PRINTED BY BARFIELD, WARDOUR-STREET, AND SOLD BY GARDINER, Princes-Street, Cavendish-Square; MURRAY, Princes-Street, 1803. DEDICATION. TO THE CHURCH OF CHRISTIN KEPPEL-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE. MY DEAR FRIENDS, IN the year 1790, to you, I dedicated the translation of an Essay on Providence, and to you, I dedicate the present improved edition of that Essay. At the period just mentioned, seventeen years, I had been your minister; and now, remember, for thirty years, have I, statedly, been thus employed: so long have you had patience with me; so long, you say, the church has been thankful for my ministrations. ministrations. Some of you may suppose, that now you have had the best of my labors: you have in quantity; but in quality, I hope you have not. True, I am advanced in years; but of some, God has said, They shall bring forth fruit in old ages and that felicity I |