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 humbling sense of his want was like to have quite sunk and laid him by after he began to preach. He had a particular talent of going deep into the mysteries of the gospel, and at the same time making them plain, making intelligible their connection with and influence upon gospel-holiness: Notable instances of which may be seen in his most valuable tratise of the Covenant, and in his sermons of Christ in the form of a servant. His intention was rich, but judiciously bounded; his thoughts were always just, and often new; his expressions proper and pure; his illustrations and similies often surprising; his method natural and clear; his delivery grave and graceful, with an air of earnestness, meekness, assurance and authority tempered together. No wonder his ministration in holy things were all of them dear and precious to the saints. He was fixed and established upon solid and rational grounds in the reformation principles, in opposition to popery, prelacy, superstition, and persecution. Was pleasant and lively in conversation, but always with a decorum to his character: Quite free of that sowrness of temper, or