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THE

SERMONS,

AND OTHER

PRACTICAL WORKS,

Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED

MR. RALPH ERSKIN E,

Minister of the Gospel in DUNFERMLIne.

CONSISTING OF

Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, befides his POETICAL PIECES.

IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO.

To which is prefixed,

An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS, with an ELEGIAC POEM, and large CONTENTS.

We are ambassadors for Christ. 2 Con. v. 20.

VOL. X.

FALKIRK:

PRINTED BY PATRICK MAIR,

For PETER MUIRHEAD, Merchant, the Revd. JOHN STEWART,

and HUGH MITCHELL, Book feller, the Publifhers.

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POETICAL compofitions, it will readily be ad

mitted, are of a very antient original; and very early fpecimens of this kind of writing are yet to be found on record, both in facred and profane ftory.Writings in poely have many peculiar excellencies in them, and particular advantages attending them: and when men, endued with poetical talents, employ them on fubjects of real importance, the fparkling and flowery images, the magnificent and lofty expreffions, and the ftriking figures and retorical embellifhments, add fuch a native grandeur, dignity, and majefty to the fubject, that the mind is not only, truly elevated, the attention, gained, the affections moved, and devotion excited; but the memory is gradually prepared to retain and be benefited by them, on account of the beautiful and elegant manner in which the various topics are elucidated.

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* See the Song of Mofes at the Red Sea, Exod. xv. 1,— This Song is the most antient and fublime piece of poetry in the world: the images are natural; the arangement of its ideas is beautiful; and the strain of piety which breathes through the whole, is truly evangelical.

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