David´s Blessed Man
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Excerpt from David´s Blessed Man: Or, a Short Exposition on the First Psalm, Directing a Man to True Happiness Memoir to bear the name of Sjiith is by itself to declare a Biographers task formidable, however willing and patient he be. To be a Smith of a century or two back is to add perplexity to toil. To be a Smith, and to share name and surname with numbers of contemporaries, is to turn perplexity into bewilderment. To be a Smith, and to have an orthography alternating plain Smith with Smithe, and Smythe, and Smtthies, and to be mentioned as Mr Smith (only) is absolutely to distract. Yet such are literally a few, and only a few, of the conditions under which I have essayed to furnish an Introduction to the present reprint of one of the many golden little volumes of Samuel Smith. Passing over other elements of entanglement that have made our researches a very maze, and which those alone who have pursued siTch investigations can appreciate, there were at least nine Samuel Smiths contemporary, and every one of them a Preacher of the Gospel, and in lesser or larger form a religious author. In all the usual authorities I have found our Samuel confounded with one or other of these contemporaries. It is therefore needful, in the outset, to distinguish each. There was, first of all, the Samuel Smith, a gentlemans son, and accurate disputant, and profound philosopher of Anthony a-Wood whose small Latin treatise on Logic is among the rarities of the Bodleian, (Oxford) and one of those missing, over which the Marsh Library (Dublin) mourns. But he ched in 1620. Then there was a Samuel Smith, who was minister in Olivers time in St Bennet, Grace-Church, London, as well as a Preacher in Essex. He was of the Two Thousand of 1662 ;but subsequently conformed, and ultimately became Ordinary of Newgate. There are now before me Sermons by him, viz, Character of a Weaned Christian; or, the Evangelical Art of promoting Self-Denial, (1675), and Light in Darkness,(1680.) These dates shew as will appear that he was not our Samuel, although these occasionally preached and published Sermons have much of his uncommonness of thought and quaintness of wording, if less rich and fervid in their evangelism. His folio Sheets, giving Account of the Behaviour of the Prisoners in Newgate, have the matter-of-fact truthfulness, touched with tenderness, of De Foe in his Plague.- A third Samuel Smith became Rector of Sandon which is also in Essex in succession to the profoundly-learned, but beyond all dispute, Logic: The following is the title of this very scarce book: Aditua ad Logicam in Usum eorum qui primo Acadenjiam salutant, 1613.See Woods Athenae (by Bliss), ii.283. Wood, as before, iii.698. His son, Lawrence Smith, published a number of excellent books c.gr., Conversation in Heaven,(1693,) Sacramental Devotions, 1694,) Practical Discourse of the Sin against the Holy Ghost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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