The Christian education of children: according to the maxims of the Sacred Scripture, and the instructions of the fathers of the church / written and several times printed in French, and now translated into English.
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The Christian education of children: according to the maxims of the Sacred Scripture, and the instructions of the fathers of the church / written and several times printed in French, and now translated into English.
Author
Varet, Alexandre-Louis, 1632-1676.
Publication
At Paris :: By John Baptist Coignard ...,
1678.
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Christian education
Education
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"The Christian education of children: according to the maxims of the Sacred Scripture, and the instructions of the fathers of the church / written and several times printed in French, and now translated into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A95817.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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16. Maxims touching the Complacency which Parents have in their Chil∣dren.
NEver approve the actions of your children in which there is on the one side Wit, and on the other side Malice; for fear lest not know∣ing how to disintangle that which there is of spiritual, from that which is of malice, in the thing they do, they should attribute to the whole action that pleasure you take and the praise you give them; and that thus they should accustom themselves to practice it, and should (to please you) get a habit of telling petty lies, and inventing tricks against their brethren or against the other domesticks.
Be you very reserved in the prai∣ses you give them, even for their
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most spiritual actions; and be afraid lest by relating in their presence all they do wherein there appears wit, and by discoursing with them or of them, they should be puffed up with pride, and so become insupportable to others.
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