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1811.
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S. GOSNELL, _Printer_, _Little Queen Street_, _London_.
ADVERTISEMENT
TO THE
_SECOND EDITION_.
THE Author of the following Tract cannot hope that he has said any thing
new upon this important subject; but having had occasion to consider the
objections usually made by young persons, to excuse their non-attendance
on this sacred ordinance, he trusts he has been able to place the answers
to those objections in a new point of view, and to compress in a few
pages, what his reading and memory supplied from various sources.
The Letter, as it purports to have been, was written to a gentleman, who
had expressed to the Author many of the scruples here obviated; and by
the strong solicitation of two or three respectable friends, who were of
opinion that it was calculated to do much good, he was induced to give it
a more extensive circulation. That much good has been done by the
publication of this little Tract the Author has the comfort and
satisfaction of knowing upon undoubted testimony. And when his
Bookseller informs him, that in a period of less than nine months the
whole of the first impression, consisting of three thousand copies, has
been disposed of, may he not be allowed to hope that it has done much
more extensive good than can possibly be known? {4a} The Author,
therefore, though a Layman, and though to the clergy is more peculiarly
committed the charge of bringing men to the love and obedience of Jesus
Christ, trusts he is not offending against the respect and reverence due
to their sacred function and ministry, if “with Christian solicitude,
seizing every opportunity which his station affords him of strengthening
others in genuine faith, and of upholding and advancing them in
holiness,” {4b} he sends forth a second large and improved edition of a
Tract, for which there has been so great a demand.
_September_, 1804.
AN
EARNEST EXHORTATION,
&c.