An introduction to the knowledge of the Christian religion

grave. And shall these poor souls perish for lack of knowledge, and you be blameless? Shall you not be called to an account for this negligence and uncharitableness at the judgment-seat of Christ, that your children and servants were ignorant, and you instructed them not? Know of a surety, that what God says to the careless watchman in Ezekiel, ch. iii. 17, 18, shall be the portion of every careless Parent and master of a Family; and if any soul perish through your negligence, that soul will God require at your hands.

I shall only add here my earnest Prayers to Almighty God, who can make the meanest instruments effectual to His glory and the good of souls, that he would be pleased to give a blessing to this little work, that it may be successful to the implanting in the minds of young

and ignorant persons a worthy sense of God and Religion, and to the laying a good foundation for Christian Knowledge, that they may increase therein ever more and more until they come unto the everlasting Kingdom of Heaven, through the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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CONTENTS.

AN Explanation of the most material words and Things used in the Church Catechism

An Explanation of the Two Covenants; the great Feasts and Fasts of our Church; with

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some Religious Terms not generally known xxx An Exhortation to Prayer

Verses on the same .....

General Directions for a godly Life

Receiving the Lord's

for the Lord's Day..

Supper

A prayer