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SERMONS,

OF THE LATE

Jacques
REV. JAMES SAURIN

ON

VARIOUS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.

CONCORD:

PRINTED BY GEORGE HOUGH,

FOR CHARLES PEINCE,

PORTSMOUTH, N. H.

1806.

THE Reverend JAMES SAURIN, the author of the enfuing difcourfes, was born at Nifmes, a noted city of France, in 1677. His father was a lawyer, eminent for his learning and eloquence, of the proteftant profeffion, who, upon the revocation of the edict of Nantz, retired to Geneva, where he ended his days. James removed with him, and was educated under fome of the moft learned and pious profeffors of the age.

Having completed his ftudies, in 1700 he visited England, where he refided nearly five years, and was remarkably acceptable as a preacher among his fellow exiles in the city of London.

"His ftyle," fays the tranflator of his fermons, the Reverend Robert Robinson, "was pure, unaffected, and eloquent, fometimes plain, fometimes flowery; but never improper, as it was always adapted to the audience for whose fake he spoke.”

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