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I did of the sacred worth I must attribute to the exhortations and good councils of my Kinsman Rev. Dr. Nathan Williams of Tolland. "You are" said he, "under very great obligations to God your creator, that he was pleased to bring you to an acquaintance with religion at an early period, & hath blessed you with the important advantages of an education. You are desirous to become a preacher of that gospel, which hath brought life & immortality to light - the work is good, but your motives may be wrong: and these are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Ask yourself seriously, whether you are influenced in your choice of this profession by love to God & love to man. If this be the motive, the christian church