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A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are…
A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.
London: printed for Edw. Brewster, 1674
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.
AN ADMONITION TO THE READERS.
I Am not insensible, that this little tract may seem to many, as a thing born out of due time. But they that have their spiritual senses exercised, and have seen and tasted, how jejune, and lifeless, and insipid the more public exercises of religion somewhere are; will be easily convinced, that now they are called to double their diligence in family duties. And sith it is the great charge of Householders (a), to teach their Children, and their (b), households after them, and to (c) catechize them in the way wherein ⟨image 3⟩they should go (whereunto the present exigencies, do more than ordinarily oblige them) it may not seem altogether unseasonable, to have added this plain and familiar help for their assistance.
I Am not insensible, that this little tract may seem to many, as a thing born out of due time. But they that have their spiritual senses exercised, and have seen and tasted, how jejune, and lifeless, and insipid the more publick exercises of religion somewhere are; will be easily convinced, that now they are called to double their diligence in family duties. And sith it is the great charge of Housholders (a), to teach their Children, and their (b), housholds after them, and to (c) catechize them in the way wherein ⟨image 3⟩