The New Whole Duty of Man: Containing the Faith as Well as Practice of a Christian, Made Easy for the Practice of the Present Age (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

Excerpt from The New Whole Duty of Man: Containing the Faith as Well as Practice of a Christian, Made Easy for the Practice of the Present Age

The following reasons, I hope, will justify me to a candid and considerate reader, for publishing this Whole Duty of Man; and, I trust, they are also sufficient to remove and prevent any prejudices, that at first appearance may possibly be entertained or suggested against it.

It being now near one hundred years since the publication of the Old Whole Duty of Man, it need not be matter of surprise to any, if the generality of readers begin to be but a little affected by that work.

The cause of which dislike is to be ascribed in a great measure, I presume, to the distance of those times in which that treatise was wrote; for not only the words, but the manner of expression, and the ways and methods of treating; such subjects are, and ought to be, very different now from what they were formerly. And though I am far from denying that a vein of found learning and morality is visible throughout that book, or that it was well adapted for those unhappy times of strife and confusion in which it was written; yet all this lying under the forementioned disadvantages, it is apprehended the people of the present age are never like to be better reconciled to it. "For the cafe in reality was this: during the times of confusion, many of the preachers (and writers) had not only forborne to inculcate the duties of morality, but had laboured to depreciate them; to persuade the people that faith was all, and works nothing. And therefore, in order to take off those unhappy impressions, the Clergy found themselves obliged to inculcate, with more than ordinary diligence, the necessity of moral duties in the christian life, and to labour to restore them to their proper share in the christian scheme."

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