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Typical Instruction, Considered and Illustrated
Typical Instruction Considered and Illustrated Author:John Peers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: Hatchard Subjects: Religious education Religion / Christian Education / General Religion / Education Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gen... more »eral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. The suitability of such a mode of Instruction to Mankind in general, but particularly during the early ages. In the first period of its existence, the church consisted of Adam and Eve only. It could only extend its numbers as their progeny increased and grew up to maturity. These, impelled by necessity to provide by their own endeavours for the supply of all their temporal wants, would disperse themselves over the face of the earth to seek such situations as might most easily afford them the requisites of life. The motives of such a dispersion would continue through many generations, during which it would be impossible for any considerable division of labour to take place, and till then, attention to their domestic cares would find employment for all their exertions. Had written instructions then been communicated, they could not have found the leisure required to multiply copies of them: not to mention their being entirely unprovided with every material necessary for such purposes. It was certainly within the range of the powers of almighty government to have furnished them with those means of perpetuating instruction which we now enjoy; but these are the fruits of increased knowledge of the arts, and derived from the gradually improved exercise of the natural faculties of the mind, and we have no reason to suppose that the divine government in any age, or under any circumstances, ever made such the subject of a particular interference. The resources of the almighty ...« less