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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

1915 LAURISTON · CASTLE William Robert Reid 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 For I know him Abraham that he will Command his Children and his Household after him and they shall keep the Way of the LORD to do Justice and Judgement that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him Gen 18.19 Edinburgh Printed by John Reid in the Year M.DC.XCV Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth while the evil dayes come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them Eccles 12.1 THE TRANSLATOR TO THE Christian Reader THAT the Education of Children is of vast Moment and Consequence will I doubt not be readily acknowledged by all The truth is the Injunctions given to Parents on this score in Holy Scripture are so frequent and so solemn and the Advantages of a good Education are so many and so Valuable that no thinking Persons can be insensible of the Importance of it But in the mean time it is sad to observe that this great Concern is as universally either wholly neglected or but superficially and trifflingly mannaged as the Importance of it seems to be universally acknowledged Some Parents indulge themselves in a wretched and unnatural carelesness as to the Education of their Children Some are ignorant of the true Measures of accomplishing it And others do adopt and steer their course by either false or imperfect Maxims It is certain that Christians ought to madnage the Education of their Children according to the Prescripts of the Christian Religion This is the Blessed Magazin or Storehouse out of which they must take Tools and Materials for rendring their Souls agreeable to GOD and preparing them for the Glories of Eternity This is the Doctrine to use the Apostles Phrase Into which they must be delivered This is the Mould on which they must be Formed And hence must the Salt be fetched that ought to season these tender Hearts Young Ones must be timeously taught To determine to know nothing but JESUS CHRIST and Him Crucified 1 Cor. 2.2 The Example of His Holy Life His Cross His Sufferings and Death and conformity to Him in these and all other things are very seriously to be recommended to them They must be train'd up in the Love of self-denyal contempt of the World and resignation to the will of GOD. The Excellencie delightfulness and and necessity of these practices are to be carefully represented to them They must be early acquainted with the straite narrow way the way of the Cross of Sufferings and of Mortification as a way that 's Lovely pleasant and full of peace and comfort and leading unto Life Eternal They are further to be made sensible of the great Corruption of human nature of the necessity of the Spirit and Grace of Jesus Christ in order to Enlighten purifie heal the dark unclean and diseased Souls of Men The Spirit courses and practises of the wicked World as also the Motions Inclinations the Lusts and Passions of depraved nature must be defamed and disparaged to them For these prompt to the pursute of Carnal Ease and pleasure of self-satisfaction and vanity of Riches and Plenty of Honour and Greatness Which desires are unsuitable to a state of tryal such as is our condition in this World and in which we are oblidged to persevering and patient labour and watching fighting and wrestling running striving In a word to educate Children Christianly is to Disciple them to the Holy JESUS and to oblidge them to trace the foot-steps of their dear Redeemer to conform to so Divine a Patern in every thing to learn of him to be Meek lowly in heart to take his easy pleasant Yoke upon them and so they shall find rest to their Souls These are great and Noble things and such as are very proper to be instiled into young Hearts as soon as possible that so from their Infancie they may learn to know CHRIST and the power of his Resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his Death * Phil 3.10 These are things that Books which pretend to give an account of the Measures of a Chrishian Education should especially point at and direct unto And I cannot but look on it as an essential defect in Treatises of this nature when such matters as these are either not at all touched or but little and slightly insisted on in them The little tract that follows having accidentally or rather by a happy providence fallen into my hands I was after a serious and deliberate perusal soon convinced That it did not fall short of its Title that is that in my opinion it solidly judiciously layes down the great foundamental Principles of a Pious and Christian Education And this conviction prompted me for the common Good of Mankind to attempt a Translation of it being assured that in doing this I would do a considerable service and kindness to all serious and well disposed hearts I have endeavoured to put the Translation in as plain and simple a dress of Language and to keep as near the Original as possibly I could and without making any additions save only that for the benefit of the Reader I have presented him on the Margent With a brief and summary view of the Contents of each Section I perswade my self that all conscientious Parents and Instructers of Youth all that are tender of their own and their Childrens Spiritual concerns and Eternal Salvation will look on it as a very Fortunate rencountre that a Book is put in their hands which furnishes them with Excellent Advices for mannaging this Great Trust and that in a way that is Easie Familiar and Compendious and suited to the Capacities of all that are of Honest Candid and Serious Dispositions It is true none are here to expect to be taught the Rules of Civility Or to be instructed in the method of attaining Languages and Humane Learning No this was not in the Authors View Neither could he design it it being indeed wholly Forraign to the Concerns of a Christian Education All that is pretended to be done in this Performance is to affoord the best Directions for Fashioning and Dressing the Souls of Young Ones in order to partake in the Glories of Eternity This is the Butt and Mark at which a Christian Education should especially Level and all the directions that are offered should be suited and accomodated to this great end the measures here prescribed have visibly this Character being indeed the great essentials the Marrow and Substance of the Gospel which are here recommended first to the serious consideration and

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