The fear of God begins with the Heart, and purifies and rectifies it: and IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY MUNROE AND FRANCIS, SHAKSPEARE BOOKSTORE, NO. 4, CORNHILL. 1811. 4-13-33 SUB Gift Teppan Prest, Assic 1-11-1933 PREFACE. AN eminent Professor of our own time modestly declared that he taught chemistry in order that he might learn it. The writer of the following pages might, with far more justice, offer a similar declaration, as an apology for so repeatedly treating on the important topics of religion and morals. Abashed by the equitable precept, Let those teach others who themselves excel she is aware, how fairly she is putting it in the power of [the reader, to ask, in the searching words of an eminent old Prelate, “They that speak thus, and advise thus, do they do thus ?" She can defend herself in no other way, than by adopting for a reply the words of the same venerable divine, which immediately follow."O that it were not too true. Yet although it be but little that is attained, the very aim is right, and something there is that is done by it. It is better to have such thoughts and desires, than altogether to give them up; and the very desire, if it be serious |