AN APPENDIX, COMPRISING BRIEF MEMOIRS OF THE REV. JOHN THE REV. RICHARD FURMAN, D. D. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.—Psalm cxii. 6. 30 CHICVCO TIBBYKA BX6495 Entered according to Act of Congress, by THOMAS N. STANFORD, in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of New-York. 13853. ADVERTISEMENT. THE present Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D. D. was commenced at the particular solicitation of his surviving relatives and other friends. It was attempted with great diffidence, and continued under all the disadvantages of accumulated public duties and frequent interruptions. Historical accuracy, and not literary excellence, is all at which circumstances have enabled the writer to aim; he would, therefore, bespeak the indulgence of the reader, so far at least as regards those incidental imperfections which a just criticism may detect. With no ambition for authorship, but in humble hope that this biography of a servant of Jesus Christ, so eminently pious, and of such distinguished usefulness, may be made instrumental in promoting that cause to which his youth and hoary age were alike devoted, the work is committed to the providence of God. B vi ADVERTISEMENT. The Appendix, comprising the memoirs of three eminently pious and useful Baptist ministers, has been added, for the purpose of giving greater publicity to the history of their worth. While living, they were the affectionate friends of Dr. Stanford; it seemed, therefore, to be peculiarly appropriate to include the brief narrative of their lives in the same volume. |