feed their Lusts and please 〈…〉 eir Humours if you give them their Will 〈…〉 nd approve their Cunning if you pamper and 〈…〉 eck their Bodies put Mony in their Pockets 〈…〉 ovide Portions for them to feed their sensual 〈…〉 esires then you forward their Damnation 〈…〉 ou side with Satan to make them miserable 〈…〉 d you put Weapons in their hands whereby 〈…〉 ey may rebel against the King of Heaven Tho' you do not think this nor believe it 〈…〉 hen it is told you yet your Practice speaks it 〈…〉 d the Event often declares it And it is not 〈…〉 obable that you can be acquitted when you 〈…〉 tribute so much to the condemnation of 〈…〉 ur Children Many of you complain much of your Chil●ens Ignorance Negligence Idleness Diso 〈…〉 dience and Extravangancy Truly when I 〈…〉 sider their Education I nothing wonder 〈…〉 t they walk in the way which they have 〈…〉 en accustomed to and obey that Master whose 〈…〉 ice they love best Ier. 13. 23. Io. 8. 44. If your Children prove your cross and af 〈…〉 tion blame your selves who are the prin 〈…〉 al Causes by neglecting timely Instruction 〈…〉 prudent Correction and perhaps by gi 〈…〉 g them bad Example And if you smart 〈…〉 der the Rod of your own preparing and 〈…〉 serving do not complain but seriously re 〈…〉 t and speedily amend For as you are the Causes of your Childrens Being so should you be of their Well-being as you contribute to their natural life so should you to their spiritual As God has made them yours by natural Generation so should you endeavour to make them his by vertuous and religious Education They are a Trust committed to your Charge by our heavenly Father who will surely call you to account As for you whose Children have more Years than Vertue and do follow their own Will more than the Will of God I leave you to the advice of Spiritual Guides or Civil Magistrates according to the Command Deut. 21. 18. But as for you who have or may have young Children be careful to observe these Rules and you may easily rule them and reap good Fruit and Comfort for your Labour 1. Speak Truth and no Lies to your Children that is whatever you teach them see that you practice it your selves otherwise they will not believe that you are in earnest nor listen to your Dictates Few words will suffice where there is a continual good Example Therefore let every Christian Duty as well as Moral Vertue be your daily Practice 2. Love your Children prudently and do not hate them effectually Fond and foolish love proves to be the greatest hatred Prov. 13. 24. Away with that fond and foolish hurtful and childish Flattering Hugging Caressing and Dandling of Children that is usual which lessens your Authority tickles their Fancy and feeds their Folly Make not Idols of your Children they are God's gifts make them not his Rivals set them not up in his Throne lest he pull them down and punish you either by taking them from you or making them your cross and scourge Therefore love your Children piously and let the Fruits and Effects of it appear in promoting their spiritual Good 3. Feed but do not poison your Children God has given them sive Senses but has left it to you to regulate the Objects Let them neither see nor hear any thing that may corrupt their Mind or Fancy Do not poison their Eyes with seeing any base wicked or foolish Action till they be fortified against it and capable to reprove and abhor it Do not poison