Excerpt from Advice to Parents, Containing Directions How to Perform the Duties Which They Owe Their Children: With Some Motives Exciting Thereunto But do not wholly depend on school-masters, for teach ing them the knowledge of the principles of religion. You are bound by the divine precept to instruct them your selves, Deut. Vi. 7. Fore cited. Frequently examine them, in order both to try, and improve their knowledge, especially onthe evening of the lond's Day. Where this is duly practised, the good effects are noticeable, in childrens progress in knowledge; and no less observa ble are the unhappy fruits of negligence in this, or other like respects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.