Excerpt from A Family Book: Containing Discourses on the Following Subjects, Being Doctrinal, Evangelical, Practical, and Historical And while We humbly contemplate this great and blef-r fed Being, may a holy dread fall upon us, and his excel-r leney make us religioufly afraid; being fenfible that on fe fublime a fubjeet we cannot order our thoughts or ex. Prefiions aright, by reafon of darknefs, and are in danger of darkening counfel by words Without knowledge. 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.