The pious country parishioner instructed how to spend every day, through the whole course of his life, in a religious and acceptable manner. Advice how to keep the Lord's-day holy. A course of reading the Holy Scriptures, wherein is shewn how much they out-do in eloquence, all the rules of human art. A right method of education; the ill consequence of with-holding instruction from children; how to subdue their passions, and make them a comfort to their friends, and a blessing to the world. The feasts and fasts. To which are added collects on several occasions: also, a discourse concerning the indispensible, though, in country parishes, much neglected duty of receiving the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper: wherein the nature of it is described: the obligations of frequenting it enforced: all the excuses, usually brought for the neglect of it, answered: the ignorant person taught what he must do in order to be a worthy communicant. And because all must die, rules are given for a devou

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• Stanley Crowder ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, and B. Law, M.DCC.LXVIII [1768] The seventeenth edition, corrected and improved.; ..

Publication year

1768

ESTC No.

T491516

Grub Street ID

435402

Description

x, [6], 236 p. ; 12°.

Note

Below imprint, with worm damage affecting text in copy catalogued: [Price] bound [1s.] 6d. or 15s. a doz. to those who give them away

This is a different setting to the 1764 sixteenth edition

Signatures: A]2] a]6] B-K]1]2] L]8] M]2.