To the Reader

IGNORANT persons cannot remember long and many words, nor understand a brief style and few words. This maketh it impossible to write

a Catechism that shall not be unsuitable either to the understanding or the memory of such. I must therefore desire the Teacher to make up the unavoidable defect, by opening the meaning, — especially of the Catechisms, — to the children and servants, when they have learned and say the words. Read the Instructions often to them and press all as you go, on their affections. For the bare words without a present guide may else be all lost.