[48] “Parentes et Pædagogi pueros olim cum primum per ætatem sapere, et intelligere cœpissent, primis Christianæ religionis rudimentis diligenter instituebant, ut pietatem unà penè cum lacte nutricis imbiberent, et à primis statim cunis, virtutis incunabilis ad vitam illam beatam alerentur. Quem etiam ad usum breves libri, quos Catechismos nostri appellant, conscribebantur.”
Noelli Catechismus de Baptismo.
[49] 2 Cor. xiii. 14.
[50] W. Weston, B. D. Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge; and vicar of Campden, Gloucestershire. Camb. 1746.
[51] Pref. p. ii.
[52] Pref. p. ii.
[53] Ded. p. iv.—“The best compliment I can make your Lordship on the occasion is the true one, that I have a good opinion of the present performance myself,” &c.
[54] Pref. p. iii.
[55] Pref. p. iii.
[56] Pref. p. ii.