Our Saviour's Divine Sermon on the Mount, Contain'd in the Vth, Vith, and Viith Chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, Explained: And the Practice of It Recommended in Divers Sermons and Discourses; In Four Volumes (Classic Reprint)

Our Saviour's Divine Sermon on the Mount, Contain'd in the Vth, Vith, and Viith Chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, Explained: And the Practice of It Recommended in Divers Sermons and Discourses; In Four Volumes (Classic Reprint)

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Works, which appear to be a fair and full Portraiture of his Mind. As to the ref't, all that I can at prefent learn, will lie within a very fmall Compafs. He was born and bred in Scotland; and was or dained and beneficed in the epifcopa1 Church there: But meeting with fome Difcouragements, under an unfettled State jae-airs, and having a Profpee'c of dif charging his mlnif'terial Funetion more ufefully elfewhere, he quitted his'prefer ments there, and came over into England, fome time in the latter End'of. King Charles the Second's Reign. It was not long before he was taken notice of by the then Bifhop of London (dr. Compton who prevailed with him to go as Mifionary into Virginia: where by his regular Converfation, ex emplary Conduct, and unwearied La bours in the Work of the Minifiry, he did good Service to Religion, and gain'd to himfelf a good Report amongfi all: So that the fame Bifhop Compton, being well apprized of his true and great Worth, made choice of him, about theyear 1 689, as his Commiﬂ'ary for Virginia; a.very.

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