VILLAGE DIALOGUES, BETWEEN FARMER LITTLEWORTH, REV. MR. LOVEGOOD, AND OTHERS. BY ROWLAND HILL, A. M. FOUR VOLUMES IN TWO. WOODWARD's FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FROM THE FOURTH LONDON, Corrected by the Author. VOL. II. Philadelphia: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. W. WOODWARD, CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. XIX. The Second Part of the same Dialogue continued, with the Character of Three Sorts of Ministers represented. 36 XXIII. The Story of Mrs. Chipman resumed, containing an Account of the Return XXX. An Account of the Ministerial Cha- racters of Mr. Deliberate, and Mr. Legal-definition: together with a farther Narration of Mrs. Chipman, and the Result of Mr. Lovegood's XXXI. The Character of Mr. Fribble, and some farther Narration of Events occasioned by Mr. Lovegood's Vi- sit to Locksbury, with the Charac- XXXII. The Folly and Evils of Sectarian Bigotry exposed: together with a VILLAGE DIALOGUES. DIALOGUE XVIII. MR. WORTHY AND FAMILY, MR. LOVEGOOD, AND MR. MERRYMAN. THE CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER EXEMPLIFIED. AS Henry Littleworth, from a variety of circum stances, was detained some weeks at Locksbury on Mrs. Chipman's affairs; a detail of other events, during that interval, may not be unacceptable to the reader. There were a few serious and godly clergymen, about the neighbourhood of Brookfield, who were in the habit of associating together in rotation, at each other's houses, for the purpose of mutual edification in their sacred work. A meeting of this sort was held at Mr. Lovegood's, during the time when Mrs. Chipman's affairs were in agitation. At these meetings one of the ministers always preached in his turn. This office now fell to the lot of Mr. Merryman; and an admirable and affec ting sermon he preached, in some respects not less suitable to his own experience than to that of Mrs. Chipman, from the following text: "And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are VOL. II. B |