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Parents to be careful in the education of their Children. [ 1303]

JUlian the Apostate had two great Schollers, Mardonius and Maximus to his Tutors,* 1.1 but being prophane Heathens, and scoflers at Christian Religion, they laid the foundations of that desperate Apostacy, whereby he fell from Christ to the Devill. Thus he that begets a Fool, or by carelesse breeding maketh one, hath been the Author of his own sorrow, and his child's also, who may have just occasion to cry out at the last day, Parentes sensimus Parricidas, Our Pa∣rents have been our Parricides:* 1.2 It must therefore be the care of all Parents so to provide for the breeding up of their Children unto Wisdom, as that they forget not the chief thing, to have them seasoned with the knowledg and fear of God, which is the onely true Wisdome, Iob 28. 28.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ennapp••us in in Maxim. Sozomen. lib. 5. c. 6. Prov. 23. 15.
• * 1.2

  Probum paren∣tem esse opo••••et qui gnatum ••uum p••obio∣rem, &c. Plaut.