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A new family instructor : containing, a brief and clear defence of the Christian religion in general, against the errors of the atheists, Jews, deists & sceptics: and of the Protestant Religion in Particular, Against the Superstitions of the Church of Rome. In familiar discourses between a father and his children. in two parts. Part I. Containing a Father's Instructions to his Son on his going to Travel into Popish Countries; And to the rest of his Children on his Son's turning Papist, confirming them in the Protestant Religion against the Absurdities of Popery. With the effectual Arguments he made use of to reclaim his apostatized Son from the Errors of the Church of Rome. Part II. Instructions against the Three Grand Errors of the Times: Asserting, 1st, The Divine Authority of the Scriptures against the Deists; Demonstrating, 2dly, The messias to be already come, against the Atheists and Jews. Defending, 3dly, The Divinity of Jesus Christ, against our Modern Hereticks. With a Poem on the Divine Nature of Jesus Christ, in Blank Verse. By th author of the Family instructor.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Families--Religious life.
Families.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv,[1],384p. )
Other Title:
New family instructor
Place of Publication:
London : printed for C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Warner, in Pater-Noster Row, 1732.
Notes:
The author of The family instructor = Daniel Defoe.
A reissue of the first edition of 1727, with a cancel titlepage.
Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T186418.
OCLC:
642511376

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