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truth_n	faith_n	spirit_n	word_n	6,961	5	4.2967	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39737	A sermon of the education of children preach'd before the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on Sunday, Novemb. 1, 1696 / by William Fleetwood ...	Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.	1696 (1696)	Wing F1249; ESTC R15389	18,831	43

Motive to induce every Relation to see after the Improvement of Children as it falls in their Way so it is a special Argument to Parents to attend more heedfully to the well educating of their Children because the Wellfare and the Prejudice of so many other People does in a great Measure depend thereon But supposing the Evil were single that neither Common-wealth nor Family nor Parent were endamaged as they all are by want of Education yet the Evils that befall the Children are so intolerably many and pernicious both to Soul and Body that those may well be said to hate them that do not when they might and should prevent them Can we see a Man that has wholly renounc'd to Truth and good Faith so entirely possess'd with the Spirit of Falsehood Lying and Deceit that one knows not how to believe a Word he sayes nor how to trust him with the least Concern Can we see a Man so ignorant of God and Goodness of Religion and his Duty and of all Things Spiritual that one would think he were newly born into the World and had not yet attained the Use of Reason nor indeed the Use of Speech and Language and another so exceeding skilful in those Matters and of so sharp a Wit and penetrating Judgment that he knows very well that there is no such thing as God and Soul or any thing but gross substantial Matter modify'd with great variety Can we hear another talk so loudly and so frequently of God that his Mouth is fill'd with nothing else and yet at last it should be all in his Dishonour and Defiance in wounding Oaths in raging Blasphemies and dreadful Imprecations without Temptation without Pleasure without Profit and at last without his Knowledge and Design Can we see another vers'd in all the Species of Intemperance practis'd in all the Arts of Luxury and Wantonness and devoted wholly to excess a perfect Slave to his voracious Appetite and whose heart and Soul is in his Dish Another so intoxicated with the Love of Drink that if 't were possible to drown himself he would devoting both the Day and Night to that excess having no other Business nor other Pleasure and Diversion than Intemperance neglecting all Concerns forgetting all his Duty both to God and Man a Reproach to Nature Scandal to Religion Useless to all the ends and purposes of living and not only so but by his bad Example and the cursed Consequences of those Courses ruinous to himself and Family and a most pernicious Creature to the Commonwealth And another so enfeebled by his Lusts so debilitated both in Soul and Body by his exorbitant Indulgence to those brutal Longings that he is scarce the Shadow of a Man dull of Apprehension weak in Imagination failing in Memory and moap'd in his Understanding In a word as impotent of Mind as Body and whose Soul is as loose about him as his Limbs Can one see I say these and a thousand other Evils and Disorders with all their ugly Consequences reign and rage about the World continually and know at the same time they are the natural Consequences of a loose and careless Education and might in a great measure have been prevented by Advice Restraint and punishing betimes can one see and know this and doubt at the same time whether our Parents hated us or no who should and could but would not save us from them What could our greatest Enemy have done besides He would have taken the same courses for one that he exercises as he did Job with Sorrows and Afflictions he ruines a thousand by Indulgences it is the End he aims at which is our destruction and 't is no matter by what means he comes about it If Eutrapelus's Presents are sure to prove as fatal to a weak Mind as a Dagger in a Man's Heart or a Glass of Poyson in his Bowels what signifie the shews of Love and the Pretence of Friendship which prove as deadly as the Assaults of open Enmity What signifies it that the Child is the Delight of its Parents Eyes and the Idol of their Hearts the perpetual Object of their Thoughts and the perpetual Theme of their Discourse that they discern new Beauties dayly in it secret Charms and Excellencies undiscoverable to all the World besides hear Musick in his Voice and Wit in every Word and Grace and Comeliness in every Action If Care be not taken to render him as excellent indeed and to himself and as amiable to others by Vertue Goodness Sweetness and Humanity as he is to them by an abused Fancy All other Demonstrations are but Demonstrations of their own Fondness to and Love of their own self and end in their own Complacence and Delight If you would convince another of your Love it is he that must feel the effects of it in and upon himself as well as you It is otherwise like the Charity of good Words the wishing of Alms and Food and Raiment with which a Man may be starv'd with Cold and Hunger The Love that terminates in Fondness and the little trifling if no worse effects of that can no more properly be called the Love of ones Children than the bidding the hungry be filled the thirsty be satisfied and the naked be cloathed without supplying those Necessities can be call'd relieving them But the Parallel will hold no farther for he that relieves not the distressed does them at least no harm or injury whereas the Parent that with all this dotage takes not care to educate his Children virtuously and well does them the greatest injury and mischief in the World mispends the only proper time and season of their Improvement deprives them of all the Advantages and Opportunities of becoming useful to the Publick a Support to the Family a comfortable Relation and happy People themselves and not only so but exposes them defenceless destitute and naked to abundance of Hazards and Temptations to a contagious Air in the most sensible and tender Age to a vicious World with vicious Inclinations to combate with those Foes with whom our Hearts do naturally conspire to meet those Dangers we rejoice to run into to vanquish those Temptations which we seek and hunt for to resist those evils we had rather should prevail than be subdu'd to be left in a word to our selves to the Naughtiness of our own Hearts and the Dictates of unruly heedless Nature to engage with so many Sins and so many Snares as are commonly a match sufficient for the greatest Care and greatest Watchfulness and greatest Prudence together with the ordinary Supplies of God's Grace is to be ruin'd and undone without peradventure And if these are not true effects of Hatred if these are not the Tokens of the greatest Ill-will and the most improv'd refin'd Malice we are yet to learn what those Words mean And this I hope is so evident from the sense of the Thing from the reason of the Words and from the experience of the World that there is