In the Preface to Dr. WATTS's sermons in Octavo, the reader will find the following character of this work. "Since I first published these discourses, "the world has been furnished with a more compleat "account of most of these subjects, in that excellent " treatise called the CHRISTIAN TEMPER, which my " worthy friend Dr. EVANS hath sent abroad, and " which is, perhaps, the most compleat summary of " those duties which make up the Christian life, that " hath been published in our age. Dr. JOHN Evans's CHRISTIAN TEMPER contains a course of excellent Sermons on that subject."His Style is grave, plain, manly, and nervous-His Heads always distinct and well arranged; the Scriptures well and properly collected." Vide Dr. Williams's Preacher, TO WHICH IS NOW PREFIXED, A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE BY JOHN ERSKINE, D. D. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF EDINBURGH, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. London: PRINTED FOR RICHARD BAYNES, 1825. : |