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FROM

PIOUS AUTHORS:

COMPRISING

The Wheatsheaf, Fruits and Flowers,
Carden, and Shrubberq.

WITH A BRIEF NOTICE

OF

THE FORMER PUBLICATIONS OF THESE VOLUMES,

BY

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

A New Edition.

Philadelphia:

HENRY LONGSTRETH.

NO. 347 MARKET ST.

1855.

ANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRATY CAMBRIDO, MASS.

A71.682

TO THE PUBLISHER OF

"Gleanings from Pions Authors,”

AFTER READING THE FOUR VOLUMES OF

WHICH THE WORK IS COMPOSED.

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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men," was the song of the angels at the birth of our Saviour. To promote these blessed objects appears to have been the simple and sincere purpose of the Editor of this volume; in the compilation of which so much of delicate taste and sound judgment has been exercised, that it may perhaps be said, (and as the writer of this paragraph himself believes,) that on no page of its diversified and delightful contents can the eye of a candid inquirer even casually alight, without finding something worthy to be read, and remembered too.

THE MOUNT, NEAR SHEFFIELD,

November 22d, 1845.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Preface.

The small volumes now blended, were severally compiled in succession, and extended beyond the original purpose, in consequence of the reception they met with from the public. But for this, a more systematic arrangement might have been observed, especially as regards the affixing of some of the authors' names; an attempt for the most part early abandoned, from the great difficulty of discovering many of them.

If the thus gathering together of the results of much Christian experience be rendered useful to the community, it will be cause of gladness. "How much precious truth," says a recent writer, "has been written, and published, by holy saints, and servants of God, which the world, that neither knoweth or careth for truth, has consigned to oblivion and contempt; but which, at the lapse of even hundreds of years from its first publication, is in some unexpected way, made to pierce and melt the heart of some poor wanderer from the true fold, and be the means of guiding it to the arms of the good Shepherd of Israel!"

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