RULES and ORDERS OF THE STEPNEY SOCIETY, With an Account of the END and DESIGN of this BENEVOLENT and POLITICAL INSTITUTION; THE Great Improvements it feems capable of to promote the most useful Industry, AND Encourage PARENTS and CHILDREN in numerous poor and induftrious Families: A LIST of the STEWARD S From the Commencement in 1674, to 1760. 247 . The Way of the flothful Man is as an Hedge of Thorns; but the Way of the Righteous is made plain. PROV. Ch. xv. Ver. 19.. ONDON: то тнЕ REA DE R. I T seemeth neceffary to inform you, that this is not the Book intended for the Ufe of the Boys themselves there is another Edition in Twelves, and bound in Sheep, intitled, “ Inftructions to Apprentices placed out by the Stepney Society to Marine Trades ; with thirty-four Prayers, and some select Hymns and Ejaculations: To which is added, the Archbishop of Tuam's plain Account of Christianity:" in which fome few Alterations are made, and the Introduction, together with the Rules and Orders, &c. and Lift of Stewards, are entirely omitted. |