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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

every desire of having more is that covetousness which is forbidden 64. Though what the Law commands be impossible to corrupted nature yet the Spirit of Jesus makes in an easie yoke § 64. And in fine although that which the Law requires be impossible to the flesh because of sin which hath weakened it nevertheless when GOD gives the Good Spirit of Jesus Christ to a Soul it doth then by his assistance or rather the Spirit of Jesus Christ doth then in that soul all that the Law requires Without doing which none can as yet pretend to the Spirit of Jesus Christ neither doth any as yet belong to him as his Child nor as justified by him Rom 8.3 4 9. Nor as having true faith which doth not make void the Law but establish it Rom 3.30 By which also we keep the Commandments of GOD in overcoming the World Joh 5.3 4. And which in fine admits us into a communion with GOD in the Light and into a state out of which we cannot partake in the merits of Jesus Christ and of his Death Since If we say than we haue fellowship with GOD and yet walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth But if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have fellowship one with another and then the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin saith St. John 1 John 1.6 7. § 65. The Will of GOD as to that we must practise 65. Portions of Scripture particularized which contain the Gospel Law the perusal whereof must be specially recommended to young ones is also set down very particularlie and in brief in the 5 6 and 7 Chap of St. Mat And in the 13 14 15 and 16 of St. John and in the first Epistle of St. John and St. Peter All which must be made very familiar to young ones together with the great Psalm of David by the reading one Section whereof we may alwayes shut up the reading of the mentioned portions of Holy Scripture To these we may also joyn Thomas a Kempis § 66. All the Laws of GOD which are so wholsome 66. An Abridgment or short summ of the Divine Laws which must be very carefully imprinted on the hearts of Young Ones and so admirable whereof David speaks so often with so much love and admiration which all the Scripture recommends as the source of life as the light of the heart as the Treasure of Souls which Jesus Christ calls Eternal Life Joh 12.50 And which in fine the Holy Spirit promised Writes in the heart where he dwels say all the Laws of GOD may be reduced to these four 1. To Love GOD. 2. To Love Jesus Christ Crucified that is not only himself but also his Cross and his Tribulations the fellowship of his Afflictions conformity to his Death and the fulfilling of what is behind of his Sufferings in our flesh 1 Cor 2.2 Phil 3.10 Col 1.24 3. To love our neighbour 4. And to hate our selves The whole of our duty is truely comprehended under these few heads Therefore it is that we must take pains to inspire the Veneration and love of them into the hearts of Children so to say into the Marrow of their bones from their tender years and to animate them thereto by Prayer by meditation and by the dayly reading of that incompareable Psalms of David which hath been already mentioned as also by the application of those excellent words of his in the 19 Psalm The Law of the Lord the Law of the love of God of the Cross of Jesus Christ the love of our Neighbour and the hatred of self This admirable Law when it is imprinted on the Heart by the Holy Ghost Is a Law that is intire perfect converts the Soul The Testimony of the Lord is sure and makes the simple even little Children wise The Commandments of God are right rejoycing the Heart The Statutes of the Lord are pure and they enlighten the eyes of our soul The fear of the Lord is the source of Holiness it is the only good that shall endure for ever The Judgement of the LORD are true and Righteous altogether more are they to be desired than Gold yea then much fine Gold sweeter also then Hony and the Hony-comb By them is thy servant enlightened and in keeping of them is a great reward § 67. It will be also very profitable 67. Children must be put in mind of the Baptismal Covenant as also of the advantages and duties of it and even necessary to represent unto Children that at their Baptism they entered into a Covenant with GOD who on His part hath promised to be their GOD that is to say to give himself Father Son and Holy Ghost unto them with all his good things and with all his graces whereof then they have received the first fruits which they should take care not to loose by their sins and by an Antichristian conversation especially considering that they also on their part have reciprocally promised unto GOD to be entirely his and to give and consecrate unto him for ever their Souls and their bodies their desires their understandings their pleasures and their Joyes their actions and their whole life together with a filial obedience to all the expressions of his most Holy will and an absolute and full renounciation of self and sin of the Devil and the World thus ratifieing in substance all those things which we have hitherto insisted on and which none can neglect without renouncing his Baptism and Christianitie § 68. I suppose that all the World knows well enough the most common rules concerning what Young Ones ought to practise with respect to God 68. What Young Ones must practise their Parents their Neighbours themselves things which ought to be inculcat very carefully on them by reason that such is the Will of God As § 69. 1. With regard to God 69. 1. With respect to God To live and to act as being alwayes in the presence of God who together with all his Holy Angels still looks on us and who will make to come into his Judgement whatsoever we have done spoke or thought whether Good or evil in order to be rewarded or punished for it for ever To pray unto God orderly Evening and Morning and before Meals To make them often lift up their heart to God particularly before any labour or imployment in order to obtain his Assistance and Blessing and after they have finished their work to return Thanks to God for it and offer it up to Him and to His Glory To hear with respect and Attention the Divine Truths whether in private or at Church without thinking that they have sufficiently discharged their Duty to God for having simply heard them or retained them in their Memories and that therefore they ought to pray unto God that he would give the true Understanding of them and by the Operations of his Good Spirit

quicken them so as to bring forth Fruit in an Humble submissive Obedient and simple heart 70. 2. With respect to Parents Superiors § 70 2. With respect to Fathers and Mothers and Superiours To pray unto God for them To love them with fear and reverence To obey them without murmuring even in those things which do not please us and which are not evidently sins against God and his Commandments And to do nothing without their Knowledge and allowance 71 1. With respect to their Neighbours § 71. 3. With regard to their Neighbours and Play-fellows To pray also unto GOD for them To love them and to wish Good to them as to themselves and not to do unto them but as they would that others should do unto them To believe them to be better then themselves and not to prefer themselves to any To live in peace with them to forbear them and never to revenge themselves either by desire or by injuries or any other way of the evil which they may have met with from them but heartily to pardon them 72 4. with respect to themselves and even to pray unto GOD very particularly for them § 72. 4. With regard to themselves To have alwayes a very mean opinion of themselves To eat only at appointed hours soberly and of whatsoever is given them whither it be agreeable or disagreeable to them Not to desire either Pomp or Plentie and to be content with little To imploy their time according to the Rules prescribed them never being without some work idleness being the devils pillow To do whatever is recommended to them the best way they can Not to lie nor disput nor contradict nor speak unprofitably not to seek for excuses when they have failed but to be ready to confess ingenuously their faults and to beg pardon from GOD from their Superiours and from their neighbours to the end they may obtain the favour of God who will never pardon sins as long as they are excused 73. How to mannage the Reproofes and Chastisements of Children so as they may tend to their Benefit and Instruction § 73. Touching the reproofs and chastisements of Children I suppose that Parents and others concerned are not ignorant that with respect to such as are of a Docile Peaceable and Modest Temper they must evidence more of Lenity and Sweetness than of Severitie And that on the contrary they ought to testifie more of severity to those that are of a Fierce Obstinate and mutinous Nature setting them however understand that it is only their wicked qualities and Dispositions which hinder that they are not so much loved as otherwise they would be It is Equitable and Just to pardon Children faults which they have done without design by ignorance and without thinking to do evil though in th● mean time they should take occasion from these miscarriages thus ignorantly and undesignedly committed to instruct them in and to exhort them to their Duty But great care must be taken to punish such faults as they commit wilfully and knowing well that they do evil as the faults of lying of disobedience of stricking some bodie and the like We must never chastise Children without letting them understand before hand as much as may be that they are to be blamed that they have done that which they knew ought not to be done and that it is Just that they should be punished for it for their Good and by the Love which we carrie to them These Principles are well enough suited to their Capacitie namely that evil displeases GOD Men that it deserves punishment before GOD before Men that if it were not punished it would grow and could not be curbed any more and it would be attended with Eternal Chastisements That in order to hinder this misery and to rescue them from it by the Love which we bear to their Souls it is good to let them a little taste a chastisement which is a hundred thousand Millions of times less then that of the other Life And having thus represented these things unto them to chastise them moderatly without fearing to make them weep and to renew the Chastisement when they reiterat the Crime Reasonable Chastisements are the effect of True Love and two or three of these given to a Child who begins to contract ill habits are capable to craze them Whereas if we spare them by a foolish and fond love which is indeed rather a cruel hatred we shall weep with them for it Eternally But on the other hand we must beware of Brutish Passionat and indiscreet Chastisements which are no less hurtful then too much Indulgence and which have no other effect but to render their Spirits froward and untractable and inspire them with horrour as well at the good to which we would constrain them so cruelly as at the persons which they cannot hinder themselves from looking on as their enemies 74. Children must be taught to praise GOD when they do well and not to take the commendation of it to themselves § 74. When Children do well and we give evidence of our being well pleased thereat it were far better to teach them to praise GOD for it and to say to Him I thank Thee O LORD for vouchsafing me the grace to do well without Thee I cannot do any thing that is worth then to praise themselves directly for it and that because of the danger there is by so doing of inspiring them with and fortifying in them self-love self satisfaction and pride ss 75. There are yet many other things both to be practised towards them 75. Parents ought conscientiously to practise themselves what they recommend to their Children and to be taught them which they who lay to heart as they ought their Education may well observe and inculcate on them of themselves or which they may deduce from the Principles hitherto laid down which Fathers and Mothers ought themselves first of all to practise as well for their own Salvation as for the Salvation of their Children which ought to be as dear to them as their own and this consideration should incline them to seek from GOD without ceasing the Grace how to mannage and govern becomingly both themselves and these that belong to them and not to destroy by their Actions and by their examples that which they do no otherways recommend to their Children then by words baffled and discredited by their own practices 76. 45. The supposed impossibilitie or ridiculousness of the foregoing directions refuted the miserie of these Parents who shall neglect them briefly declared § 76. Perhaps these Precepts shall seem to the most part either imposible or ridiculous to be inculcated on and practised by Children They do not appear to us impossible on any other account but because we have not been from our infancie trained up to them if there had been no defect here these Precepts would appear unto us easiness it self As for