the 16th of February 1704-5. He was educated at St John's college, Cambridge; where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after his return to Newcastle, he went into Orders and in the year 1737, he was appointed Senior Clergyman of the Episcopal Chapel at Edinburgh; where he spent the remainder of his days. And though most severely and frequently afflicted with the gout, the paroxyfms of which he bore with wonderful patience and refignation, he continued to officiate to the very close of his life. For on the morning of Sunday the 18th August 1776, he was preparing, as ufual, to discharge his duty in the pulpit; when, without any unusual appearances of disease, or any alarm

ing symptom of his approaching diffolution, he fuddenly expired.

It is but juftice to his memory to mention, that the following Difcourfes do not appear to have been prepared by the Author for the prefs; they were felected by the Editor out of a great many, as of most general utility, and of course most worthy the notice of the Public. It is hoped, they are of fufficient merit to bear ample teftimony to his learning, taste, and eloquence, as a Preacher. His virtues as a Man and a Christian, are briefly, but faithfully, summed up in the following monumental infcription.

The REMAINS

of

THE REVEREND GEORGE CARR,
Senior Clergyman of this Chapel ;
In whom

Meeknefs and Moderation,
Unaffected Piety,
and

Univerfal Benevolence,

Were equally and eminently confpicuous.

After having faithfully discharged the Duties of

His facred function

During thirty-nine Years,
He died

On the 18th August 1776,
In the 71st Year of his Age,
Beloved, Honoured, Lamented!

His Congregation,

Deeply sensible of the Loss they have sustained
By the Death of this excellent Perfon,
By whofe mild yet pathetic Eloquence,
By whofe exemplary yet engaging Manners,
They have been fo long inftructed in the Duties
and

Animated to the Practice

of

Pure Religion,

Have erected this Monument,

To record

The Virtues of the Dead

and

Gratitude of the Living,

ΤΟ

THE CONGREGATION

OF THE ENGLISH EPISCOPAL CHAPEL

AT EDINBURGH,

FOR WHOSE INSTRUCTION

THESE DISCOURSES WERE COMPOSED,

BEFORE WHOM THEY WERE DELIVERED,

AND

AT WHOSE REQUEST

THEY ARE NOW SENT INTO THE WORLD; THESE VOLUMES,

IN GRATEFUL REMEMRANCE OF

THE ESTEEM, AFFECTION, AND RESPECT, INVARIABLY SHOWN BY THEM

TO THE AUTHOR WHILE ALIVE,

ARE MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED

BY

HIS DISCONSOLATE WIDOW.