A

HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPOSITION

OF THE

Catechism of the Church of England,

DESIGNED CHIEFLY

FOR THE USE OF CANDIDATES FOR CONFIRMATION,

AND OF

STUDENTS IN DIOCESAN TRAINING-SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS HALTON, M.A.

CURATE OF LIVERPOOL, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF LONSDALE.

Train up (or catechise) a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Prov. xxii, 6.

LONDON:
JAMES BURNS, 17 PORTMAN STREET;

EDWARDS AND HUGHES, AVE MARIA LANE. LIVERPOOL: WAREING WEBB, AND WILLIAM GRAPEL.

1843.

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM, EARL OF LONSDALE,

KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER,

THE FOLLOWING LITTLE WORK IS,

BY PERMISSION, INSCRIBED,

IN

TOKEN OF GRATITUDE AND RESPECT.