AN

ADDRESS.

ADDRESS

DELIVERED PRIVATELY

TO THE

CANDIDATES FOR HOLY ORDERS,

IN

THE DIOCESE

OF

Barbados and the Leeward Islands.

"Before I became a Priest, which I had a desire to be very young, I
had a very great veneration for that order. I considered it as honourable,
because its end was the honour of God, and the reconciliation of Him to
men as weighty, because the eternal happiness of many was proposed
to be gained by it; as delightful, because the subjects of it were learning,
virtue, and piety."-Parochial Pasturage.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY R. GILBERT,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

MDCCCXXVIII.

MY CHRISTIAN BRETHREN,

AFTER the satisfactory examination which you have respectively passed before the Archdeacon, your subscription to the Articles of the Church, and your declaration of true and undivided allegiance to the King, it might seem improper in me to detain you for a moment from those solemn reflections, which must be now pressing with so much weight upon your minds, and from that secret communion, which you would hold, with your own hearts,

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