FIRST LESSONS IN THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WRITTEN FOR THE USE OF HIS OWN CHILDREN BY THE REV. EDWARD SEROCOLD PEARCE, M. A. F.S. A. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS; M.DCCC.XXXII. PREFACE. IN these Lessons a connected view of the Fall and Redemption is presented in a very small compass. Wherever it was possible, the Author has made use of the words of Scripture: carefully avoiding those passages to which a child might attach a wrong sense. The few Notes which are inserted are intended to create a taste at an early age for a rational interpretation of the Bible: and the Questions are so arranged as not only b |