REPRESENT THE GUILT AND EVIL CONSEQUENCES
OF NEGLECTING THEM.

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PREFACE.

THE religion of Jefus, in its doctrines, precepts

and inftitutions, is one connected whole; in proportion as one part is overlooked, the force of all will be weakened. He who feels, as every Chriftian muft, his proneness to let flip the most important truths of the word of God, will be thankful that the Lord has graciously employed various means to preferve in our minds the remembrance of them. He has revealed his will in the moft engaging and affecting manner, and has also inftituted various ordinances of worship, all which reprefent, and are memorials of the doctrines of his word.

If, in reading the hiftory of the life of a great man, we had at the fame time an opportunity of feeing his actions delineated in the most beautiful and correct paintings, it would make a far deeper impreffion on our minds than the mere narrative.

Things to the mind before unknown,

And ent'ring by the ear alone,

Draw less attention and surprise,

Than had they enter'd by the eyes *.

The ordinances of Chrift are just fo many fenfible images of the doctrines he taught. When these are

* Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aures,
Quam quæ funt oculis fubjecta fidelibus.

Horat. Ars Poet, tranflated by Dr Stedman.