kind.  They  furnish  internal  evidence  that  their
author  was  a  pious,  enlightened,  and  judicious
Divine.  But  they  all  discover,  what  has  been
more  than  once  hinted  in  the  foregoing  pages,
that  he  had  been  too  busy  in  the  great  and  prac-
tical departments  of  his  professional  duty,  to  in-
dulge himself  in  the  luxuries  of  polite  literature,
or  to  attain  the  elegancies  of  fine  writing ;  and
that  he  had  the  pious  magnanimity  to  prefer  the
former  to  the  latter.
