Published more particularly at their Desire, and dedicated to them,

By JONATHAN MATHEW, D.D.
Miss July 6766-16 year of bej age oshi

To the YOUNG Men who usually attend his

Ministry ; and, more particularly,
To those of them, at whose REQUEST the fol-

lowing Discourses are published.

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My dear young Brethren,
Have now before me a paper directed
to me, signed by a considerable num-

ber of you; in which you express both a full perswasion, and a graceful sense of my friendly design in preaching the followlowing sermons : At the same time desiring a copy for the press, in terms at once too respectful to me to be here repeated, and too plainly indicating a serious curn of mind, to permit me to deny your request.

I should, indeed, do an injury to myself, if I denied that my aim in them was, as you suppose," the bettering your minds and morals.” And the manner in which you actended to them, when preached, together with your being so well fatisfied with them as to desire to read them in print, affords ground to hope that, by the blessing of God, che fountain of truth, light and wisdom, A 2

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