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commendations, every reader will judge for himself. But it can give no occafion of offence, to inform thofe who knew not the author, that through the course of his life he difcovered the fame ferioufness, which in his fermons he recommended to others that he delighted in fhewing a profound respect to his creator and governor; and could not forbear expreffing his diflike to any thing that favour'd of irreligion, from what quarter foever it came: that in matters relating to the Chriftian religion, be adhered strictly to what he believed to be the mind of Chrift the Lawgiver, retaining at the fame time generous fentiments with regard to those who differed from him that tho he was not forward in converfation, but rather too fearful of Speaking

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his mind; yet he had a very great. fluency, joined to an uncommon Strength and juftness of expreffion, when he addrefs'd his maker, whether in public or in the family; to which laft fervice he was called. very early, upon an extraordinary occafion, which once in the year brought the whole family together: and that both in prayer and in preaching, his manner was exceed ingly graceful, and fitted to command attention.

He compofed no more fermons than these few which are here published. It was with difficulty that he was prevailed on to deliver them when prepared: and fo diffident was he of himself, that he never could be brought to a ftated course of preaching. But notwithstanding this backwardness, he gave a prospect of much

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ufeful fervice, when it pleafed God to remove him, in the twenty eighth year of his age, May the 16th, MDCCxxviii. It is in the hope that thefe his remains may do fome good, that they are offered to public view, by his furviving brothers,

July 3. MDCCXXXIII.

Jofeph Burroughs,
Benjamin Burroughs.

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