"His learning, piety, and politenefs recommended him to the
esteem and friendship of feveral of high rank and distinguished learn-
ing, both among the clergy and laity, with whom he kept up a
correfpondence. From them he received very obliging letters, ex-
preffing in ftrong terms, the regard they had for his works, and the
benefit they had found from them. The esteem of fuch perfons
for one in his ftation, was an ample teftimony to his great merit;
as nothing but his perfonal qualifications could recommend him to
their notice."

Mr. Orton's Life of Dr. Doddridge.

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PREFACE.

THE

HE Letters presented in this volume to the publick, will, the editor of them hopes, be found entertaining, interesting, and ufeful. Several of their writers rank high in the records of fame; and all of them were the friends of virtue, piety, and moderation...

The taste of the present times appears to relish publications of this kind: and, provided they be undertaken with deli cacy and judgment, it may not be amiss to indulge and gratify it." That pub"lications like this, (fays Mr. Duncombe, "in his preface to the Letters of Arch

bishop Herring) in which nothing is “said that can offend, nothing but what "must please, or inform, and interest the "reader, are allowable and meritorious,