"Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it."
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Eman. Matthews
Date
1715
Metaphor
"Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it."
Metaphor in Context
Child.
May I Father! Then I'll get it all without Book.
Fath.
It is not so much the getting the Words by Heart, Child, as getting the Word of Life wrought in your Heart.
Child.
How is that Father?
Fath.
Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it.
(p. 29)
May I Father! Then I'll get it all without Book.
Fath.
It is not so much the getting the Words by Heart, Child, as getting the Word of Life wrought in your Heart.
Child.
How is that Father?
Fath.
Why, Child, to have the Spirit of God which wrote that Word, print it in your Mind, and give you Understanding both to read and obey it.
(p. 29)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
27 entries in ESTC (1715, 1717, 1718, 1720, 1725, 1727, 1732, 1734, 1741, 1742, 1755, 1761, 1766, 1787, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1800).
Text from The Family Instructor: In Three Parts; I. Relating to Fathers and Children. II. To Masters and Servants. III. To Husbands and Wives. (London: Printed for Eman. Matthews, 1715). <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP>
Text from The Family Instructor: In Three Parts; I. Relating to Fathers and Children. II. To Masters and Servants. III. To Husbands and Wives. (London: Printed for Eman. Matthews, 1715). <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
03/12/2014
