The Works of John Berridge - Volume 2

In executing a portraiture of John Berridge have been careful to exhibit him his real features: for genuine biography does not allow of partiality, or any deviation from the reality of character. We find in the sacred scriptures, that the Holy Spirit influenced those, who wrote them, to be faithful in delineating the lives of the Saints therein recorded. The number of letters, which I procured, will sufficiently show the peculiarity of his manner of corresponding with his friends, and will be read, I doubt not, with no common emotions.

Mr. Berridge's farewell sermon preached at the Tabernacle, and outlines of many sermons, which he gave to me before his death, with observations on passages of scripture, are added. He did not compose his outlines in a very complete manner; but only wrote the leading ideas without much of introduction, or application. These he left to be uttered at the time of preaching his sermons.