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.
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Varet, Alexandre-Louis, 1632-1676.
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At Paris :: By John Baptist Coignard ...,
1678.
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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 June 12, 2024.
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9. Maxims touching what is particularly to be avoided in conversation before Children.
NEver suffer in their presence vi∣ces to be covered with the name of virtue:
* 1.1 Let it not be said,
that 'tis to be of a good humour to frequent Shews, Balls and Comedies: That 'tis to be liberal, to make great expences: and that 'tis to be couragious to have ambitious designs.
Permit not the name of vice to be given to virtue: to call devotion that which is hipocrisy, liberality that which is prodigality; the love of retreat, a savage disposition; the fear to offend God, a scrupulosity and a weakness.
Rowse up their courage without raising in them ambition: render
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them bold without egging them on to rash enterprizes: teach them to be meek without effeminacy; con∣stant without obstinacy; grave with∣out severity; eivil and obliging with∣out baseness; frank and free with∣out folly and fondness; prudent without cousenage; secret without dissimulation; liberal without pro∣digality; good husbanders without avarice; devout and religious with∣out superstition.
Repeat unto them no less frequently then did the Mother of a great King, these words:
my children, God knows how well I love you; but I had rather an hundred thousand times see you carried to your graves, than to see you commit one only grievous sin.
Perhaps you may be so happy as to engrave deeply in their soul this sen∣timent, and to conserve them, as this Princess did this great person, in the Innocence of their Baptism.