HÆCLAUS, HIC APEX SAPIENTIÆEST, E A VIVENTEM This is true Praife, this lifts our Wisdom high; LONDON: Printed for ALEX'. HOGG, No 16, Pater-Nofter-Row. MDCCLXXVIII, ค RECOMMENDATORY PREFACE. 'N an age of uncommon diffipation and levity, IN and in which every expedient is invented, that can vitiate the mind, and corrupt the heart; the REAL CHRISTIAN and TRUE PATRIOT fhould lofe no opportunity to make an humble and bold attempt to ftop the current of vice, which must be attended with the most fatal effects. "Rari quippe "boni the god are farce and few but however, it ill becomes them to be idle in the best cause ; while those of an oppofite character are fo refolute, industrious, and persevering, in the worst. '' THE pious education of youth is an object of the utmost importance to the fafety, the peace, and profperity of the commonwealth. One of the ftatutes of Henry IV. of France begins thus: "The hap"piness of kingdoms and people, and efpecially of "a chriftian ftate, depends upon the good educa"tion of youth whereby the minds of the crude "and unfkilful are civilized and fashioned; and "fuch as would otherwise be ufelefs, and of no va"lue, are qualified to discharge the feveral offices of "the ftate with ability and fuccefs: by that they |