. The family instructor. : In three parts. With a recommendatory letter. Family in LOIS!DON. The IntroduEiion to the Firft P ART* Atcchifing of Children, and m-ftruling them in the Principlesof the Chriftian ReHgion, hasbeen a PrAdlice in the Church asAncient as Religion it felf;andbefides the Nature of the Thi^ngwhich requires, it was deducdfrom that ftriA Injundion laidupon the Children of ifraei\Deut. 6. 7. Artdthoit (Ifalt tench them diligently nntothy Children^ fpeaking of the Laws and Statuteswhich God then commanded Mofes. And again, Denti4., 9 Bnt teach them te thy Sons^ and thy Sons S
. The family instructor. : In three parts. With a recommendatory letter. Family in LOIS!DON. The IntroduEiion to the Firft P ART* Atcchifing of Children, and m-ftruling them in the Principlesof the Chriftian ReHgion, hasbeen a PrAdlice in the Church asAncient as Religion it felf;andbefides the Nature of the Thi^ngwhich requires, it was deducdfrom that ftriA Injundion laidupon the Children of ifraei\Deut. 6. 7. Artdthoit (Ifalt tench them diligently nntothy Children^ fpeaking of the Laws and Statuteswhich God then commanded Mofes. And again, Denti4., 9 Bnt teach them te thy Sons^ and thy Sons is not the Defign of this Undertaking to give alift of Authorities in Scripture for Catechiftng andInftruding of Children, or the Commendations andTeftimonies given there to thofe that did inftruditheir Children in the Knowledge and Pradiceof Reli-rion: That eminent Text isfufficient to this, beingthe blefled Charader given to Abraham from Godhimfelf, / know Abraham, fays the Lord, Gen. \^, he will Command his Children and his HsnOjold^fterhim^^c, B Btrt. 2 IntroduStion. But wc live in an Age that does not want fo ruchto know their Duty as to pra5life tt \ rot Co much t$he tanght to know^ as to be made obedient to whatthey already know^ and therefore i (hall take up noTime in proving this Matter to be a Duty, thereshardly a Wretch fobardned but will readily acknow-ledge it. . *, .„ But we are arrived at a Time in which Men willfrankly own a thing to be their Duty which at thefame time they dare omit the Pradice of; and innu-merable Arts, Shifts and Turns they find out to makethat omiffion eafy to themfelves,and cxcufablc to others One Part of this Work is pointed /«>c^ ^if poUible,to make them blurti at their unaccountable Raflmels,and if that may work at all, to fiiame them oat offuch a fordid inconfiftcnt Courfe as that of living inthe allowd Omifiign of what they acknowledge to betheir Duty. -, , .: . , ^- , The way 1 have taken for this, is enttrtly New^
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