1st.-Do they afford a just view, and a veritable statement, of that character, manner, and plan, of religious and moral instruction, which it pleased our blessed Lord to adopt; and which the inspired commissioned preachers of his Gospel adopted, in obedience to his commands, and in conformity to his example?

2nd.-Do the Ministers of our Zion, (generally speaking) pursue this system, and imitate this model, in their pulpit instruction?

A long, and I humbly trust, not an inattentive, study of the New Testament, emboldens me to answer the first question, in the affirmative.

The answer to the second question, I must submit to those, who are better acquainted with the customary tenor of pulpit instruction, in the present day, than

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RICHARD WARNER.

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