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The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley
The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley.
London: printed for John Dunton, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When he visited any Family, they expected his Instruction, as a Sucking Child the Breast.
Yet all this did not suffice him but all those Ministers towards whom he contributed maintenance, which were not a few, he engaged them to set up Catechising, and enquired how it thrived.
And all those Ministers with whom he conversed, he provoked to set up Catechising.
And all those Ministers with whom he conversed, he provok'd to set up Catechising.
He gave away, I can't say, how many thousands of Catechisms, many hundreds with Expositions upon them; neither did he confine his Catechumenists to the Assemblies Catechism (though the Lord Primate of Armagh said 'twas the best Extant ) but he gave very many of Doctor Cumber's, and the Principles of the Christian Religion cleared, and confirmed by the Articles and Homilies of the Church of England by Mr. Thomas Adams.
He gave away, I can't say, how many thousands of Catechisms, many hundreds with Expositions upon them; neither did he consine his Catechumenists to the Assemblies Catechism (though the Lord Primate of Armagh said 'twas the best Extant ) but he gave very many of Doctor Cumber's, and the Principles of the Christian Religion cleared, and confirmed by the Articles and Homilies of the Church of England by Mr. Thomas Adams.