Excerpt from A Letter to a Friend: Containing, Remarks on Certain Passages in a Sermon Had the character you mention, as given the Britilh Colonies, been contained in a difcourfe delivered by a common Clergy-man, before a common audience, it would, I believe, have given you no uneafinefs as you would not have been apprehenfive of any harm from it But, as it is exhibited in a fermon, preached before the incor porated Society for the propagation of the Gofpel in foreign parts, many of whom are high tn rank, and fuf'tain the greateit character, no wonder your concern was moved; efpecially, as this refpe table body of men have Virtually made themfelves patrons of the fer'mon. So we are authorifed to think from their voting the preacher thanks for it, and defiring him to deliver to them a copy of 1t for the prefs; unlefs it may be (aid, this was'only a matter ofform and ceremony to {upp'ofe which would reflect difhonor on its dignified author. We, in this part of the world, mull: be ihamefully '1mp1ous and immoral, to deferve what is here (aid of us; or, if we do not, very unhappy to be publicltly placed in ii) injurious a point of light. Whether we are the one, or the other, I {hall now examine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.