Excerpt from Sermons and Tracts, Separately Published at Boston, Philadelphia, &C With a natural turn for controverfy, he had a happy government of his paflions, and abhorred the perverfe difputings fo common to men of corrupt minds: Nor did he, as is too cul'tomary with thofe of an argumen tative genius, fuffer the eagernefs of contention to ex tinguifh the fervours of devotion, or of brotherly-love. - In his example he was truly a credit to his profef fion by good works adorning the doctrine of grace, he was fo zealous an advocate fora - Hehad generous fen timents with regard to freedom of1nqu1ry and private judgment in matters of confcience and falvation, detef ting all perfecution andimpofitions in religion, and not approvm g fubfcription to human tells of orthodoxy. Yet neverthelefs, as one fet for the defence of the gofpel, ' he boldly confronted what 'he took to be error, and knew not how to fit an idle fpeetator', when he appre hended an afiault made on the cbrg/zian faith. He could not bear the thoughts of being found either a traitor to'the caufe of Chrifi, or a coward in it. When-1 ever he faw it openly invaded, or fecretly undermined, he fiood ready to appear in its defence, withoutcom fultmg his cafe or his credit. As bigotry and party rage, malevolence, calumny and cenfure, too frequent; ly mingling with religious difputes, were his abhor ience, fo he was an enemy to t'emp'orifing diflim'ula 11cm, blind charity, politic filence, and that falfe mo deration'which facnfices divine revelations to human friendfhips, and, under colour of peace and candour, gives up important points of gofpel-dofirine to every oppofer, but fiill is confident vuth difcovering a ma hgnity' towards others that appear warm defenders a'nd confiant ailerters of thofe evt ngelical truths. 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.