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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62640	Six sermons I. Stedfastness in religion. II. Family-religion. III. IV. V. Education of children. VI. The advantages of an early piety : preached in the church of St. Lawrence Jury in London / by ... John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.; Sermons. Selections	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1268A; ESTC R218939	82,517	218

the weeding of Corn which is a necessary piece of good Husbandry Vices like ill weeds grow apace and if they once take to the Soil it will be hard to extirpate and kill them But if we watch them and cut them up assoon as they appear this will discourage the Root and make it dye Therefore take great heed that your Children be not habituated and accustomed to any evil course A Vice that is of any considerable growth and continuance will soon grow obstinate and having once spread its roots it will be a very difficult matter to clear the ground of it A Child may be so long neglected till he be overgrown with Vice to that degree that it may be out of the power of Parents ever to bring him to good fruit If it once gain upon the depraved disposition of Children it will be one of the hardest things in the World to give a stop to it It is the Apostle's caution to take heed of being harden'd by the deceitfulness of Sin which they who go on in an evil course will most certainly be We should observe the first appearances of evil in Children and kill those young Serpents assoon as they stir lest they bite them to death Fourthly Bring them assoon as they are capable of it to the publick Worship of God where He hath promised his more especial presence and blessing It is in Zion the place of God's publick Worship where the Lord hath commanded the blessing even Life for evermore There are the means which God hath appointed for the begetting and increasing of Grace in us This is the Pool where the Angel useth to come and to move the Waters Bring your Children hither where if they diligently attend they may meet with an Opportunity of being healed And when they come from the Church call them frequently to an account of what they have heard and learn'd there This will make them both to attend more diligently to what they hear and to lay it up in their Memories with greater care and will fix it there so as to make a deeper and more lasting impression upon their Minds Fifthly Be careful more especially to put them upon the exercise and practice of Religion and Virtue in such Instances as their understanding and age are capable of Teach them some short and proper Forms of Prayer to God to be said by them devoutly upon their knees in private at least every Morning and Even●ng A great many Children neglect this not from any ill disposition of mind but because no body takes care to teach them how to do it And if they were taught and put upon doing it the habit and custom of any thing will after a little while make that easy and delightful enough which they cannot afterwards be brought to without great difficulty and reluctancy Knowledge and Practice do mutually● promote and help forward one another● Knowledge prepares and disposeth for Practice and Practice is the best way to perfect Knowledge in any kind Mere Speculation is a very raw and rude thing in comparison of that true and distinct knowledge which is gotten by Practice and Experience The most exact skill in Geography is nothing compared with the knowledge of that Man who besides the Speculative part hath travell'd over and carefully view'd the Countries he hath read of The most knowing man in the Art and Rules of Navigation is no body in comparison of an experienced Pilot and Seaman Because knowledge perfected by practice is as much dif●erent from mere Speculation as the skill of doing a thing is from being told how a thing is to be done For men may easily mistake Rules but frequent Practise and Experience are seldom deceived Give me a man that constantly does a thing well and that shall satisfy me that he knows how to do it That Saying of our B. Saviour If any man will do my will he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self is a clear determination of this matter namely That they understand the Will of God best who are most careful to do it And so likewise the best way to know what God is is to transcribe his Perfections in our Lives and Actions to be holy and just and good and merciful as He is Therefore when the minds of Children are once thoroughly possest with the true Principles of Religion we should bend all our endeavours to put them upon the practice of what they know Let them rather be taught to do well than to talk well rather to avoid what is evil in all its shapes and appearances and to practise their Duty in the several Instances of it than to speak with the Tongues of Men and Angels Unto Man He said Behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding Job 28. 28. Hereby ●aith St. John we know that we know him if we keep his Commandments He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him 1 Joh. 2. 3 4. Xenophon tells us that the Persians instead of making their Children learned taught them to be virtuous and instead of filling their heads with fine Speculations taught them honesty and sincerity and resolution and endeavoured to make them wise and valiant just and temperate Lycurgus also in the institution of the Lacedemonian Commonwealth took no care about Learning but only about the Lives and Manners of their Children Though I should think that the care of both is best and that Learning would very much help to form the Manners of Children and to make them both wiser and better Men And therefore with the leave of so great and wise a Lawgiver I cannot but think that this was a defect in his Institution● Because Learning if it be under the conduct of true wisdom and goodness is not only an ornament but a great advantage to the better Government of any Kingdom or Commonwealth Sixthly There must be great care and diligence used in this whole business of Education and more particularly in the Instruction of Children There must be line upon line and precept upon precept here a little and there a little as the Prophet expresseth it Isa 28. 10. The Principles of Religion and Virtue must be instill'd and dropt into them by such degrees and in such a measure as they are capable of receiving them For Children are narrow-mouth'd Vessels and a great deal cannot be poured into them at once And they must also be accustomed to the practice and exercise of Religion and goodness by degrees till Holiness and Virtue have taken root and they be well settled and confirm'd in a good course Now this requires constant attendance and even the patience of the Husbandman to wait for the fruit of our labours In some Children the Seeds that are sown fall into a greater depth of earth and therefore are of a ●low disclosure and it may be a