J. Rev. Mr. Jenner, Burbage, near Pewsey, Wilts. Mrs. Jufon, Wanftead, Effex. Mrs. Jarman, Mill-Hill, Hendon. L. Sir James Tylney Long, Bart. Grosvenor-Place. Mifs Sufanna Lawrence, No. 11, Surry Side of Westminster-Bridge. M. His Grace the Duke of Montagu. Mr. Walter Mudge, Royal Exchange. Mr. Ralph Mitchinfon, Hendon. Mr. John Marsh, Mill-Hill, Hendon. O. Rev. Arthur Onflow, D. D. Canon of ChriftChurch, Oxford. P. George Peters, Efq. Governor of the Bank of Rev. Mr. Pottinger, Compton, Berkshire. Rev. Mr. Poole, Rector of Stanmore Parva. Mr. Patrick, ditto. Mrs. Anne Peers, Shadwell. Mrs. R. Mifs Randall, Culland's Grove, Southgate, 2 Copies. Mrs. Rawlins, Edgware. Mifs Reynolds, Cannonbury-Place, Iflington. S. Right Hon. Lady Viscountefs Stormont, Portland-Place, 8 Copies. Gilbert Slater, Efq. Knight's-Green, Low Layton, 4 Copies. Mifs Slater, Stepney, 4 Copies. Mr. William Smith, Ratcliffe, London. Mr. Jofeph Stone, Edgware. Mr. P. Stone, ditto. Mr. Strikes, ditto. T. Mrs. Eleanor Trinder, Stepney, 4 Copies. Mr. Verney, Edgware. V. W. Timothy Williamfon, Efq. Hertford. SER SERMON I. ON EDUCATION. PROV. xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he shall go; and, when he is old, he will not depart from it. IN and of the world, the N all ages and hiftories of the world, the beft and the wifeft of mankind have confidered the right education of their children, as a principal object of their care; knowing well, that riches and honours are adventitious; that they depend on accident; but that a well-formed mind is an inestimable treasure, that is in great degree, independent of the good or ill of this life, and that it is both a public and a private bleffing. Solomon, as a patriot king, as a father, as a philofopher, well knowing the mighty influence of education, and highly regarding the welfare of his family and of his people, hath, in various parts of this book of Proverbs, drawn up feveral fhort and useful rules, by which all, especially young perfons, may, wifely, direct their conduct; but the text is addreffed to parents, and not to them only, but to all persons who 'are entrusted with the education of children; and therefore, as the admonition is, almoft, of general concern, fuffer me to difcourfe upon it digreffively as well as closely; for furely nothing can be too much said, provided that it be well faid, upon the usefulnefs of training up a child in the way that he fhould go, for, it is moft certain, that, when he is old, he will not depart from it. ift Then I do not feruple to condemn that fashionable, but most unnatural custom, of robbing a new-born infant of its proper aliment, namely, its mother's milk; if the infant be regarded, it cannot be too foon, after its birth, applied to the parent's breaft; for the first milk, confifting, chiefly, of a thin ferous matter, is a powerful cleanser of the infant's body, and it acts much better than J than any other medicine that can be given; but if the milk be denied to the infant, and it be fuffered to ftagnate in the breast, the dangers that arife from fuch coagulation, need, I hope, only to be mentioned, in order to ftrike a general alarm! Often do hence arise, moft painful inflammations and ill conditioned tumours, which not, unfrequently, degenerate into cancerous matter, which, when it pervade the system, is always incurable. The poor infant too, defpoiled of its natural and most proper nourishment, and receiving food that is quite improper for its tender and feeble organs of digeftion, (whether it be the milk of an hireling, which may be either too rich, or too poor, either too acid, or too alcalefcent, whether it be culinary preparations that regard the palate more than the conftitution, or whatever be the unnatural food) it often waftes away its days and nights in pain, and, at last, it dies a mournful proof of the evils that proceed from exceffive refinement and civilization. But the hazard of lofing both health and life, is not all that is to be dreaded from this wretched practice; the fear of displeasing almighty God by thus cancel |