Excerpt from The Protestant-Dissenter's Catechism: Containing, I. A Brief History of the Non-Conformists; II. The Reasons of the Dissent From the National Church; Designed to Instruct and Establish Young Persons Among the Dissenters in the Principles of Nonconformity In order, to promote the fizcjce/i' of this work, the author begs leave to exprefs his carnell Wifll that thofe who are pleafed to encourage it, would not only recommend the care/id para/211 of it to thofe into whofe hands they may put it, but take forge pains with any young perfons more immediately under their care, to make them. Mailers of the fubjee'r of which it treats; and examine into their proficiency, by aflting them the principal gueflions in the Catechifm, though it Ihould not be thought neceflhry forithem to commit thefanfwers to memory verbatim, 'but only to anfwer in their own zgwords which will indeed afford a better proof of their underllandr ing the fubjea. -ir is alfo much to be wifhed that thofe whofe time and circumflances will admit of it, might have larger works put intp their hands, when they are mailers of this, with a view to perfee'tftheir knowledge of the Billory and the Pr1nc1ples of the. Nonconformifls, to which this is only defigned as an introduhlion Of the principal of thele, therefore, a Catalogue is added at the end. 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.