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<p>Children are here exhorted to be wise and good, 1. That they may be a comfort to their parents and may <i>make their hearts glad</i>, even when <i>the evil days come</i>, and so recompense them for their care, <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.23.15" href="/passage/?search=Prov.23.15">Prov. 23:15</a>. 2. That they may be a credit to them: “<i>That I may answer him that reproaches me</i> with having been over-strict and severe in bringing up my children, and having taken a wrong method with them in restraining them from the liberties which other young people take. <i>My son, be wise</i>, and then it will appear, in the effect, that I went the wisest way to work with my children.” Those that have been blessed with a religious education should in every thing conduct themselves so as to be a credit to their education and to silence those who say, <i>A young saint, an old devil</i>; and to prove the contrary, <i>A young saint, an old angel</i>.</p>
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