A sons patrimony and daughters portion payable to them at all times but best received in their first times when they are young and tender : laid-out without expence of money only in the improving time and words with them contained (in an answerablenesse to their ages) in two volumes ...

A Premonition to the PARENT.

TO undeceive you herein (for we hate de∣ceit in any thing) know, That this book was published 3 yeers ago; but, through a mistake in the Author, not acquainted with the mysterie of Stationing, or selling books, it was pent up in a chamber ever since; & there it had lain still, had not he been moved about it (by a zealous well-wisher to the good of parent and child both) To give the purpose and intendment of all that in the Title, which is largely treated on in the book. This the Author hath done in truth & sincerity, not making shew in the Title of more, then is not truly in the book. Some pas∣sages there are in the book, perhaps too high, raised above thy reach & capacitie; but where∣in thy duty lies, and that is all along, there it is as plain as is the beaten way, if you come with a re∣solution to observe, and mark it: if not, I know not what is easie, but our own way, and that tends directly to destruction. Truly, to speak my

mind what I think, this is it; That this time is the season for this book; for probable it is, we wil harken to it now, because we smart now; pain and sorrow is upon us from what we fear, yea & frō what we feel too: likely it is we will harken now, or never: And if we do so, we must needs learn, That all this evill is from our little house within the breast, and the greater house without. Let every man doe his own work, his duty, reform there, where God hath made him overseer, then the work is done, the sword will be still. And this is the scope and purpose of the book. A word is enough to the wise, especially such, who are made wise by blows.