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162 Excellent in all the Perfections of good Writing. Goodness, Fervour, Strength, and a true Spirit of Piety run thro' his various Compositions in a plain, unaffected Majesty of Style.

With the Bishop of Exeter and the good Arch-Bishop, I must join the late learned and venerable Bishop of S. Asaph, Dr. Beveridge; who hath delivered himself with those Ornaments alone, which his Subject suggested to him, and hath written in that Plainness and Solemnity of Style, that Gravity and Simplicity, which give Authority to the Sacred Truths he delivereth, and Rh