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EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE

1805.

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VOL. XIII.

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PREFACE.

THE termination of another Year, a Year of increasing success, loudly calls on the Conductors of this Work to make their grateful acknowledgments to the Father of Lights; for to HIM, "the Author of every good and perfect gift," they gladly ascribe the general acceptance it has obtained, and the beneficial effects it has produced.

Our thanks are also due to many ingenious and pious Correspondents, whose diversified talents have enriched and enlivened this Miscellany; and whose generous assistance we hope still to enjoy.

The extended circulation of the Work is a sufficient testimony of the public approbation; but we have the additional satisfaction of learning, that much spiritual benefit has been received by some of our readers; and that various parts of this Magazine are, from time to time, translated and reprinted in other countries.

Thankful for such encouragement, we shall venture to hope that, while we are enabled to present our Friends with interesting Memoirs of departed Saints, Essays replete with evangelical truth, important Information concerning the Redeemer's kingdom, together with the Triumphs of Faith on dying beds, we shall

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still be indulged with the public support: nor will our benevolent Readers forget, that while their pious minds are entertained and edified with these pages, the heart of many a MOURNFUL WIDOW is, by the pecuniary produce of the work, made to sing for joy:-a privilege, to which no other periodical work has yet attained.

Our former promises of continued and increased diligence, to render the work respectable and useful, have, we trust, been, in some degree, verified; and we hope for credit when we repeat similar assurances as to the future. The addition of several able Contributors, -a more frequent insertion of papers on Natural History, -and the enlargement of our Foreign Correspondence, will render our Magazine still more acceptable to intelligent and well-informed persons; while a constant regard to the Poor of the Flock, will constrain us never to depart from the Simplicity of the Gospel.

Humbly commending every class of our Readers, together with our feeble attempts, to the protection and blessing of God, we close our Address to the Religious Public, with thanks for their past, and hope of their future patronage.

G. B.

December 31st, 1804.

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You have expressed a wish for a short account of Mr. LAVATER'S Life in your Magazine. I feel the more willing to comply with your request, as I have had many opportunities to observe, that Mr. Lavater is not so well known in this country as, in my humble opinion, he deserves to be. Some persons being, perhaps, only acquainted with the eccentrici. ties of his Physiognomical Works, seem disposed to decry him altogether as an enthusiast: and, as for his religious principles, some are pleased to call him a Socinian; and others, I am told, have very gravely accused him of having lived and died a champion, of Popish superstition. All these misrepresentations would be rectified, if the account of his life, which has been published by his son-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Gesner, in three octavo volumes, were translated from the German, or at least its most essential parts. By this means every reader would be enabled to appreciate the character of Mr. Lavater, who (notwithstanding all his imperfections) for talents, extensive knowledge, unremitting zeal and activity, noble courage, unfeigned Christian piety, and universal benevolence, deserves to hold a distinguished place among the most excellent Divines of ancient or modern times.

Being circumscribed by the plan of your work, which admits only a few pages for Memoirs, I have confined myself to a short narration of the most remarkable events of his life, which are taken, for the most part, from Mr. Gesner's Work; in the selection of which I have paid a principal regard to his private and religious character.

Savoy, London, Nov. 13, 1804.

C. F. STEINKOPFFT.

JOHN CASPAR LAVATER was born in the year 1741, of very respectable parents, in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, who, to the best of their knowledge and abilities, educated him in the strictest principles of virtue and religion.

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