and Inſtructive, yet ſevere against any thing that was beyond the Liberty of Truth. Theſe, with his other Qualifications of Body and Mind, did render him both very Acceptable and very Uſeful, as a Friend, as a Neighbour, and as a Member and Elder in the Church of Chriſt; and the more, for that his Time was chiefly Imployed in being Serviceable in one or other of theſe Capacities.
I might here particularly mention the ſeveral Labours of our Deceaſed Friend, according to their reſpective Times, and the Nature of their ſeveral Subjects; but much of this being already done in the enſuing Pages, I chuſe to remit the Reader thither; by which poſſibly he may be excited to the Peruſal of them, and ſhall only ſay concerning them, that the judicious Reader will eaſily Obſerve, that his Method and Stile do denote him to have been a Scholar: And yet not farther ſo, than the Simplicity and Purity of the Truth, whereof he made Profeſſion, would permit him.
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