xxsviii The PREFACE. papers himfelf upon the controverted points, feveral of which were publifhed, and af- fifted in thofe which were publifhed by his friends. BUT befides all this, he made very great progrefs in learning : The reader will per- ceive, from the account of his education already given, that he was too much haf- tened in it; but he laboured afterwards with fuch application, that there were few branches of learning, to which he could be called a ftranger. He had a tafte for the claffics, and underftood them ; and ufed to recommend the Rudy of them very warm- ly to young candidates. He had carefully read the heft fyftematical writers in divini- ty, and was fkilful in their controverfies. He was well acquainted with church hif- tory; underftood the modern improvements in philofophy, and was not a firanger to the various hypothefes of the antients. He was thoroughly verfed in the principles of na- tural religion and morality, and had made the principal authors, both antient and mo- dern, upon thefe arguments, perfectly fami- liar to him : His knowledge in thefe mat- ters belt appears, from the fermons he pub - lifhed
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