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The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect,…The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect,…
The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ...The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ...
London: printed by J.A. for Tho. Cockeril, 1693
Letter: THE EPISTLE To the Congregation Assembling in Mugwell-street, London.
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.
Amongst those that thus did meet, some were such as were Catechized by me twenty years since, whom now God hath made Masters of Families, Religiously maintaining the holy Worship of God daily in your Houses, and have often said to me, you ⟨image 3⟩still bless God for the good you got then, and for the foundation thereby was laid, on which you still continue to build.
Amongst those that thus did meet, some were such as were Catethized by me twenty years since, whom now God hath made Masters of Families, Religiously maintaining the holy Worship of God daily in your Houses, and have often said to me, you ⟨image 3⟩still bless God for the good you got then, and for the foundation thereby was laid, on which you still continue to build.
And tho there are now above fifty Youths, and Young Men, that twice every Lords-day (usually) present themselves as Catechumens, yet considering the Ignorance of many Married and Ancient People, I lately preached and urged such with many Arguments to get into their Memories the Catechism, as the nearest and easiest way that I can think of to help them to the Knowledge of the first Principles of Christian Religion, which (alas!) they are yet unacquainted with, and offered them my Assistance by private Instructions (at first) to understand what they should this way commit to memory.
And tho there are now above fifty Youths, and Young Men, that twice every Lords-day (usually) present themselves as Catechumens, yet considering the Ignorance of many Married and Ancient People, I lately preached and urged such with many Arguments to get into their Memories the Catechism, as the nearest and easiest way that I can think of to help them to the Knowledge of the first Principles of Christian Religion, which (alas!) they are yet unaccquainted with, and offered them my Assistance by private Instructions (at first) to understand what they should this way commit to memory.