LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 156 



he had no design upon earth, but that both they 

 and himself might be good, and adorn the pro- 

 fession to which they were called; and dis- 

 charge the trusts committed to them, to the 

 honour of their Master, the good of his Church, 

 and the peace and comfort of their own minds." 



With these and the like paternal monitions, 

 savouring of primitive zeal and simplicity, and 

 delivered with an air of seriousness and gravity 

 which was solemn and aifecting, and in some 

 respects peculiar to himself, he addressed his 

 Clergy as often as he held his ordinary Visita- 

 tions. 



And it was at these seasons that he took his 

 opportunities of pyivately discoursing with such 

 of them against whom he had heard any com- 

 plaints, or whom he had any reason to suspect 

 in the least deficient in discharging the duties 

 of their cures. 



. In what manner he executed this usually 

 ungrateful, yet necessary branch of his office, 

 they best knew who received the benefit of his 

 monitions in pjivate. In how frank and inge- 

 nuous, in how tender and inoffensive a manner 

 he treated them on these occasions, may in 

 some measure be learnt from a specimen or two 

 of his way of admonishing by letter, when he 

 could not do it face to face. 



The following letters were sent upon his re- 



