Excerpt from Sketches of the Life of the Late, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D: Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport, Written by Himself, Interspersed With Marginal Notes, Extracted From His Private Diary, to Which Is Added, a Dialogue, by the Same Hand, on the Nature and Extent of True Christian Submission The knowledge of the lives and char aaers of fuch as have been eminent foi piety and ufefulnefs, can hardly fail Of being infiruetive and edifying. We trace, in them, the iootfieps Of divine power and providence in preparing them for fervice in the kingdom of Chrif't, and to be blellings to the world. And the examples we have, in them, of the manner and feveral fieps by which they attained, through the blefll ing of God, to eminence in knowledge and piety, are greatly fitted to.infpire candid minds with a defire to imitate them. 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.