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Paul haswisely advised : — - " Parent ' s ^ provoke not your childreri to wrath , lest they be discouraged , but train them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord . " Severity with passiori undoubtedly has a tendency either to harden the minds of the sufferers ^ or to tempt them into the practice of deceit and falsehood . On this account parents and all who are
friends to the progressive improvement of mankiiid in every rising generation , should beware lest the mdul-r gence of anger should not only render themselves irritable and of course uhh ' appy , but the objects of their resentment liable to the like propensity ,, or inclined to guile for the sake of avoiding punishment .
In the directions given by Moses to spread abroad the knowledge of the Jewish law and commandments , he seems to have been well-aware of the impression made by domestic and parental instruction . " Thou shalt teach these things diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in the house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou risest up . "
Instructors should unquestionably use , as the words may imply , both diligence and repetition . Nothing more effectually impresses good instruction upon the mind than familiar conversation . During their leisure hours at home , parents cannot be better employed than in teaching their children .
It is a most delightful as well as useful office . Advantage may be taken both of exercise and amusement , to convey valuable ideas to the mind . In the evening , persons may be tranquil , contemplative and disposed either to receive instruction or to engage in devotion . Since sleep is the image of death , man ; ought to be as thank / ul for his restoration from one , as for his resurrection from the other .
It is a pleasing subject for reflection , that , before persons go to the business and events of the day , they have made some provision for the salvation of the soul , for the improvement of the mind , and that their children or domestics have by their means made some progress in wisdom ,
in virtue , or in religion . In the affection which Jesus Christ shewed for little children , and in the emblem , which they suggested to his mind of simplicity and innocence , he hath sufficiently encouraged the endeavours of parents for the welfare or theif offspring , and hath tndde them memorials of those virtues , which alone can fit either parents or children for the blessedness of the just . In fact there is never just cause to be discouraged . Under ths wise and gracious providence of God , no good effort is evei ;
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Advice 16 Parents on Baptism . 299
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/11/
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