The Works Of Philip Doddridge D D PDF Download

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON V. Eting thejirst of a series of seven Sermons to Young Persons.) THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RISING GENERATION. DEDICATION. TO THE Young Persons belonging to the Dissenting Congregations at Hinckley, Harbornugh, mid Kibworth in Leicestershire, and at Ashley, and Northampton. My Dear Brethren And Friends AT length, after a long and unexpected delay, I offer to your perufal a. few fermons which I promt led the public Tome years ago; all which fume or other of yon heard, and in which you are all concerned. It not material to tell you, on what account I have laid by some, which I had transcribed for your service, and which you probably expected to have seen with these. I have substituted in their room such, as I thought might, by the divine blessing, be most useful to you. I hope you will perme them with candor, and the rather, considering they were prepared for the press chiefly in some broken moments, while I was on journeys, or in some fragments of time at home, often taken from my sleep, as the stated duties of my calling require my attendance, which will not allow of eny long interruption. You would readily excuse what defects you may discover in them, if you knew that tender concern for your present and future happiness, by which every sermon, and every page, has been dictated. They have often been mingled with prayers and with tears; and my heart is so full of affection to you, that it is with great difficulty, that I forbear inlerging, more than the proper limits of such an address will admit. As for you, my Leicestershire friends, amongs.t whom my ministry was opened, nd the first years of it were delightfully spent, I cannot forget, and I hope you have not forgotten, that intimate and pleasing friendship, with which we were once almost da...