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Engraved by W. Finden, from a Picture in the possession of the Rev. C. Simeon.

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Published by R.B. Seeley & W. Burnside: Fleet Street, May 11830.

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THE REV. HENRY MARTYN, B.D.

LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

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PRINTED FOR R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE:
AND SOLD BY L. B. SEELEY AND SONS,
FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXI.

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BEFORE the reader proceeds to the perusal of the following Memoir, it may be proper to inform him, that the first and second parts of it have been chiefly selected from various journals, which Mr. Martyn was in the habit of keeping for his own private use, and which, beginning with the year 1803, comprehend a period of eight years. The third part is

extracted from an account which he drew up of his visit to Shiraz in Persia; in which some occasional observations on the state of his own mind and feelings are interspersed. It is termed a Narrative' by Mr. Martyn: and it was probably his intention to have enlarged it, for the use of the public, had his life been spared, or perhaps to have communicated it, nearly in its original shape, to his intimate friends. From the style and manner of it, at

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least, it may be presumed not to have been exclusively intended, as the journals abovementioned evidently were, for his own recollection and benefit. The greater part of the last-mentioned papers were upon the point of being destroyed by the writer on his undertaking his voyage to Persia; but, happily, he was prevailed upon by the Rev. D. Corrie to confide them under a seal to his care, and by him they were transmitted from India to the Rev. C. Simeon and J. Thornton, Esq., Mr. Martyn's executors, in the year 1814. 'The Narrative,' which was sent by Mr. Morier from Constantinople, came into their hands in the following year. Such are the materials from which I have compiled the present memoir,throughout the whole of which I have endeavoured, as much as possible, to let Mr. Martyn speak for himself, and thus to exhibit a genuine picture of his own mind.

In making a selection from a mass of such valuable matter, it has been my anxious wish and sincere prayer, that it might prove subservient to the interests of true religion. One principal object with me has been, to render it beneficial to those disinterested ministers of the gospel, who, “with the Bible in their hand, and their Saviour

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