New-England Primer: A Reprint of the Earliest Known Edition, With Many Facsimiles and Reproductions, and an Historical Introduction (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from New-England Primer: A Reprint of the Earliest Known Edition, With Many Facsimiles and Reproductions, and an Historical IntroductionRoad to knowledge and to salvation; but with prose as bare of beauty as the whitewash of their churches, with poetry as rough and stem as their storm-torn coast, with pictures as crude and unfinished as their own glacial smoothed boulders, between stiff oak covers, which symbolized the contents, the children were tutored, until, from being unregenerate, and as Jonathan Edwards said, young vipers, and infinitely more hateful than vipers to God, they attained that happy state when, as expressed by Judge Sewall's child, they were afraid they should goe to hell,' and were stirred up dreadfully to seek God. No earthly or heavenly rewards were offered to.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.