"IT is a memorable passage in Eusebtus, One of the Ancients; The Greatest Philosophers among the Gentiles, tho they talk'd much about the Immortality of the Soul, and the Felicity of the Future State, yet by their Lives they made it appear, that they did not Believe their own Talk, they really look'd on it as a Trifling Report; But, Sayes he, among us Christians, the very Boyes & Girles, being assisted by the Power of our Blessed Saviour, make it apparent, not only by their Words, but also by their Lives, that they have a powerful Belief of their having Immortal Souls, and of their coming to Eternal Blessedness in the World to come. Thus we find, even the children in the Primitive Churches, commended by one of the Renowned Fathers. May the Lord so Bless thy Children in the midst of thee, O NEW ENGLAND, that boy may deserve such a Commendation!"
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.