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To
the
Reader.."
the
fame
man
few
and
many?
I
have
therefore
put but
few
into the
Catechifm
to
be
Remembred,
and
put
the
reft
in
the
Expoftion to be Read.Thpfe
that
think that
fo
fhort a fummary
as
the Creed,
Lords
Prayer
and
Decalogue,
with
the Baptifmal
Covenant, which make
up
the
firft
Catechifm,
is
unufeful,
are not
of
my judgement, nor
of the
an-
cient
Churches, who
made thefe
the
tat
of
mens
Chriftianity,and
fitnefs for
Chriftian Communi-
on.
I
know
that
the
Expofition
of
the
longer
Catechifm,
is
too
hard
for
the
ignorant
that
have
no
.Inftruáer
to
open
it
further to them
; and
that
the
firft
part
(about
God)
is
harder
than the
reft
:
But
that
is
from
the
incomprehenfiblenefs
of
God,
with
whom yet order
requireth
us
to
begin;
and
it
is fo
in moft fyftemes
of
Theologie
:
And
the Reader
that
underftandeth it
not
at
firji,
muff
come
back,
and
Rudy
it again;
For He that
is
the
firft
andthe
lait,
muff
be
the
firft
and
lait
of
all thefe ftudies.
I had thought
to
have
done as
others,
and
have
added another
Catechifm
with
numerous and
fhorter
anfwers But
I
was
afraid
of
overdoing.
The
hard
paffages
which
the
younger
do
not
reach,
are
not
unufeful
to the
riper,
who
muff
have
their parts.
The
Lord
be
your
Teacher,
and
biefs
(when
we
are
dead
and
gone) the
Inf}ru
&ions
which we
leave
you,
ac-
cording
to
his
VVord
and
VVill
The