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In the Monthly Review for April, 1798, The Sick Man's Friend is thus noticed:

The writer of this useful manual is already known to the world as the author of several pieces on subjects of practical religion and morality, which are judiciously adapted to promote a spirit of piety among the lower classes of mankind. He speaks of this work, on account of his declining years, as his last attempt to serve the interest of religion; and both in the design and execution, it is worthy of its pious and benevolent author, and cannot fail of being highly acceptable to religious readers. It contains much excellent advice, both to the sick, and to those who attend upon them, and provides meditations and devotional exercises for persons of every character and condition, espe cially in a time of sickness.

Also the following Character is given of it in a Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend, who permitted the insertion of it here:

There is no book I am so often reading as this. It always lies on my table; it has been my companion in travelling; it is by my bedside in sickness. I can read a little in this when I can read nothing else. It is therefore a very useful manual to me, and will be so I apprehend to every sincere Christian, being, as it were, the anatomy of the heart. It will furnish excellent materials for addressing the conscience, for directing any one to judge of his own spiritual state, and for conversing with others experimentally, which is the very life and soul of Christian conversation. It moreover requires to be repeatedly read with much attention, and frequent reflection, in order to become well acquainted with the variety of important matter it contains; and it should be familiarized to the mind of every reader, till he is wrought up by it to some degree of that temper, which it was evidently designed to promote.

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