Excerpt from The Pilgrimage of Theophilus to the City of God Not long since, I fell into company with several serious friends, and our conversation turned upon the importance of early piety. We reflected, particularly, upon the daily increasing impediments to repentance, which delay and bad habits produce. And as we had, each of us, dear children of our own, whom we anxiously desired to train up from their earliest youth in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; we resolved to endeavour to write something instructive and engaging for the benefit of our several families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.