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of inclinations and studies, usually make (as is 

 thought) the truest and most delightful friend- 

 ships ; then these two persons needed only to 

 be known to each other, to create a mutual 

 endearment : but so it happened with them, that 

 their friendship was more firmly cemented, and 

 their correspondence rendered more intimate, 

 by being engaged in the same labours, the same 

 controversies. In carrying on of which, they 

 seemed animated with the same zeal, affected 

 with the same piety, and influenced by the 

 same modesty. They recommended and pub- 

 lished each others writings, not only with more 

 confidence, but with more pleasure than 

 they did their own. Nor did Doctor Sharp 

 ever do any thing for his friend that seemed to 

 give himself trouble, but the preaching at his 

 funeral *. 



Such friendships as these being rare, and a 

 real credit to the parties engaged in them, it 



* How valuable a man this was, and how much Dr. Sharp 

 esteemed and loved him, will best appear from a passage or 

 two of the Funeral Sermon above-mentioned, and from the 

 Preface which Doctor Sharp wrote to the first volume of his 

 friend's Sermons, which were soon published, as well for the 

 honour and credit of the departed Author, as for the public 

 benefit. 



Both these will be found in the Appendix. App. 1. No. I. 

 and No. II. 



