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8 BREAKING. 



among thofe, my memory fumifhes me with 

 inftances of two that happened in the public 

 parts of different large towns; one paffio- 

 nately inflidted by a brother of the facuhy, 

 the other by a fon of the church ; the laft 

 of which was almoft accompanied with {q 

 fingular a circumftance, that I cannot refift 

 the temptation of a fhort digreffion to recite 

 it. 



Being a man of very low ftature, and 

 engaged to preach, for an abfent friend, in 

 an exceeding large church and high pulpit, 

 not a hundred miles from one of our univer- 

 iities, he delivered his text from that part 

 of fcripture including the words, ^* L? a littU 

 time you JJoall fee me, and in a little time 

 you Jh all not;'' at this moment, the ftool 

 upon which he ftood, to render himfelf con- 

 fpicuous to the congregation, flipping from 

 under him, rendered him not only inftantly 

 invijible, but proved the words of his text 

 to have been feledled with the niofl prophetic 

 infpiration. 



Leaving to the force of imagination the 

 general conflernation of bis auditors and the 



confufion 



