Excerpt from Family Exercises, or the Godly Parents' Assistant: Being an Attempt to Render Family Religion Entertaining, as Well as Profitable and Instructive, by a Series of Subjects, Particularly Adapted to the Use of Families Many unhappy children hear a countlefs number of oaths in one year, but never hear one prayer from their parents to their dying moments! The company alfo to which they are perpetually expofed, and the fermons they hear, may even the books which are put into their hands, all tend to forward their eternal deftruetion! Can words exprefs, or 15 it in the power of the human mind to conceive, what companions fuch will be to thofe who caufed them thus to be educated! 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.