Excerpt from An Example of Plain Catechising Upon the Assembly's Shorter Catechism: Humbly Offer'd as an Help for Instructing the Young and Ignorant in the Knowledge of the Principles and Duties of the Christian Religion, With the Grounds Thereof, and That in a Very Comprehensive Manner In the primitive church, Catecbgfng was very much their work. The had many minifiers fet apart for it, called Carc cbg'fl and undry of their molt eminent lights were (0 called, for their excelling and diligence in this good work. Before per fons were admitted to the full communion of the church, they were from time to time to be catechifed, and kept under trial; and, till fuch time as they were judged fit _to partake of the famment, they were called cake/jamaal. 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.