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CHAP. XIV. What is most opposite to the Application of these Maxims and of these Ad∣vices in the Christian Education of Children.
THere are two things particularly which hinder Fathers and Mo∣thers from following the Maxims of the Gospel and the Advices of the Fathers of the Church in the Education of their Children, to wit, Custom and Ambition.
The First, although most com∣monly, it hath no more lawful foundation than the disorder of In∣feriours and the remissness of Supe∣riours, makes it self nevertheless to be followed by all the world. It gains the heart and the spirit of them who most resist it: and as S. * 1.1 Augustin excellently says, it choaks Christians, and stifles in them the most tender fee∣lings