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TO ALL Parents of Children Upon the face of the VVhole Earth:
That your Children you may the better train up in the right Way that they should go therein, some∣thing of the True Way it self is discovered, that Iniquity may not be received by Tradition from Parents to Children, and so from one Generation to another, but that your Children may come to Christ, and be Children of God, and so be a Comfort unto you: Therefore is this sent among you every where in love to your Children and you.
FRom the Bowels of God's infinite Love, unto a tender Seed of him, not known nor brought forth in tender Babes, am I moved to you to write, That your Children you provoke not to Wrath, nor draw forth their Minds into Un∣righteousness; neither be ye Examples of Rashness, nor Fro∣wardness, neither teach ye them that, when they are little (to please your vain Minds) which you must chastise them afterwards to leave again; neither teach ye them to be Proud, by drawing forth their Minds to look at foolish Toyes, which you in the Transgression have put upon them, in any manner of dressing which is needless; for this know, that in so doing you bring them from being such, of whom the Kingdom of God doth con∣sist, to be Children of the Devil, who is the Father of Pride, which many harmeless Children would not come unto, were they not trained into it, by such as are in Pride already; neither teach ye them to strike in the least, nor provoke them to have any delight to see striking; for thereby afterwards they come to