A sermon, preached at Orange-Street Chapel, Leicester-Fields, on Sunday the 26th of August, 1787; : occasioned by the much lamented death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D. D. rector of Bloxham, in Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian. / by John Townsend.

  • Townsend, John, 1757-1826.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A sermon, preached at Orange-Street Chapel, Leicester-Fields, on Sunday the 26th of August, 1787; : occasioned by the much lamented death of the Rev. Henry Peckwell, D. D. rector of Bloxham, in Lincolnshire, and chaplain to the Most Honourable the Marchioness Dowager of Lothian. / by John Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T Q T H 1 Gentlemen iti Truft for the Cha¬ pel in Orange-Street, Leiceiler- Fields. / GENTLEMEN, ' J^T zuas not only by your dejire the following Dif courfe was preached, ^as a token of refpeH to the memory of a man, univerfally and jufly ejleemed in all the churches; hut it is now likewije, at your earneft folicitatiorij prefented to more public view. ‘—The common apology, ^fublijhcd by requeff has long been confidered as a refuge^ to xuhich the Authors of Sermons refort, to fcreen themfelves from the feverity of criticifm. Many have adapted it, who, in this refpeEl, needed it much lefs than myfelf: hut few have done it xuith more fincerity or truth ; for the writing and publijhing Sermons, is a xuork for xvhich, I fncerely profefs, I have neither ability, in^ dination, or Uifure ; and the doing of it, in the