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Excerpt from A Sermon Preach'd to the Societies for Reformation of Manners, at Salters-Hall, on Monday June 26, 1721
HE Book of 705 is intended to refcnt Us with a moi't Example bf fincere Piet Profperity, and eminen under great Adverfity The Piety of 705 Was fo well tried that God himfelf p1onounces him a perfeél' and Chap. I 8. An aprigbt Man, and his Patience be ing largely p1ov 'd by a fu1'prizing Variety of uncommon Calamities, ' is declared great and exemplary, by an infpire'd Jam.v.11. Apof'tle. The great and fudden. Change which befel this eminent Perfon, was no doubt matte1 of general Obfervation, and foon reach'd his Friends 111' pa1t1cular, Who bc-x ing Perfons of Difiiné'tion thought themfelves bound by the Laws of Religion and Civility forthwith to Vifit him: The fir? fight they had of 7ob firuck them mto the Poi'ture of M0111 ners, ' A 2. They(4)
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