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SERMONS

PREACHED TO A

COUNTRY CONGREGATION:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A FEW

Hints for Sermons ;

INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE
YOUNGER CLERGY.

BY WILLIAM GILPIN, M. A.

PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY, AND VICAR OF BOLDRE,
IN NEW FOREST.

PRINTED FOR T, CADELL, AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND,

1804.

GODLEIAN

6 OCT 1964

LIBRARY

Printed by Strahan and Preston, New-Street Square, London.

то

Sir John Mitford,

His Majefty's Solicitor-General.

DEAR SIR,

YOUR old friend

being afraid he shall never again be able to speak from his pulpit, like other considerate divines, is, unwilling to have his labours lost to the Public, and therefore prints a volume of his sermons.

It hath been remarked, that respectable Laymen, who have turned their thoughts to religion, have been of greater service to it, than Ecclesiastics. Such men were Sir.