AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

IN TWO PARTS.

1. AN EXPLANATION of the most material WORDS and THINGS
in the CHURCH CATECHISM.

II. AN EXPLANATION of the TWO COVENANTS; the GREAT
FEASTS AND FASTS of our CHURCH; and some RELIGIOUS
TERMS designed to Prepare People for understanding SERMONS,
the HOLY SCRIPTURES, and other good Books.

TO WHIGH ARE ADDED

SHORT FORMS OF PRAYER, &c.

FOR SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

BY H. CROSSMAN, M. A.
RECTOR OF LITTLE BROMLEY, ESSEX.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,
Booksellers to the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge,
NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

135

THE

PREFACE.

THE great duty of Family Instruction is, doubtless, of the utmost importance to religion, and the best foundation for a Christian belief and practice; but as necessary and beneficial as this duty is, it is most notoriously neglected in many places especially country parishes, where people mind only the putting poor children and servants to work for their bread, but take no care about their precious and immortal souls. How many children are there of ten, twelve, and thirteen years, who scarcely know the God that made them? How many young persons