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woman_n	authority_n	teach_v	usurp_v	1,644	5	10.6427	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29099	The description and the benefits of a regular education a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the anniversary meeting of the gentlemen educated at St. Paul's School, January 25th 1699/1700 / by Samuel Bradford.	Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4109; ESTC R25288	12,549	25

he says that it dwelt first in his Grandmother Lois and his Mother Eunice intimating that he deriv'd it from them not certainly by meer descent but by their carefully instructing and forming his tender mind and the same Persons no question gave him also the first knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 'T is true Acts 16.1 he had a Greek or Gentile proselyted but not circumcis'd to his Father by which means he himself was not circumcis'd v. 3. till St. Paul from prudent Considerations thought fit to do it after he was committed to his care the Father it seems govern'd in that matter whilst the Son was in his State of Infancy and Childhood and not the Mother but to make amends for this disadvantage 't is likely that both the Mother and Grandmother were the more sedulous in his Instruction Here then his good Education began these pious Women gave him the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures from his Childhood And that the good Work which they had begun might be effectually carried on they having themselves early embrac'd the Christian Doctrine committed this their Charge to St. Paul that as soon as he was capable he might attend him and be farther instructed and improv'd by his Precepts and his Example For altho' the first mention we meet with of him is in that passage of the Acts of the Apostles Acts 16.1 where St. Paul is said to have come to Derbe and Lystra yet 't is very probable that he had attended the Apostle before that time from a passage a little before the Text V. 10 11. where St. Paul tells him that he had fully known the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may fairly denote that he had known by attending the Apostle by seeing hearing and observing his Doctrine manner of Life Purpose Faith Long-suffering Patience Persecutions Afflictions which came unto him at Antioch at Iconium at Lystra Acts 14.1 ch 13.1 So that it seems he had been with him at Iconium before he came to Lystra and at Antioch before he was at Iconium 'T is likely his Father was now dead and he at the dispose of his Mother and to whom could she better commit him than to so admirable a Master as this one who had himself had the most regular Education as a Jew brought up in Jerusalem at the feet of the great Gamaliel Acts 22.3 Gal. 1.14 and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the Fathers one who had profited in the Jews Religion above many his Equals in his own Nation one who could thank God that he had serv'd him from his Fore-fathers with a pure Conscience one 2 Tim. 1.3 Gal. 1.15 16. whom as it had pleas'd God to separate from his Mother's Womb so in due time he call'd him by his Grace and reveal'd his Son first to him and then by him and that in a very extraordinary manner one who had not receiv'd the Gospel of Man V. 12. neither had been taught it but by the immediate Revelation of Jesus Christ and finally one who as he had receiv'd so he taught the Gospel with Demonstration and Power endeavouring to propagate the knowledge of it with the most exact fidelity the most indefatigable Industry and the most ardent Zeal that was possible This was the Person to whom young Timothy was committed for his farther improvement And as the Apostle took him along with him in his Travels so upon all occasions he exprest the greatest tenderness towards him 1 Tim. 1.2 2 Tim. 1.2 stiling him his own Son in the Faith and his dearly beloved Son and having at length found him a fit Person from his own experience as well as from the recommendation of others Acts 16.2 he consecrated him very early to the Work of the Ministry and appointed him whilst yet Young to be Bishop of the Church of Ephesus 1 Tim. 4.12 This was the Education of Timothy And if from thence we would form an Idea of a just and regular Education it must be to this purpose That in the first place Parents those to whom God hath committed the principal care of their Off-spring being themselves well instructed prudent virtuous and pious make it their business from the very dawning of Understanding and Reason to cultivate and improve the Minds of their Young ones instilling gradually as their capacities shall be enlarg'd such Principles and inuring them to such Practices as become Men and Christians Where both the Parents shall conspire in carrying on the same design by the same methods the Child will have an advantage above what Timothy seems to have had in his Childhood but if either of them shall thorowly do their part tho' the other should prove more unapt or negligent we see in this instance that by God's Blessing it may have it's effect And here even the weaker Sex may be of singular use 1 Tim 2.11 12. 1 Cor. 14.34 35. For altho' our Apostle would not suffer Women to teach or to usurp Authority over the Men but commands them to learn of them in silence and with all subjection yet we see he commends them for exercising Authority over and teaching their Children And here indeed they have in divers respects the advantage of the Men their tender Off-spring being first deliver'd by Nature into their Arms they having during their minority the greatest influence upon them and it being consequently their place and privilege to sow the first seeds of Ingenuity Virtue and Piety in them But where both Parents conspire each of them doing their proper part the work is like to succeed best The next step in a regular Education is that the Parents having thus done and still continuing to do as they have opportunity what becomes them both by their Instructions Admonitions Authority and Example they take in the assistance of others to complete what they have begun committing their Children to the care of such choice Persons as shall be both able and willing to second them in their designs and endeavours To this purpose that they send them to well-manag'd Schools where they may both be confirm'd and improv'd in the Principles and Practice of Virtue and Piety and may receive such farther Instructions as may dispose them to become wise and good and useful Men in their several future Stations in the World And here great care is to be taken for there are Quacks in all Professions as well as in that of Physick and in none do they Practice more frequently or more dangerously than in this of teaching Youth An ill Method or an ill management here will either Poyson or at least weaken the Constitution of the Patient and render him sickly and infirm thro the whole remaining course of his Life An Error committed in this Instance is like a fault in the first concoction never thorowly mended by any following digestions After Children's being continued at School so long as to answer the ends for