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greater than have yet been experienced may he dreaded, from the REJECTION OF THE MESSIAH, there is every reason to think, on the fuppofition that Christianity is true.

In this book I have endeavoured to maintain a sense of the real dignity and importance of the moft folemn act of worship, and the most facred rite of our religion. I have been particularly careful to confirm my opinions on the authority of Scripture, and the fanction of the pious and learned defenders of the faith, from the earliest ages to the times in which we live. I have certainly given long and great attention to the fubject; and am not without hope that I fhall afford fome information to thofe who, from want of leifure, or opportunity, or inclination, have hitherto little confidered or underftood the nature and efficacy of the Eucharift. If I fhould be fo fuccefsful, I fhall be rewarded with the fatisfaction of knowing that I fhall have contributed to the permanent happi

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happiness of my fellow creatures and the real welfare of my country.

That many perfons who pretend to a fuperior fhare of the rational faculty, and of, what they call, LIBERALITY, will be difpleafed with, or difpofed to defpife my doctrine, I foresee and lament; but I have not fo learned Chrift, as to be deterred from preaching and teaching what I conceive to be his Gofpel, by obloquy, mifreprefentation, or any other evil. I wifh those who oppofe falutary truth a better mind; and reft with chearfulness under the fatisfaction arifing from a heart conscious, in the present instance, of univerfal benevolence.

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