Of 'A1r. I-Ienry ScougaL preffions fo plain, and proper, and welt ( · chofen, his deportn1ent fo grave and un– affecred, becon1ing t-he fen(e of whofe -an1bafiador he was, his 1nanner of utterance: f'O affeCl:ionate, and expreffiv.e of the paf– fionate love and concern he had for mens:; fouls, accon1panied with fuch an aCt o'f fweetnefs and mildnefs, a$ charmed Jnens fpirits. And all was fo full- of light and beat, that I think I may ·fay, in the words. of the difciples.. concerning our bleffed· Saviour, Did tzot _our hearts burn withinus, while ~e · opened unto us the ftriptures ~ How did the hol:Y Spirit by hi·m enlighten~ @ur n1ii1ds, and affeCt our hearts? There, are, fom~ kinds of _words and expreffions,. fon1e tones and ways of utterance, which1 will raife the paffions and affections of pre– difpofed ten1pers, without at all enlighten~· ihg their n1inds·, even as n1ufick does'b, And there are others capable of laying open. the ·nature and reafon of things, but in fo~ dry a manner, that they float merely upon. our underfianding as matter of[peculation, and talk, and do not link into our hearts .... And tho' there be much noi{e now-a-days, about the meth<:>ds of preaching, and the preference of one t0, another; yet it is in, this, I an1 afraid, that we lofe ourfelves on. • botl:L
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