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PREACHED TO A

COUNTRY CONGREGATION;

TO WHICH are added, a few

Hints for Sermons;

INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE
YOUNGER CLERGY.

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TO

SIR JOHN MITFORD,

His Majesty's Solicitor-General.

DEAR SIR,

YOUR old friend being afraid he shall never again be able to speak from his pulpit, like other considerate divines, is unwilling to have his labours lost to the Public, and therefore prints a volume of his Sermons.

It hath been remarked, that respectable Laymen, who have turned their thoughts to religion, have been of greater service to it, than Ecclesiastics. Such men were Sir ISAAC

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ISAAC NEWTON-Mr. LOCKEMr. ADDISON, and some very eminent lawyers-Sir MATTHEW HALE in particular and I am proud to mention the late excellent Sir JoSEPH YATES; whose friends knew him to be as pious, and informed a christian, as the Public acknowledged him to be an able and upright Judge.

In this view, a Solicitor-General may stand as properly at the head · of a volume of Sermons, as Bishop-if he be such a SolicitorGeneral, as I have every reason to believe I address-with whose character I have had the happiness of being acquainted through a period of more than thirty years. I wish,

I wish, my dear Sir, the gift were more worthy of your acceptance.— But I am persuaded you have candour enough to rate the value of it, by the motive which accompanies it. Whatever you think of the book, you will receive it as a testimony of the very sincere esteem and respect, with which I am, dear Sir,

YOUR VERY AFFECTIONATE,

VICAR'S HILL,
May 10, 1799.

AND OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

WILL. GILPIN.

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