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ADVERTISEMENT.

HE following Addrefs was felected

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from a fet of Difcourfes intended chiefly for the improvement of Young Men, and now preparing for the press with all convenient speed. As it was, on a review, thought equally to concern Young Women, the greater part of it was alfo offered to their confideration, upon the First day of the New year. What was then delivered has fince received large additions, which have drawn it out to fuch a length, that, for the relief of the reader, it is divided into Three Parts. From the attention with which it was heard by a very numerous and refpectable auditory, and from the wishes which many have expreffed for its publication, the Author is willing to hope it may do fome good,

DISCOURSE

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THE CHARACTER, &c.

PART I.

JOHN, xi. 5.

NOW JESUS LOVED MARTHA, AND HER

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ROM this amiable circumstance in

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the history of our Saviour, told with a fimplicity inimitably tender, as well as from other beautiful paffages connected with it, we know, not only that he often vifited those worthy perfons, but that his elevated foul took peculiar pleasure in their company. An example of fuch high authority will afford me a very fair occafion for contemplating the intellectual, moral,

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and spiritual intercourse, which ought to fubfift between the fexes, as far as the condition of human hature will allow. A fubject, you must acknowledge, of fufficient moment to merit fome regard.

In the profecution of it, I will first enquire into the Character and Conduct of the Female Sex, who have not, I apprehend, been always treated with the charity or the juftice to which they are entitled; and then point out, as briefly as poffible, the benefit to be derived by Young Men from the Society of Virtuous Women.

I fhould be happy, if I were able, to promote at once the edification and delight of every individual in this affembly: but to hope it, were equal prefumption and ignorance. I have no expectation of gratifying the gay libertine, the gloomy bigot, or the angry critic, if any fuch are prefent; unless it be by fupplying each with ample matter of remark in his own way. And be affured, that they who are much