PREACHED TO A COUNTRY CONGREGATION; TO WHICH are added, A FEW Hints for Sermons; INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE ΤΟ JOHN HILEY ADDINGTON, Esq. JOINT PAYMASTER-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES. MY DEAR SIR, Vicar's Hill, Jan. 8. 1808. IT is a pleasure to me, that these little publications afford me an opportunity of giving a testimony of my affection to some of my early friends, whose conduct in life has given me so much satisfaction. With various branches of your family I have had much intimate acquaintance, if I may not call it friendship; among whom I have seen all the duties of private life very pleasingly fulfilled. pro It has been the impudent boast of fligacy, that private vices are public benefits. I should not think the welfare of my Country ran much risk, under the influence of an opposite maxim. I dare even venture to conceive, the influence of A 2 private |