XX Vm ADVERTISEMENT. 



the Lord Stowell, and Prince Hoare, Esq. tlie 

 aythor of the Life of Granville Sharp. 



Such were his motives for publishing the work 

 at this time ; and such the Editor oifers as his 

 excuse ^Iso for keeping in his own hands the, 

 risk and responsibility of the editorial office, 

 from which another and abler editor might have 

 fairly proposed and acquired to himself some 

 personal reputation. To this he makes no pre- 

 tension, having, in truth, been so interrupted in 

 the course of his voluntary task, by several 

 events of no ordinary occurrence in the life of a 

 country clergyman and magistrate, and by cares 

 of too ordinary occurrence in the bosom of most 

 large families, as to have had neither time to 

 add much of note or comment in order to 

 illustrate his author, nor yet inclination to at-; 

 tempt to illustrate himself. But in defect of 

 these less valuable additions, in the third Ap-. 

 pendix, the reader will find letters of the late 

 Granville Sharp and other eminent personsj 

 elucidatory of the attempt to introduce the 

 English Liturgy into the kingdom of Prussia; 

 which object, this publication may tend to, len 



