Jon J. Cardwell

A Puritan Bible Primer: New American Standard Bible Jon J. Cardwell

"Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." -Ephesians 6:4

A Puritan Bible Primer is an elementary level guide

...for parents to prepare the youngest members in Christian families to read the Bible and to receive instruction from God's truth. It is designed for parents to provide their very young children Bible instruction as early as possible.

This primer includes "The Disciple's Prayer," "Books of the Bible," "A Primer Catechism," a General Confession of Faith, poems, and selected hymns and psalms.

--The Disciple's Prayer, also known as The Lord's Prayer, is a blessed model for our children to learn how to pray, as well as a model for parents to instruct the children in the various facets and graces of prayer in, by and through our crucified, risen and ascended Lord.

--Knowing the books in the Bible is an essential primer for the young children (as well as the young in Christ), because knowing where to turn in the Bible when the preacher mentions a passage of Scripture is so very important.

--"A Primer Catechism" is a simpler form of questions and answers than those found in A Puritan Family Devotional or A Pilgrim Family Devotional.  Nevertheless, the blessed truths gleaned from this catechism will plant many seeds of Biblical truth in the heart of the child, as well as prepare the child to join the family in catechism recitation, be it Mr. Spurgeon's A Puritan Catechism, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, or the Heidelberg Catechism.

--The generic General Confession of Faith contained in this little volume allow for the use of this resource by families regardless of the denomination of their Reformed and Evangelical Faith: Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Reformed, Lutheran, etc.

--Poems paraphrasing the scripture or placing doctrinal, experiential or practical truths in meter or rhyme will bring joy to your children as they learn the scriptures and its truth in metrical form.

--The seven selected hymns and seven selected psalms from the Scottish Psalter are the very same found in A Puritan Family Devotional and A Pilgrim Family Devotional.

The Primer truly serves as a basic and fundamental resource to prepare our children to read the scriptures in their own devotional times.