I HAVE no wish to warm your minds with a tranfient glow of piety and goodness; but I have an earnest wish to perfuade you, by the terrors of the Lord, to look into yourfelves; to examine your moral condition; to confider the precipice on which you are standing, and by works of mercy to provide against your falling into everlasting perdition. Everlasting life and everlasting death are fet before us all, it is not the faying Lord, Lord, that will fave any of us; but it is the doing the things which the Lord hath commanded: Go on then, my Brethren, in supporting and bringing to perfection, the good works which your ancestors have begun; look forward to the end of your calling; take especial heed, that you be not fo entangled with the cares; fo bewitched with the pleasures; fo bloated by the vanities of this life; as to neglect the only circumftance which is of real value in it-the opportunity it affords you of preparing for another. A A DISCOURSE, &c. REVEREND BRETHREN, HA AVING never been poffeffed of any Ecclefiaftical Preferment, by which it became neceffary for me to attend either an Epifcopal, or Archidiaconal Vifitation, it is very probable that I may be guilty of several informalities and mistakes in conducting the business of this day. I can have no hesitation, however, in asking, and no doubt indeed of obtaining from your candour, an excuse for every thing of that fort. BEING willing to tread in the steps of my Predeceffors; and understanding, that it has been customary for them to address the Clergy at their primary visitation, I shall also venture to trouble you with a few Ob |