PREFACE. THE following Essay is not intended to supersede the use of any similar treatise on Domestic Duties: on the contrary, it is distinctly avowed, that this will furnish an incomplete manual without others; such as those of Messrs. Morison, Anderson, and James. In dwelling, however, upon what ought to be the practice of Christians, the above excellent works have not stated out fully the theological principle from whence their several duties emanate, although they have all alluded to them. Many points will here appear, for the same reasons, to be passed over too slightly, and others enlarged upon with disproportionate minuteness. But it b |