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CHAP. XI. At what age these Maxims and these Ad∣vices are to be applied.
AS to the time, my Sister, when you ought principally to reduce into practise all these Maxims and all these advices, it is that time which commonly seems least proper for the acquisition of virtue, and to know its excellence and its beauty: I mean that of Infancy.
This is that which the holy Ghost himself insinuates unto us by the mouth of Solomon, who says, Pro. 32.11, That one may easily judge of the Inno∣cence and of the virtue of a young man by the things to which he is affected in his Infancy. He would signify hereby that Parents and they who are enchar∣ged with the Education of children, will be unexcusable, if the children be∣come not vertuous under their con∣duct; since they might easily prevent