TO MY SONNE, 



S N N E 



calamity of this time being 

 fuch, as hath bereft me of the 

 ordinary means of exprefsing 

 my affe&ion to you ; I have 

 been cafting about, to finde 

 fome other way of (doing that 

 in fuch fort, as you may receive moft profit 

 by it. Therein I foone pitched upon thefe 

 confederations ; That Parents owe unto their 

 children, not onely materiall fubfiftence for 

 their Body, but much more, fpirituall contri- 

 butions to their better part, their Mind. I am 

 much bound to God, that he hath endued you 

 with one, very capable of thebeft inftru&i- 

 ons : and withall,! doe therefore efteeme my 

 felfe obliged, to doe my utmoft for moulding 



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