Some one has said, that, as often as he mingled in the company of men, Ir has been long thought desirable by the Editor, that the life of God in the soul of man, with some of the Scougal;' the Discourses of the Rev. Henry Meditations of the Hon. Charles How; and two Sermons of the great Cudworth, usually annexed to his Intellectual System, should reappear together, in a handsome volume. Conjointly, they seemed likely to do a service, for which, in their separate form, they were less perfectly adapted: presenting, as they do when taken together, a complete and harmonious scheme of practical religion. While, by the recommendation of an attractive appearance, they might, possibly, engage the attention of a class of readers, hitherto unacquainted with their very existence. Into these views, the respectable and spirited publishers cordially entered; and, it is hoped, that the present undertaking may be so far successful, as, at once, to remunerate their liberality, and to afford the public a specimen of Christian instruction, not only unexceptionable in its nature, but uniformly tending to edification of the best kind. |