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Clergyman’s Instructor, pp. 109, 110, 365. Burnet’s Past. Care, ch. viii. Seeker’s Charges, p. 25, 229, 245. Leighton’s Works, ii. 445, 447. Often Leighton would commiserate the London Clergy (how would his sympathy have been enlarged in our own day beyond the precincts of the metropolis) whom the extent of their cures [i.e. of their parish] disabled them from individual attention to their flock. ‘Were I again’ (he said in his last retirement) ‘to be a parish Minister, I must follow sinners to their homes, and even to their alehouses.’ Life, lv. lvi. Ostervald expresses his surprise, that a Christian Minister can satisfy his own conscience without a diligent parochial Ministration. Lectures on the sacred office, pp. 242-245.