THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. 4 SHE AUTHOR of thefe Sermons was fo well known particularly for his moft Excellent and Ufeful Difcourfes from the Pulpit, that 1 fhall not attempt, by any thing I can fay, to recommend -them to the niblick. I know very well, they have already that Credit in the World, which will render any Apologie needlefs ; efpecially when, by this Publication ofthem, they (hall fpeak for themfelves. I think it requifite, only to cure the Reader, That they are what they pretend to be, the genuine Works of that Great Man. Whil I had the Happinefs of Converfing with him, he was pleas'd (at my Requeft) to inftruc`l me in the Chara- der in which he wrote all his Sermons ; and fome ofthefe now Publifhed, having been Tranfcribed by me fome Tears fence, were found amongft his Papers, CorreCled with his Own Hand. By what he had been pleas'd to fay, that I was Mailer ofhis Character, and by the few Errata he obferv'd in my fir ft Performance, Iwas encouraged to fit about this Work ; in Which, I can folemnlyprofefs, that Ihave obferv'd a Reli- gious Care and Striclnefs, neither to omit nor add any thing, but an o% a the, or the like, when the Senfeplainly required it ; and of that too I have given Notice, by affixing this Mark (") upon the VVord which I did not find in the Ori- ginal ; fo that the Reader ii left tojudge ofthe Fitnefi offuck Additions; which, after all, are fo very few and inconfide_ rable, as fcarcely to deferve this Notice; only that he might be fttisfj'd (in cafe the Printer do his Part,) that he bath here, what
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