PREFACE TO " A PRESERVATIVE FROM THE SINS AND FOLLIES OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH." THEmost effectual way to teach children and youth toavoid any thing that is evil, is to represent it to them in a plain and lively manner, and that in particular instances; setting the sins, vices and follies before them in their hateful colours, and their dreadful consequences : and this may be done with better success if we let them see howmuch these follies are contrary to reason, and that both reason and scripture join to forbid the same sins : but it was not possible to do this at large in any of the foregoing Catechisms : I have therefore attempted it in the following scheme, which is drawn up in away of question for greater ease to the understandingand memory. I do not call this a Catechism, because I do not propose it tobe learned by heart : butif it be frequently read over by young persons, their teachers may bring them into aneasy acquaintancewith it, may give them warningof these vices, and impress the warningoften on their consciences : thus by the divine blessing it may becomea happy preservative from many of the sins and frailties which are incident tomankind, especially in their younger parts of life. A PRESERVATIVE FROM THE SINS AND FOLLIES OF CHILDHOODAND YOUTH; OR, A briefAccount of the Sins Vices and Frailties, to which Child- hood and Youth are liable, and of which they shouldbe warned early ; drawn up in the Way of Question andAn- swer, with Arguments against them takenfromReason and Scripture. I. QUESTION. WHAT are the chiefdangers that attend childhoodand youth ? Answer. Weare indanger ofmany sins ; and there are many frailties and follies attend us inyounger years. 2. Q. What is it that is most properly called sin? A. Doing what God has forbidden, or neglecting to do what God bath required.
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