An Humble, Affectionate, and Earnest Address to the Clergy,

The reason of my humbly and affectionately addressing this
discourse to the clergy, is not because it treats of things not of
common concern to all Christians, but chiefly to invite and induce
them, as far as I can, to the serious perusal of it; and because
whatever is essential to Christian salvation, if either neglected,
overlooked, or mistaken by them, is of the saddest consequence both to
themselves and the churches in which they minister. I say essential to
salvation, for I would not turn my own thoughts, or call the attention
of Christians, to anything but the one thing needful, the one thing
essential and only available to our rising out of our fallen state, and
becoming, as we were at our creation, an holy offspring of God, and
real partakers of the divine nature.