A?rD  HILKIAU  THE  HIGH  PRIEST  SAID  UNTO  SAPHA*«  THt  SCRIIIE9
I  HAVE  tOVND  THE  BOOK  OF  THE  LAW  IN  THE  HOUSE  or  THl
LORD.      2KINOSXXU.  8.
[verily].!  SAyUMTO  YOU,  I  HAVE  NOT  FOUND  SO  GREAT  PAITii,
yo,    NOT    IN    IIRi^BL.      LUKE  vii.  9.
LONDON:

PRIMTBO  BY  T.  BENSLEY,   BOLT  COURT,    FLEET  STREET.
Said  at  ?rovidence  Chapel  on  Monday  and  WtdntCAzy  Evenings,  and  at  Monk.
well-Street  Meetinjj  on  Toefday  Evenings  j  by  T.  Green,  No.  93,  and
J.  Baker,  Mo.  126,  Oxford.Screet ;  George  Calladine,  Bookfcller,  Lei.
cefter;  Benjamin  Gateward,  Watchmaker,' Hi tchin,  Herts ;  Thomas
Barftooy  Market  Place,  Grantham,  LincoinlHire  j  at  the  Chapel  in  the
Cliff,  Lewet,  SuiTex}  by  A.  Banen,  fen.  Wellwyn,  Herts  ^  and  by
J.  Jamefon,  FenrUb,  Cumberland,

1802.
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PREFACE.
T0  all  tbem  that  love  our  Lord  Jefus  Cbrijl  in  Jin-
cerity^  the  Revifer  Jendetb  greeting.
I>iar  Brethren^

.  1  WILL  not  fay  of  this  author  as  Claudius  Lyfias
faid  of  Paul^  That  he  was  taken  of  the  Jews^
and  would  have  been  killed  of  them,  if  he  had  not
come  with  an  army  and  refcued  him  i  but  this  I
will  fay,  that  he  has  left  behind  him  fo  good  a  re-
port through  faith,  that  many  in  our  days  would
have  judged  it  their  wifdom  to  have  ltd  it  in  the
ruins  qf  the  houfe^  or  confined  it  to  the  moles  and
to  the  bdts,  rather  than  revifc  a  Jteftimony  that  dif*
covers  their  foundation  even  to  the  neck.     Hab»

ill.  1 3.
The  author  of  this  narrative  was  the  (on  of  »
proteftant  biihop^  the  nephew  of  a  noble  lord,  and
was  training  up  for  the  mini^ry,  and  expeded  to

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