THE T . HE Writings ofihi< Right Reverend Prelate .have foundfo General Acceptance both among the Cler~;y and. .Laity, that no1il Encourngement u gi'Ven to put them altogether tnto ofJe enttre Volttme; 1ne Author, tbo' be was a Perfon ofGreat Natural Parts and Excellent Learning, ;•et was endowed with fo Qreat Nfodejiy and Humility, and hadjitch <'eYJ mean tind low Thoughts ofHzmfelf and /m own Performances, that the J<Vorld, while be lived, had very ltttle K.JZOIVl~dge ,of hzm from the Pre{f; he havzng pub- /i(bed nothing but 1vhat he wao conjlrained to, either bJ the rejlleft Importunity of Friends, or the Commands of thofe who rvere fome time hii Srtperiours. What JVM pubtifbed bj himfelf the Reader JVi!lfind placed at the beginning of thu Volume, and confifls of that incomparable Trar!! Entituled, The Vanity of the World. A Sermon preach'd at the Funera of the Honourable Algernoon Grevil, Efq; which in the Opinion ofvery gofJd Judges Uequal with, if not exceeds, rpe mojl celebrated Pieces th~t have been Printed on Funeral Occafions. And his Sermon Preached at Chnfl:-Church Dublm, whtth, as u menttoned afterwards, oicafioned hu being promoted to a confiderable Station in the Church in the KJngdorn of Ireland. 1ne other Pieces contained in thu Volume were all publifbed fince hi; Death. And tho' it cannot be exper!ed that what u Pofl:humous fbottld in every Sentence and l'.•Jfage thereof be as Exa[/ and Accurate as if the Author had put hu lajl Hand to it, yet the(e_ bifco~rfes are I'Vrttt~n tn a St')_'le and rvrtf, an. Exa£l:nefs Pecultar to /;;, Lordihip ; whtch, bJ compmng them JVtth what he publifbed hzmfelf, beyond a!/ Controverjie denote them1to be his own. Ptlt for farther Satisfar!ion that the World u not impofed upon, , nor an1 lnju.flice done to the Author's Memory bj the Printinr, of theft Difcourjis ; it ""} not onlj be j:t id that there .re many Perfons jet alive who withgreat Delight and Benefit heard him prwh all the Sermom that have been p~blijbed under his Lordfbip's Name, And who, if_ Ouafton be, can and will attejl that they .are Genuine: But the Reader is herebJ a]fured that the greatijl part of them 1vere b; hu Permiflion, at ·jhe defire, and for the fake of fome Parttcular Frtends, Tranferibed from his own Mantt{cripts, and Correr!ed bJ him• . . The rejl were taken from hu Mouth by the Pen of a Ready ·w nter, wzth great Exar!ne{s, mfomqch that they bemg commztted to his Lordfbip's Revie1v after they 1vere tranfcribed, he cottld not but commend t!Je Writer's Dexterity, and permitted him to keep them upon this Condition (which Jve ma; prejitme were the Terms upon wluch he roer granted a Cop] of any of hu Difiourjes) That nothing m,iglit be Printed while he L ived. Which Expre/]lon, by the way may be interpreted a tacit Allowance for the Printing ofthem ~fter he"'"' Dead; Now having, I hope, fatiljied the Reader that thiji Dijcourfes are his n•hofe Name they bear, there needs nothzng, tn thu Place, to be fard m Commendation of them; their OJVrt E.xcellenry and Eloquence will Praife them bejl. Let that jit/fice then to recommend them t~ hU ferious Perrtflt.l ( T}'hicb Ufoid concerning. another "· Grw Man's Works) vzz. That they are Ammated thl'Oughout w1tli fuch ' z>,J." a Genuine Spirit ofTrue Piety and Goodnefs, that furdy he mufl: be either"'· "i" a perfea!y Good, or a prodigiou!ly,Bad Man, that Reads them over with-~.";, tn- 'lUt being the better for them. As lotfon.
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