The PREFACE. BUT many thought he did not excel more in any thing than in prayer. In this he had a fluency of thought and expreffion, which feemed inexhauftible. And the dif- cerning hearer might eafily perceive great fer- vor of fpirit, with an exalt propriety of words, and very exalted drains of devotion, without any thing of the falfe fublime, but perfeully fuitable to the gravity of a folemn addrefs to God. It appears from his diary, that he was at much pains to qualify him- felf for performing this part of the public fervice after a right manner. His prayers upon force particular occafions were corn- pofed with great care, and committed to memory. And as he look'd upon the fcrip- tural flyle to be the molt becoming in our addreffes to God ; fo he made much ufe of fcriptural phrafes, and was very happy in the choice of thofe which were belt adapted to the matter of his petitions, or adoration and praife. THUS, I have given the reader the out- lines of his charai`ler, which he will per- ceive was very uncommon. I (hall no longer detain him from the perufal of the fblláwing dJq
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