
by Isaac Watts
Excerpt from An Humble Attempt Towards the Revival of Practical Religion Among Christians: By a Serious Address to Ministers and People, in Some Several Discourses But the Providence of God prevented me from fulfilling tloat Service by confining me to a Bed of Sicbnefs on tloat Day. In tloe C ompofition of tbat Difcourfe my Tbouglots ran out to four or five Times tbe Lengtb of wloat would bave been fufieient for tbat Service, [0 tbat I ma]? Loave greatly contratted it in tbe Delivery r But being mucb importuned bot/o by my Reverend Brat/oer, wao bas perufizd far tbe greate/t Part of it, and by tloe Congregation now under lois Care, to malee it publicle, I bave revifed it wit/o a larger View, and loumbly loope tloat my younger Bretbren in tbe Mini/try may be in fome Meafure excited and encouraged bereby to do tbeir Part toward tbc Revival of decaying Piety. 't is exprejsly wita tbis View and De/ign, tbat my wortby Friend Mr. David Some in Leiceflzeri'hire publi/loed an excellent Sermon la/t 2 ear, tae Perufal wbereof I would beartily recommend to all my Bretbren. 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.
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