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THE CONCLUSION.
WE have hitherto examin'd the Age and Advantages of Cate∣chising, and found it to stand above the imputation of being either Novel or Superfluous. So that the only remaining Enquiry concerns its Practice. And this will exact no long disquisition, seeing every Station of men are therein so perfunctory and negligent. Now, as in a common Contagion, no less care must be had of the sound than infirm; and the cure of single persons is required to the removal of the Epidemical Disease: So remissness in Catechising being be∣come a common Malady, it behoves e∣very one to look after amendment, to the end that the Church may be healed of all those Distempers faln upon her through lack of Catechising, and which, if not prevented with a timely interposi∣tion