Published by the fame Author. CYCLOPÆDIA;

OR,

Mr. CHAMBERS's UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY

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ARTS and SCIENCES.

WITH THE

SUPPLEMENT and MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, incorporated in one ALPHABET.

IN FOUR VOLUME S. Illuftrated with a great Number of Copper-Plates CONDITIONS

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III. In the Courfe of the Work is given, gratis, a great Variety of new Engravings, to illuftrate the Improvements made in the prefent Edition.

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LIKEWISE

THE OBLICATION AND IMPORTANCE OF SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES, AS A PRESERVATIVE FROM

Preached at Salter's-Hall, Nov. 5, 1779. To the Society, that fupport the Lord's-Day Evening Lecture at that Place; -and published at the Request of the Society.

ALSO

THE ADVANTAGES OF KNOWLEDGE, ILLUSTRATED AND

RECOMMENDED IN A

S Ε R M 0 N,

Delivered on Wednesday the 30th April, 1788, at the Meeting-houfe in the Old Jewry, London, to the fupporters of a New Academical inititution among Protefant Diffenters.

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INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE.

DEAR SIR,

You

OUR qualifications for the Chriftian Miniftry have been long known and approved. To the abilities which you have derived from the Author of Nature, and the knowledge which you have acquired by a course of regular education, you have fuperadded the application, improvement and experience of maturer years; and you are thoroughly furnished for every good word and work.

Your brethren and friends, who are affembled on the prefent occafion, need no evidence of your fitness for the office which you have undertaken : Nor does the congregation, to which you minifter with distinguished approbation, and with the pleafing profpect of increafing ufefulness, require any fatisfaction in this refpect. We claim no right to invest you either with the office of a chriftian minifter in general, or with that of the pastor of this Christian Society in particular. The former depends

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