cunning, given to lying, flattery, and dissimulation; if they are conceit∣ed, rash, and unadvised, &c. Endea∣vour all you can to bend their minds another way: For Example, if they are sturdy and proud, strive to humble them, and break them, to tame their proud Spirits; accustom them to the doing acts of humility; do not gra∣tifie them in those things that are apt to make them proud; cause them to yield, and to submit to your Will, or to the Will of others, whom you think fit they should obey.
If you find them peevish and passio∣nate, teach them to be meek and gen∣tle; to be of a sweet and mild dispo∣sition; to love those who have done or said somewhat that crossed them; not to seek revenge, but to forgive them, and to be kind to them; to be ready, when they have occasion, to do them good for evil.
If they be given to Lying, shew them the evil of it, that a lying Tongue is an abomination to the Lord, Prov. 6.17. That the Devil is the Father of Lyars, and that they are in the num∣ber of those that are shut out of the new Jerusalem, and have their part in