The Entertaining, moral, and religious repository; containing upwards of three score separate performances, all of which are written in a simple yet pleasing stile [sic], and are eminently calculated for the amusement and instruction of the youth of both sexes. : Published by a society in Great Britain, instituted for the beneficent purpose of aiding the intention of His Majesty, as expressed in his royal proclamation for the suppression of vice and immorality. : Vol I-[II].

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The Entertaining, moral, and religious repository; containing upwards of three score separate performances, all of which are written in a simple yet pleasing stile [sic], and are eminently calculated for the amusement and instruction of the youth of both sexes. : Published by a society in Great Britain, instituted for the beneficent purpose of aiding the intention of His Majesty, as expressed in his royal proclamation for the suppression of vice and immorality. : Vol I-[II].

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Elizabeth-town [N.J.]: :: Printed by Shepard Kollock for Cornelius Davis, no. 94, Water-Street, New-York.,

1798.

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Christian life.

Juvenile literature -- 1798.

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Contents

• title page
• THE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN
  • THE SHEPHERD's HYMN.
• THE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN.
• THE HISTORY OF TOM WHITE, THE POSTILION.
  • HYMN ON DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
• THE WAY TO PLENTY; OR THE SECOND PART OF TOM WHITE.
  • THE ROOF-RAISING.
  • THE SHEEP-SHEARING.
  • THE HARD WINTER.
  • THE WHITE LOAF.
  • THE PARISH MEETING.
  • RICE MILK.
  • RICE PUDDING.
• THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BAKER. BY THE REV. MR. GILPIN.
• FUNERAL SERMON.
• THE TWO SOLDIERS.
• title page
• THE HISTORY OF CHARLES JONES, THE FOOTMAN.
• The CHEAPSIDE APPRENTICE; or the HISTO∣RY of Mr. FRANCIS H—.
  • THE HYMN.
• THE STORY OF POOR TRICKET, THE GAMESTER.
• BETTY BROWN, THE St. GiLES's ORANGE GIRL: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF Mrs. SPONGE, THE MONEY LENDER.
• BLACK GILES, THE POACHER;
• BLACK GILES, THE POACHER;
• SOME NEW THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW-YEAR.
  • An HYMN for the NEW-YEAR.
• A TRUE EXAMPLE OF THE INTERPOSITION OF PROVIDENCE, IN THE DISCOVERY AND PUNISHMENT OF MURDER.
  • The following observations of this wise and famous Ma∣gistrate, being unhappily, just as well suited to the present time, as the time when that great man wrote them, I hope they may be useful to my readers.
• THE TOUCH STONE; OR, THE WAY TO KNOW A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
• ONESIMUS; OR, THE RUN-AWAY SERVANT CONVERTED A TRUE STORY, SHEWING What a wonderful Improvement in his Condition O∣NESIMUS experienced after he became a Christian.
  • An Application of the above Story to the case of those unhappy Men and Women, who, like Onesimus, have lest their home and have got into a bad way of life.
• LOOK AT HOME; OR, THE ACCUSERS ACCUSED.
  • A HYMN.
• THE GRAND ASSIZES; OR, GENERAL GAOL DELIVERY.
• BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURTHENS; OR, THE VALLEY OF TEARS. A VISION.
  • THE WIDOW.
  • THE HUSBAND.
  • THE KIND NEIGHBOR.
  • THE CLERGYMAN.
  • THE NEGROES.
• THE Strait Gate and the Broad Way, BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE VALLEY OF TEARS.
• THE COTTAGE COOK; OR, MRS. JONES's CHEAP DISHES;
  • RECEIPT I.
  • RECEIPT II.
  • RECEIPT III.
  • ANOTHER.
  • FRIENDLY HINTS.
• THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
  • ON RECOMMENDATIONS.
  • SUBSCRIPTIONS.
• THE HISTORY OF HESTER WILMOT; OR, THE SECOND PART OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
• THE HISTORY OF HESTER WILMOT; OR, THE NEW GOWN.
• ON THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD's SUPPER.
  • On the manner in which Christ appointed the Sacra∣ment of the Lord's Supper.
  • What it is to receive the Sacrament unworthily.
  • On the self-examination that is proper before we deter∣mine to receive the Sacrament.
  • On the dispositions which we should feel at the time of communicating.
  • On the character and conduct which becomes us after having received the Sacrament.
• THE HISTORY OF MR. FANTOM, THE NEW FASHIONED PHILOSOPHER, AND HIS MAN WILLIAM.
• THE HUBBUB; OR, THE HISTORY OF FARMER RUSSEL, The hard-hearted Overseer.
• TAWNY RACHEL, OR, THE FORTUNE TELLER; With some account of dreams, omens, and conjurers.
• THE EXPLANATION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
  • FIRST COMMANDMENT. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me.
  • SECOND COMMANDMENT. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: and shew mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
  • THIRD COMMANDMENT. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who ta∣keth his name in vain.
  • FOURTH COMMANDMENT. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Sin days shalt thou labor, and do all that thou hast to do.—But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, thy maid∣servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallwed it.
• EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF BAPTISM.
  • Address to those Parents who are about to bring a Child to be Baptized.
• THE Servant Man turned Soldier; OR, THE FAIR WEATHER CHRISTIAN A PARABLE.
• THE GENERAL RESURRECTION.
  • An Hymn on the second coming of Christ.
• PRAYERS TO BE USED BY A CHILD OR YOUNG PERSON—BY A GROWN PERSON—BY THE MASTER OR MISTRESS OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL—AND BY THE MASTER OR MISTRESS OF A FAMILY.
  • Address to individuals on the subject of the following Prayers.
    • ADDRESS TO PARENTS.
    • TO HEADS OF FAMILIES.
    • ADDRESS TO MASTERS AND MISTRESSES OF SCHOOLS.
    • ON FAMILY PRAYER.
  • General Directions, applile chiefly to the case of private Prayer.
  • A Prayer to be used by a Child or Young Person, both in the Morning and Evening.
  • Morning Prayer for a Grown Person.
  • An Evening Prayer for a Grown Person.
  • Morning Prayer for a Sunday School.
  • Evening Prayer for a Sunday School.
  • Morning Prayer for a Family
  • Evening Prayer for a Family.
  • Prayer for a Family on Sunday Morning.
  • Prayer for a Family on Sunday Evening.