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Rh departing hours. To Him, therefore, and to Him alone, whose influence I implore, I commit these Memoirs, such as they are, in the hope that He will vouchsafe his blessing on a work which originated in an ardent desire to promote his glory; and that he will render it an instrument to extend the knowledge and experience of the glorious Gospel of God our Saviour."

With these glowing words of the pious Author, the Conductors commit his Work to the candid judgment of the enlightened reader: remarking merely, as they are in justice bound to do, that the Religious Institution now known as "The Connexion of the late Countess of Huntingdon" does not incur the slightest responsibility with regard to this Work: and that the Reverend Author of the Introduction to the present Volume has undertaken to resume his pen for a similar introductory paper to the second volume of these Memoirs.