Excerpt from The Moral and Religious Miscellany, or Sixty-One Aphoretical Essays, on Some of the Most Important Christian Doctrines and Virtues, Vol. 1 of 2 HE following little Essays, were drawn up mav ny years ago, partly as helps to moral and di vine conference, ina religious society, and partly as the result of such conferences. They are general ly the result of free, and pretty enlarged and com prehensive meditations on the subjects they treat of, and consist of such thoughts as occurred first and most obviously to the open mind, in its free and nu fettered discursions on said subjects they were meant merely as hints to start the conversation, and to keep it alive, and to the business in hand, that it might not deviate into wild and impertinent digressions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.