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claration, is certainly a daily repetition of it; and to repeat officially what one does not believe, is a moft grofs prevarication, unworthy of a minifter of the new Testament, a chriftian, a gentleman, a man."

This extract reflects fo much honour on my excellent friend, and is fuch an unequivocal teftimony of the liberality of his mind, that I could not omit it in justice to his memory at the fame time I have forborne to lengthen it, only because of expreffions of perfonal affection for myself, which it would not become me to repeat.

D.

SAMUEL

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HE MARRIED (AUGUST I, MDCCLXVII) ANN, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE REV. CHRISTOPHER WILSON, D.D. FORMERLY ALSO VICAR OF THIS PARISH, NOW LORD BISHOP OF BRISTOL. SHE DIED MAY VIII, MDCCLXXXV, AGED XXXIX YEARS, AND WAS BURIED AT FULHAM IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

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DISCOURSE I.*

GALATIANS VI. 9.

LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL-DOING

FOR,

IN DUE SEASON, WE SHALL REAP, IF WE

FAINT NOT.

IT hath been objected by the enemies of our religion, that the rewards and punishments of the gospel are beneath the liberal nature of the human mind; and that it propofeth nothing for the encouragement of a chriftian, but what at the fame time depreffeth the dignity of a man. I would not, upon this occafion, spend much of our time in controversy, yet cannot help ftopping to observe, that the apostle in our text understood nature, as well as chriftianity, much better than any of these philo fophers.

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* Preached at the old-church in Leeds, Jan: 4, 1767, at a collection for the blue-coat charity-school.

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