PREFACE. 



it was natural to think, would receive a stronger 

 and more effectual impression of an imitable 

 pattern of piety, when the ideas of it were 

 conveyed in perpetual association with those of 

 the person and character of so near a relation. 

 This, therefore, it was proposed, should be 

 lodged in their hands, as a private memorial ; 

 to be preserved as an Heir Loom in the family, 

 without thoughts of making it public. 



But in the prosecution of this as yet narrow 

 design, so many things offered themselves for 

 the enlarging it, and making the pattern more 

 complete, viz. the principles by which he con- 

 ducted himself in all parts of life, the inviolable 

 integrity that regulated and reigned in all he 

 said or did, and the noble simpHcitij which 

 shone in his whole conversation and deport- 

 ment, in which respects also he seemed an 

 example as fit to be propounded to his de- 

 scendants, and with as promising an influence 

 upon them, as in his private exercise of religion 

 above mentioned, that these also, together 

 with his other social virtues, found place in 

 the scheme; and being taken in, they either 



