248 cot, pow angs famííp 'Book. P. Your delres are reafonable and feafonable : And both thefe are done in the two fheets which I publifhed for Families fome years agoe. It is them therefore that I fhall give you in anfwer toyour delires. But I muff tell you that the neceílity of Brevity con® firained me to bring much into fo narrow a room, that the ftyle is too elofe, and concife, for your ignorant family ; unlefs you will read it very often over to them and remember that every word is to be marked, and explain it to them in more wordsas you go. For once reading, efpecially if it be carelefly, will not ferve for the underftanding of fo fhort and dole a ftyle. Ignorant hearers cannot rreeive much in few words, but muff have a little matter inmany words oft end oft repeated, that rifeir wits mayhave leifure to work upon it. And this will ferve you inftead of a Cateçhifm, while in one difcourfe all the heads of the Cateçhifm, are delivered in a plain and praical manner. So that ifyou will read it over once a month to your Family, and make them learn the heads of the fecond part by memory, it will help them unto a practical knowledge. But yet that you may have the fame thing feveral wayes, for fear of lofìng it, I will hereafter give you a Catechifn for your Family betides : But this {hall ferve for this tiayes work, .The
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