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Excerpt from Pious Meditations: Designed to Excite Mankind to Make Such an Improvement of Time, as Will Tend to Prepare Them for a Blessed Immortality; Partly Original and Partly Selected
Born in my own additions, and in the selec' tions which I have given, 1 have endeavoured to exhibit the Gospel according to the pattern which its Divine Author has given us; to exhi bit its doctrines, its precepts, and its-sanctions; to inculcate both knowledge and practice, both faith and holiness to rouse and persuade by the terrors of the Lord to allure and comfort by his preciousfun'changeable promises. As to the manner or style, Ehave to the utmost of my power, in What IS my own in these excici ses, imitated and adapted the Simplicity of the Gospel. Those, therefore, who expect studied, elegant language willbe disappointed. But, in this respect they will be gratified, and obtain some compensation in the selections which I have given from the elegant pen ofa Sadrin, a Home, a 'vatts, a Coney, a Hunter, a Logan, 8. Charters, 11 Brown, 8m. 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.
