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 work was composed; and when it is considered, how far notwithstanding he has outstripped all that went before him in that study, namely, of the Hebrew accentuation; he understood the French, and, for the sake of comparing translations, could read the Dutch Bible. There were few pieces of learning that he had not some good taste of: But all his knowledge behoved to be otherways discovered than by his professing of it: he was a hard student, of indefatigable application; so that, whatever he was once heartily engaged in, he knew not to quit, till, by help from heaven, and incessant labour, he got through it. Had a great knowledge and understanding of human nature, of the most proper methods of addressing it, and the most likely handles for catching hold of it.

As a minister he had on his spirit a deep and high sense of divine things; was mighty in the scriptures, in his acquaintance with the letter, with the spirit and sense of them, in happily applying and accommodating them for explaining and illustrating the subject. His knowledge and insight into the mystery of Christ was great, tho' a