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Excerpt from A Letter to Those of His Brethren in the Ministry Who Refuse to Admit the Rev. Mr. Whitefield Into Their Pulpits
It might be look'd upon by fome as ralh and unwarrantable in Dr. Barret, and as bearing too hard upon the. {clergy of his own Church; and even upon the Seat: of Learning, publickly to fay as he does in' his Preface to his Pa/loral Care, That the much greater Part of thole that came to he ordain' d, are ignorant to a Degree um to be apprehended by thole who are not oblig'd to know. The eafieli: Part of Knowledge, fays hel, is that to tiv'vhich they are the greatel} Strangers. I mwean the plainefl Parts of Scripture, which they in Excufe of their Ignorance, that their Tutor; in the 'uh never mention the Reading ofto'them To that theyi can' 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.
