PREFACE. what he expeí"fs, a perfea Tranfcript of thefe Sermons ; and in them a true and lively Strain ofChrifrian Piety and EIo- quence, fo fitted to all Capacities, that I cannot but hope, all that (hall read them will be the better for them, even thofe not excepted cif there be any filch) who may have enter- tain'd any unreafonable Prejudices againfl them, or their moll Reverend Author. I have always thought, and often Paid it, that ifany were leaven'd with Prejudice againfi Him, they were, to be fure, fach as did not know him ; and the farther Igo inhis Wri- tings, the more I am affUred that it muff be fo. But becaufe the Sermons themfelves, to which I refer, are notyet all of them Publifhed, I mull leave this to the judgment of the im- partial Reader, when the whole(hall beftnifh'd, which is da. ftgn'd with all convenient Speed. Lambeth, April 2, 1695. Ra. Barker. The BOOKSELLERS to the READER. THIS is the Preface of Dr. Barker, which he prefix'd to the Firft of the Fourteen Volumes in Oftavo ; and the Reception they have all met with in the World, (bows he was very juft in his Charaéter. The whole Two Hundred Sermons and Difcourfes, you have now in thefe Two Volumes in Folio ; all the Indexes carefully examin'd and fitted to the Pages, which were defeElive in force of the Oftavo Volumes, efpecially the Eleventh. Thefe, with Fifty-four Sermons and Difcourfes, and the Rule of Faith, in An- fwer to Mr. Serjeant's Sure Footing, Publifb'd in his Grace's Life-time, and [nce fix times Re-printed in Folio, male Three Vo- lumes ; and are all his Works ever extant. THE
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