Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.

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Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.
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London :: Printed for the author,
1664.
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Youth -- Conduct of life.
Conduct of life.
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"Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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LXXXIII.

Do nothing to displease God, and let no∣thing he does displease thee; let there be but one will between him and thee, and his thine; behave thy self as in his eye, and in his audi∣ence; he is witness, and he is Judge; if thou

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hast offended, punishment is thy due; thou hast no reason to repine, when justly beaten; whatever the sentence is, it is no less just than severe; if thou wouldst escape the stroak, shun the sin.

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