OF THE LIFE AND RELIGIOUS LABOURS OF SARAH GRUBB. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCHOOLS AT ACKWORTH OBSERVATIONS ON CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINE, AND EXTRACTS FROM MANY OF HER LETTERS. "Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost."-JOHN vi. 12. Third Edition, BEING A REPRINT OF THE DUBLIN EDITION OF 1792. INTRODUCTION. As few lives have exhibited a more pure example of piety and virtue, than that which is set forth in the ensuing pages, it has been thought right to bring it forward to general notice, under a hope, that an account of this humble, self-denying, and dedicated servant, will prove the means of instructing others; and of strengthening their faith in the efficacy of that Divine Principle, "which wrought all her works in her.” It will be proper to inform the reader, that the materials from which this work is composed, consist of journals, written by herself, of her travels through Scotland, Ireland, and some of the western counties in England, and of a considerable number of letters to some of her intimate friends. From these last have been extracted such parts, as were descriptive of her other labours and travels, or likely to be of public use. A connexion of the different events and circumstances, has been made throughout, by short narratives or explanations; but great care has been taken to preserve, as much as could be, her own words and arrangements. Those extracts of letters which do not appear to have a peculiar connexion with the narrative, and which could not have been regularly introduced there, have been collected together, and are, nearly in the order of time, inserted in the a |