Excerpt from A View of the Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion, in Fortynine Discourses on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: With a Preliminary Discourse on the Evidences of the Gospel, Especially Those Derived From Conversion, Ministry and Writings of That Apostle The author of_ the following work has made it a frequent pra lic'e, in the comic of his minifiry, to felee}, for'the fubjeft of his public difcourfes, a large portion of fcripture, a number of chapters in a book, a whole book, or Epifile, going through it, paragraph by paragraph, in order. From this method of preaching he has contemplated thele two advantages -the p1eacher will thus be led to treat on fome fubjeets, which, in the ordinary way of fele lion, might be overlooked; and he will exhibit the conneeled train of reafoning which runs through the book, and thus will lead his hearers to obferve. The connexion and argumentation of fcripture in their pri vate reading. 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.