Sermons on several subjects, publ. by B. Porteus and G. Stinton

BODLEIAN

21-9-1915

LIBRARY

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ADVERTISEMENT.

HE Editors think it

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necessary to fignify,

that the three Volumes of Sermon's, now offered to the Public, are the last of Archbishop SECKER'S Works, which they intend to print. Of these, the fifth and seventh confift of miscellaneous Sermons, not at all inferior, as they conceive, to the former Volumes. The fixth contains a Series of Discourses, on Scripture, on the English Liturgy, and against Popery; some of which they once doubted whether it would be adviseable to make public. But several of the Author's Friends, who had heard them preached, and received great Satisfaction from them, were extremely desirous to have them all collected into one Volume, and added to the two others. This induced the Editors not only to give these Discourses a second and more careful Examination, but to submit them to the Perusal of a Person of high Rank in the Church and acknowledged Abilities, who thought them much too ufeful and instructive to be suppressed: especially as both the Nature
of the Subjects, and the Manner of treating
them, gave them some Affinity to the Lectures
on the Church Catechism. On these Grounds,
the Editors now give them to the World; and
have little Doubt but that these concluding
Volumes will meet with the fame Approbation
which the preceding ones have received from
all Ranks of People.

It may be proper to add, that the nine Ser-
mons, on the War and Rebellion, published in
the Year 1758, by the Author himself when he
was Bishop of Oxford, which were out of Print,
and much fought after, are now reprinted, by
the Bookfellers, with the Addition of the An-
fwer to Dr. Mayhew, and the Letter to Mr.
Horace Walpole. This Volume, together with
the fourteen occafional Sermons, printed by his
Grace in 1766, the two Volumes of Lectures on
the Church Catechism, one of Charges, &c. and
seven of Sermons, published since his Death,
complete his Grace's Works in twelve Volume
Octava.