UPON SACRED SUBJECTS, BY A Perfon lately deceased. Whatsoever pe do, in wozd oz in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jefus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col. iii. 17. LONDON: Printed in the Year MDCCLVII. P PREFACE. I T is woman, and has been dead for fome time. She never supposed they would be made public, but put down the fentiments of her heart in the confidence of friendship. They were her first thoughts; for she never ftudied them, nor wrote any of them twice over, and has very feldom altered a word in them. This may excufe the inaccuracies which fome perfons of a refined taste may here find. Befides they are not recommended as patterns of polite epiftolary correfpondence. Their merit is of another. kind. It confifts neither in the fineness of the language, nor in the elegance of the manner, A 2 |