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AGE OF ENQUIRY,

Christian's Pocket Companion

AND

DAILY ASSISTANT;

CALCULATED ALSO FOR THE

BENEFIT OF THE RISING GENERATION, IN LEADING THEM INTO TRUTH.

BY ELIAS SMITH,

Him shall ye hear in all things.-Peter.
Train up a child in the way he should go,-Solomon,

EXETER:

PUBLISHED BY ABEL BROWN, AND SOLD AT HIS BOOKSTORE: SOLD ALSO BY THE BOOKSELLERS IN BOSTON.

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INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS

TO MINISTERS, SAINTS OF EVERY DENOMINA

TION, PARENTS AND CHILDREN.

HISTORIANS mention the Golden age, the Silver age, the Brass age, the Iron age, besides these, we have had, the Popish age, the Episcopal age, the Presbyterian age, the Congregational age, the Baptist age, the Methodist age, and the Hopkinsian age.

There has been times, when some one of these have for a while triumphed over all the rest; either by ruling the others, or in boasting that their arguments were best supported from scripture. Among the rest, one age, improperly called, "the age of reason," has, in swift succession passed by those of the present generation, with the other ages. These ages are behind all of the present day; excepting those who have the disadvantage of having their eyes the back side of their heads, instead of having them below their foreheads.

At such a time as this, when multitudes are looking forward for something better than can

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