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the Apostle: "Those things which you have 

 learned, and received, and heard of me, do ; and 

 the God of Peace shall be with you." 



And if he could thus answer and engage for 

 the truth and soundness of his doctrines, there 

 are enough, even as many as heard him, or have 

 read his discourses, who, though less capable of 

 answering for the matter of them, will yet give 

 testimony to his good manner of preaching. 

 His great excellency lay in representing the 

 truths of religion, with such plainness and un- 

 affected simplicity, as was, at the same time, 

 very persuasive and affecting. Even when he 

 undertook to treat the more nice and uncommon 

 subjects, his management of them was admirably 

 well adapted to common apprehension. The 

 arguments he used were always pertinent and 

 clear, and the stile in which he delivered those 

 arguments easy and familiar, as well as just and 

 correct *. So that few writers will be found to 

 equal, and none to surpass him, in perspicuity 

 and propriety of expression. 



He studied, as much as any man, to move and 

 warm the passions, and he did it in so happy a 

 way, that is, with so little appearance of design, 



* Vide Dr. Felton's Character of Archbishop Sharp's Ser- 

 mons, in his Dissertation upon reading the Classics: wherein 

 he proposes them as a model for the forming a just stile. 



