UTHENTIC NARRATIVE O F SOME Remarkable and Interesting Particulars IN THE LIFE of ******* Communicated In a SERIES of LETTERS, T The REVEREND Mr HAWEI S, And by him (at the Request of Friends) now made public. I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead Ifa. xlii. 16. I am as a wonder unto many. Pfal. Ixxi. 7. The THIRD EDITION LONDON: Printed for S. DRAPIER, T. HITCH, and P. HILL. M. DCC. LXV. 210. m. 862 PREFACE. 'HE firft of the following TH TLetters is fo well adapted an introduction to the reft, that to trouble the reader with a long preface would be quite needlefs and impertinent. I will thereforė detain him from entering upon the delightful and initructive relation which the following sheets present him with, little longer, than while I affure him that the narrative is quite geA 2 nuine, nuine, and that the following letters were written to me at my requeft. Some verbal relations of the facts awakened my curiofity to fee a more connected account of them, which the author very obligingly confented to, having at that time no intention of its being made public.—But the repeated follicitations of friends have at last prevailed; and indeed the publication is the more needful, as feveral imperfect copies have been handed about, and there has been cause to think fome furreptitious edition might fteal through the prefs into the hands of the public. I have therefore, with confent of the author, now fent thefe let ters ters abroad in their original form. They were written in hafte, as letters of friendship, to gratify my curiofity; but the style, as well as the narrative itself, is fo plain and easy, that corrections were thought needlefs. I can only add my best wishes, that the great truths they contain may prove as edifying, as the facts are striking and entertaining. |