 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 610 pages
...need/til. Briefly ttrWH mtr.drd in Four Letters to a Friend. By Tbamat Simmf. Sva. zn RobinsonSi iSoi. ' Train up a child in the way in which he should go,' is an old Tnaxirh derived from the best authority) and the numerous and la* mentable instances that... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...to be the means of making them wise and good. This is the arrangement urged by Solomon in the text, train up a child in the way in which he should go. : and when he is old, he will not depart Jrom it. Being early initiated into the right way, he will pursue... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...for whose use this tract was 'particularly intended, and is judiciously adapted. The sacred precept to train up a child in the way in which he should go, is enforced with relation to the following series of articles: the knowledge and service of God —... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1808 - 702 pages
...character in sound principles or in virtuous habits, than the advice and observation of Solomon, — " Train up a child in the way in which he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Whether the same writer did not carry the system of severity... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but train them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Train up a child in the way in which he should go, when he is young ; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Parents and Congregation. Help us,... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 414 pages
...or vicious, according to the turn which is given to their minds in the discipline of youth. If you train up a child in the way in which he should go, you may hope, that, when he is old, he will not depart from it ; but if you leave him to himself, to... | |
 | Timothy East - 1817 - 246 pages
...But then.' are others which must be understood, in their nature, connexions, and practical bearings. Train up a child in the way in which he should go. The Hebrew word signifies to initiate into some science. Lead them on from one truth to another, presenting... | |
 | Stephen Addington - Baptism - 1818 - 156 pages
...your children grace, you can give them religious instructions ; and the word of God says to you, " train up a child in the way in which he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Trifle not with the sacred command ; but bring them up... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1840 - 644 pages
...life, this filial spirit, with which the people of God live upon him ? STRIKING NARRATIVE OF FACTS. " Train up a child in the way in which he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it!" (Prov. xxii. 6.) " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...formation of character. Instruction imparts knowledge to the understanding ; Christian education " trains up a child in the way in which he should go," and so moulds aud forms and strengthens his character, that " when he is old • he will not depart from... | |
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Solomon refers to the power of hnltit when he says, " train up a child in the way in which he should go ; and when he is old he will not depart from it ;" a power which cannot be employed too early in the aid of virtue and religion. 
