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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 devout behaviour in the time of sickness, and directions laid down how to prepare for a happy change at death.
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