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Excerpt from Lectures on the Nature and End of the Sacred Office: And on the Dignity, Duty, Qualifications, and Character, of the Sacred Order
About fifteen years ago, the writer of the fol lowing sheets, having been appointed to preach before the Annual Meeting of the Synod of Argyll, was led, by this circumstance, to cast his eye on such books as fell in his way, relative to the Na ture and End of the Sacred Office. He was dis appointed in not finding that any treated of the subject fully and in a distinct and regular manner. He thought it might be of use to the cause of reli gion in general, and especially to young divines, to have the nature, extent and importance of those duties which the ministers of religion are called to discharge, and of that character which they are called to bear, delineated and exhibited in one connected View. With this 'i'mpression upon his mind, he laid down his plan, and filled it up with the most important thoughts which occurred to him upon the different parts of it, supported occasionally by the sentiments of others on the same subject.
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