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derive as much edification from them, as from works of greater fame for novelty and invention: if indeed these terms are in any degree applicable to a subject in which there is so little scope for either. It is enough to disarm criticism in the most fastidious, to be informed that the author himself had no thought of his discourses ever appearing in print. But if more than one good end be answered by it, and the character of the deceased not committed for distinguished literary qualities to which he never aspired, no blame can surely be attached to the parties concerned in the present publication.

The subjects of the following discourses are interesting and important; and treated more with a view to practical improvement, than idle speculation. There is one on each of the principal Festivals, accompanied with appropriate exhortations to a due observation of them. The doctrine of Justification, and that of the Intermediate State, are discussed in a modest and temperate manner; and the opinions of the author appear to be in perfect harmony with those of the most eminent and judicious Divines of our Church.

We trust in short, that this unpretending Volume will be acceptable to all such persons as are more inclined to serious and devotional reading, than to the mere indulgence of curiosity; that it will be no discreditable appendage to the library of private families; no unwelcome companion to their Sunday evening associations: and as we are persuaded that it contains nothing unsound in doctrine, so it will be found that the arguments in support of a moral, and christian course of life, are enforced with the utmost sincerity, zeal, and affection.

J. P.

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