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PREACHED TO A

COUNTRY CONGREGATION;

TO WHICH are added, A FEW

Hints for Sermons;

INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE
YOUNGER CLERGY.

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LIOTHEQUE CANTONAL
ANNE

LONDON.

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.

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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.

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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

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