Excerpt from Fragments, or Miscellaneous SketchesThis is a volume of humble pretensions. It has been called forth by the solicitations of friends, and is designed, principally, for their perusal and gratifica tion. The sketches it contains were written at differ ent times, and mostly in hours of bodily af¿iction. The Author has been several times laid aside, through indisposition, from his regular ministerial labors and it was then, while unable to preach or to apply himself to any severe studies, that these sketches were thrown together. He had no expectation when they were written that they would ever be published. They were written as strength and leisure permitted, for the Author's own profit and improvement. Many painfui and gloomy hours were in this way pleasantly whiled away. The Author hopes his Sketches may prove, notwithstanding their imperfections, a source of profit to those who may peruse them, and that they may subserve, though in a limited degree, the great inter ests of the Christian religion. Perhaps they may also serve, if his present infirmities are the presage of an early tomb, a pleasing memento when he is gone, to his surviving friends.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.