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I think any parent can delircr him&elf from his Christian Dbligittion«, by rolltn}^ them upon cno or upon many teachers; but that it is lawful to take help in that which ihoy themselves are nf>t qualified to perform. But stfll. a school under a schoolmaster, and pupils under a preceptor, are in the eye of God, and of the church, which is the proper guardian of God's children, nothing different from a help and supplement to the families from whom the children arc dravni. The pupils are still immortal spirits, as children of Christ to be trained for bis kingdom. The father cannot unAo the surreniler which he vnade of his child at baptism, or annul the obliga- tion which he took upon himself to fulfil the stewardship of its immortality- Tie teacher cannot step between the father and God, to take upon bimsell a part, or in any way to counteract the teiior, thereof. He can only offer him^^If to help in the fulfilment of the t^renant ; and^ in all kis acting, muiit conform to llic s\nri\ and intan- LioD of the biptisjnal coreoaoL He is not a Uurd iarty» but called ii\ by ouo of the two panics, lo lelp him ia hia onerous charge; and Ibis I con- ceive to be Uic true doctrine of the pTtccplw's UeDce it 15, that in the pnmitire church thi» (llicc vrasgiren in chjifge tocatechiAt«, who wci« ipproved of the church, and acted under the jjCareful eu peri Dten dance of the bishop* and Y the church. And heoce ako, in the ihools of Scotland, the teacher \b aUo li !u|)on a£ an cedes iostical person, being jui f by Uie Presbytery, aiwl vi^it^d by the Pieibylery, generally aUu prt-eeulor and se^^siou-clerlL, and pften, when of sufficient experience, an elder like- .'wUe. Hence, moreover, in aU tlic parish dcbooU, ie Scriptures were made the means and th« end j>f instructioot and catechisms introduced only for Irschin^, in the way be^t stiiLed to the young, the ,|>riivciplcs vf religious knowledge. Hence also, lII universities in Europe were likewise ecclesi- 'oRtical foundations, conducted for the most part ty the doctors of tlic church, according to the iHncipIe that the education of Christian children Vas to be undoTlukeu at>d carried on in the cpirit 'of the baptismal coveuout, for the end of tnuninsi: the spirit to that immoiial inherilance which iriat declared himself to have purcbaaed for it Iho sacnunent of baptism. Now, titlirr you niu«t annul me the baptij covenant, and destroy the futHlamental pi if the Qo){>el. that our life, and all we fondly ^pM our uwn, are purchased by Chr