Synopsis
A Practical Dictionary, Containing Schemes Of The Most Necessary Subjects, Divine, Moral, And Literary by William Sleigh is a compact, alphabetically arranged reference that collects concise schemes and explanations of essential Christian doctrines, moral duties, and religious practices. The entries cover topics from 'ACCEPTANCE' and 'ADOPTION' to 'CONSCIENCE', 'CONVERSION', 'GRACE', and 'WORSHIP', often including definitional glosses, scriptural citations, and practical remarks intended to guide daily living and piety. The Preface explains Sleigh's aim to provide accessible instruction to readers lacking broad libraries, promoting useful religious knowledge with candour and sincerity. This text combines devotional instruction with doctrinal clarification and pastoral counsel, reflecting late-18th to early-19th-century Protestant emphases on practical religion. The edition reproduces Sleigh's dictionary as a historical reference work, preserving its archaic spellings and sense of religious instruction for modern readers. The work's tone is emphatic, sometimes doctrinally dense, yet readable to lay readers, using examples, cross-references, and occasional commentary to illustrate each concept.
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