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0

ON

SCRIPTURE MYSTERIES,

PREACHED AT

ST. MARY'S, OXFORD,

BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY,

IN THE YEAR 1787;

AT. THE LECTURE

FOUNDED BY THE LATE

REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A.

CANON OF SALISBURY;

WITH

NOT E S

ILLUSTRATIVE AND CRITICAL.

BY WILLIAM HAWKINS, M. A.
PREBENDARY OF WELLS, VICAR OF WHITCHURCH, DORSET,
AND LATE FELLOW OF PEMBROKE-COLLEGE, OXFORD.

OXFORD:

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,

AND SOLD BY D. PRINCE AND J. COOKE, OXFORD;

AND J. F. AND C. RIVINGTON, LONDON,

M DCC LXXXVII,

TO

HIS GRACE

THE

ARCHBISHOP

OF

CANTERBURY.

MY LORD,

AVING had the honour of

H being appointed preacher of

the Bampton Lectures for the current year, by the Heads of Colleges in Oxford, I have the happiness to introduce them to the Public with the additional great advantage of your Grace's protection; an advantage the more confiderable, as it derives as much from the character, as the rank of my patron.