A treatise on comforting afflicted consciences - The Digital Puritan

xlMEMOIR OF THE REV. ROBERT BOLTON.tened conscience. He was a man in whom his friendshad nothing to regret, except that his exertions in thecause of God probably shortened his days ;and whomhis greatest enemies could accuse with nothing but thathe preached too often and lived too precisely. Hisworks contain accurate and extraordinarily comprehensiveviews of the truths of revelation, and his descriptionof their influence upon the affections of thehuman heart are profound and correct. They possess alsoan additional excellency, which did not always attendthe religious writings of his age, or even of our own,they are expressed in language devoid of technical orpeculiar phrases. He has written in the same stylethat an enlightened contemporary would have doneupon a subject of English literature. He has thusevinced among many other valuable writers since histime, that every truth and every doctrine mat/ be expressedin the ordinary language of mankind : his writingsare consequently free from those peculiaritiesstyle which are sometimes so used as to render obscurewhat is plain, and to darken still more what isreally mysterious.ofSalisbury Square, Fleet Street,September, 1831.