YOUNG LADY'S BOOK OF PIETY: A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF CHRISTIAN DUTIES FOR THE FORMATION OF THE FEMALE CHARACTER. From the last Glasgow Edition. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY LEAVITT, LORD & CO., BOSTON-CROCKER & BREWSTER, PREFACE. WE write for no sect or party in particular, but for all sects and parties, for the universal public; and it has been our aim in this publication, to admit into our pages no principle or precept which any candid Christian would refuse to sanction. To others we leave the necessary task of elucidating Christian doctrine by fair and honorable controversy. We rather choose to confine our labors to the practical part of Christianity. If the exposition of Christian precepts and the exhortations to the practice of virtue and piety, which are here laid down, shall receive due consideration from those to whom they are addressed, we shall not fail of our reward. We shall receive it in the blessings of those PREFACE. We write for no sect or party in particular, but for all sects and parties, for the universal public; and it has been our aim in this publication, to admit into our pages no principle or precept which any candid Christian would refuse to sanction. To others we leave the necessary task of elucidating Christian doctrine by fair and honorable controversy. We rather choose to confine our labors to the practical part of Christianity. If the exposition of Christian precepts and the exhortations to the practice of virtue and piety, which are here laid down, shall receive due consideration from those to whom they are addressed, we shall not fail of our reward. We shall receive it in the blessings of those |