Accept my thanks for your volume of Sermons,

& the obliging note accompanying it, which I have this day received. Tho I have as yet done little more than glance at the pages as I cut them open, I perceive that the manner is, as it ought to be, attractive, & likely to be remembered as well as attended to. Dull & vapid sermons are worse than unprofitable; they act as narcotics upon the devotional feelings, & this in no trifling degree counteract the purport of social worship. On the other hand there is no situation from which a man with lively feelings & a well stored mind can enforce sound principles with so much effect as from the pulpit. You will I hope continue so to do, both to the public advantage & your own