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The Writer has been induced to send out this New Edition in what will probably be considered a more convenient form. Feeling with the eminently learned and modest Melancthon, that ‘to be single-handed is to be weak,’ 10 he thankfully acknowledges assistance derived from various sources of substantial profit. Though his work has swelled far beyond its original dimensions, he trusts that it may be a Manual of Ministerial responsibilities, privileges, and encouragements, illustrative of the elevated standard of our Ordination engagements, and stimulating to their more devoted and cheerful exercise. The time allowed him for revision enables him to bring out this Edition with far greater satisfaction to himself than any that have preceded it. He only entreats that those who gain from it any instruction or interest, will follow it with their prayers, that it may conduce to the grand designs of the Christian Ministry. May the prayer of an old Writer 11 upon this subject be speedily and largely fulfilled, that our ‘God would give unto his Church pious and faithful Pastors, and unite us together that we may be One in Him; praising Him with heart, tongue, and whole life, so that in a blessed immortality freely granted to us, we may enjoy the presence of the Chief Shepherd, our Mediator Jesus Christ, throughout eternity.’
Old Newton Vicarage,
September 17, 1835.