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Title: New family instructor; : in familiar discourses between a father and his children, on the most essential points of the Christian religion... With a poem upon the divine nature of Jesus Christ.
Year: 1727 (1720s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Subjects: Family Religious education
Publisher: London: : Printed by T. Warner...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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n the Principles of a Nation, and tismother Thing to banifli and extirpate the. People.The Reformation was wrought, as the Chriftian Re-igion was firft planted, by Preaching the Golpel, not)y Fighting and Blood. St, Peter^ St. Paiil^ and»he reft of the bleffed Apoftles, planted the Chriftianaith in the World j Luther^ Calvin^ and the reft ofkbe Reformers, planted the Reformation, and all byIbe lame Way, ^iz. By the Foolijhnefs of Preaching ;Hoe Holy Spirit glorioufly concurring: Paganifm, at-^tempted the Firft by Lyons, Racks, Fire and Tor-^e : The Papifts attempted the Laft by Armies andruifadoes, that is, by the Sword, and by Fire and^aggot, by the Gallies and the Inquifition j and both(lave lucceeded alike j as no one Nation, once madeChriftians, were ever brought back to Paganifin 5 foao one Nation, once made Proteftants, were ever(calmly and peaceably) brought back to Popery. Datigk Tis enough. Sir; tis very plain, that it £)5 and may it ever be fo. ^he End of the SMh Dialogue.
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Dialogue 2t4 ^ New Family In&ru^ior.Dialogue VII. TH E Brother had now run his Length : h<had been a hafty Convert to Popery j and, afuch often are, was become a mighty Bigot, eaterup with Superftition and Ceremony, and, which waftill worfe, tho^ he was riot in Orders, took uporhim to be a kind of a MifHonary, for the Conver-fion of his Friends, preaching Popery to thefrwhere-ever he came. This Zeal carryd him even to Indecencies in hiFathers Family ; As to his Father himfelf, he treat-ed him with a kind of Diftindbion, as he was a Fa-ther 5 and, indeed, becaufe his Father was a Marof Spirit, as well as Senfe, who kept him at a du«Piftance, and would not take any Appearance oiDifrefped: at his Hand, without Refentment; main-taining his juft Authority in his Family, and eitheiwould be conversd with as he ought to be, or notbe conversd with at all. But in the Family, and among his Brothers andSifters, which, as I hinted at the Beginning, werenumerous, he was quite another Man, a

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