Excerpt from The Works of Samuel Hopkins, D. D, Vol. 1 of 3: First Pastor of the Church in Great Barrington, Mass;, Afterwards Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport, R. I., With a Memoir of His Life and Character In publishing his Journal, Letters, and other manuscripts, no attempt he. Been made to correct their faulty style; but they are printed, in the main, as they were originally written. In some few instances, where his words were illegible, or very obscure, the biographer has inserted, within brackets, the terms or phrases which seemed to express the idea intended in the origi nal manuscript. 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.