Excerpt from Divine Meditations and Contemplations, in Prose and Verse, on Some of the Most Important and Interesting Doctrines of Christianity: In Five Parts Not only the excellency of the fubjee'ts, but the agreeiible manner in which they are handled, will, no doubt, make them acceptable to the reader. They are not wrote in a loofe and over ly manner, nor an incoherent narration of matters; they are wrote by-way offiriour Meditation and divine Soliloquy. As they are up on the moll efl'entifl points of Chriflzianity (0 they are wrote in the'mofl devout flrain, handled in a regular and methodical - man ner, and with confiderable perfpicuity and all along the fubjeel brought home eloi'e to his own foul. As the author had a clear head for, and a great delight in religious topics Degreesfo the-fituation of life he was in for a long time, being mailer of a trading vefl'el, gave him opportunity for venting the fentiments of his great mind, he having employed any leifure time he had, when at fea, or lying in harbour, to write many of them; and thefe meditations, now emit ted to the public, exhibit an excellent fpecimen of him. They were primarily intended to divert him from roving upon vanity, and to form in his own mind jull notions of the' fupreme Being, true fentiments of himfelf, a becoming regard for divine things, and n jufl relilh for that refigz'on wbicb a'r pure and undcfi/sd. And, ln deed, they feem well calculated to excite the heart to the praelice of true religion and fin'cero piety, efpecially that which is monie cret and retired; and appearwell adapted to warm and enliven the ali'eelions in the exercife of ferions and fervent devotion. 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.