DISCOURSES

DELIVERED EXTEMPORE

SEVERAL

MEETING HOUSES

OF THE PEOPLE

CALLED

QUAKERS,

IN GREAT-BRITAIN.

FROM THE YEAR 1767 TO THE YEAR 1770,

INCLUSIVE.

BY SAMUEL FOTHERGILL.

MOSTLY TAKEN DOWN IN CHARACTERS, BY A MEMBER OF
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

A NEW EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY B. JOHNSON, No. 249, AND J. JOHNSON,
No. 147, HIGH-STREET.

ANDOVER-HARTARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE, MASS,

A71.792

THE

ANNEXED ACCOUNT

OF THE

ELOQUENT MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL

WHO

DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING PATHETIC EXHORTATIONS,

As the Spirit gave him utterance,

Appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine
for 1773, under the signature of
'A Lover of Truth and Virtue.'

O commemorate the virtues of great and

Teminent men, who have been honoura

ble in their day, is a tribute due to their memory. A tribute which sensible men pay from emotions of respectful gratitude; and from a hope that it may prove an incentive to the living to emulate their virtues.

"Of this class the late Mr. SAMUEL FoTHERGILL, of Warrington, an eminent preacher among the Quakers, may with great justice be ranked. I knew him well, and had the happiness of his occasional acquaintance; I call it the