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CHARGES,

AND

EXTRACTS OF CHARGES,

ON

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS;

DELIVERED AT SUNDRY TIMES,

BY THE HONORABLE

JACOB RUSH,

President of the Third District of the Court of Common Pleas
and Quarter Sessions for the State of Pennsylvania.

With a Recommendation by the Reverend Clergy of the
Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED,

THE ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
PENNSYLVANIA, RESPECTING

VICE AND IMMORALITY.

PHILADELPHIA-PRINTED:

NEW YORK;

27-PRINTED BY GEO: FORMAN, NO. 64, WATER-STREETS,
FOR CORNELIUS DAVIS, NO. 7, PECK SLIP.

MAY, 1804.

THENEW YORK PURCICLIBRARY

54170

LENOX AND

UNDATIONS.

97.

RECOMMENDATION.

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HE following Charges and Addresses of Judge

Trust, have not been published at his expence,

nor by his request. A number of gentlemen who had read some of them in the newspapers, were much impressed, both with the importance of the matter they in, and the forcible and perspicuous manner in which it is conicated, as to engage them to take measures for the publication of the whole, in a form that should be more durable and more generally useful. With this view they solicited the Judge to furnish them with a complete and correct copy. He kindly complied with the solicitation—and this is all the agency or concern that he has had in the business.

The printer, who has published this pamphlet at his own risk, agreed to do it, on condition that the Subscribers would previously peruse it, and engage to give their recommendation of it to the public. They hope to escape the charge of vanity or arrogance, in haying fulfilled the condition prescribed-They have read the pamphlet with attention, and do now cheerfully and cordially recommend it, as a most valuable and seasonable publication. They think that it explains and enforces a number of moral and religious duties, in a manner that will appear to many, at once, new, just, and striking. They think it particularly and highly estimable, as it domonstrates the connexion between the principles of religion and those of social happiness to be necessary and indissoluble; and explains the extent to which our municipal laws enforce a regard to the laws of God. They are persuaded that it is well calculated to render every person, who seriously and candidly reads it, both a better Christian and a better Citizen; and therefore they sincerely wish that it may have an extensive circulation,

ASHBEL GREEN,

PHILIP MILLEDOLLER,

Philadelphia, Jan. 4, 1803.

JACOB J. JANEWAY,

GEORGE C. POTTS,

JOHN BLAIR LINN.

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