 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 428 pages
...our compliance with it will not be in vain ; especially as he hath declared, that if we train up. a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it. CHAP. VII. The same subject (obedience to the first commandment J is continued ; and... | |
 | 1811 - 424 pages
...poor of the rising generation ; we arc entitled from sacred scripture to hope, that if we " train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it." The strength of early impressions have often a most influential effect upon the future... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1814 - 518 pages
...reflection, then, which we shall at present deduce from this subject, is, that if the child is trained up in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it. O, that I could open to you the little breasts of your offspring, and show you the... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1819 - 342 pages
...direction of the wise man, who declares, if we "train up a child in the way he should go, when be is old he will not depart from it." Should the wisdom...it a pleasing duty to give it all my attention and support. I am, Sir, Your obedient and faithful Servant, (Signed) T. PRICE, Chaplain, John Henry Capper,... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...reflection, the/i, which we shall at present deduce from this subject, is, that if the child is trained up in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it. O, that I could open to you the little breasts of your offspring, and show you the... | |
 | 1822 - 768 pages
...of children. The word of God and all experience testifies to the truth, that, if we -• train up a child in the way he should go, when -he is old he will not depart from-it." Yet in a land professing to be Christian, how little is this encouraging precept acted... | |
 | Visits - 1829 - 544 pages
...you do wrong:—Eli's sons you know were never restrained; but God promises that if we ' train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it.' And if God blesses the means we use to bring up our children in the fear of God, He... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1829 - 132 pages
...consequent upon it. These are comprehended in the latter \ clause of the text ; if a child be trained up in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it. This is a proverb, and therefore must be interpreted with the latitude permitted to... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 620 pages
...nurture and admonition of the Lord; yea, with a prediction or half promise, that if we " train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he shall not depart from it ;" Prov. xxii. 6. Now it is certain that God will usually bless that which... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1831 - 612 pages
...remains a truth sanctioned by Infinite Wisdom and general experience, that if a child be trained up in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it. We are not leaving out of view either the doctrine of human depravity, or the necessity... | |
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Religion encourages the assurance, that, if we " train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it. 
