AND DISCOURSES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS AND OCCASION S. BY FRANCIS ATTERBURY, D. D. Printed for C. and R. WARE, T. LONGMAN, M. DC C. LXXIV. GL 01083335155 The PUBLISHER'S PREFACE THE HE following fermons being the genuine works of that great, but unfortunate prelate, whose name they bear (as I affure the world, bating the errors of the prefs, they all of them are, and as the inimitable style in which they are, written proves them to be) there needs no apology for the publication of them: that they are his is fufficient to justify their appearance in print; and to recommend them likewife to the reader: for his enemies and friends feem all to agree in this part of his character, That he was as judicious, inftructive, convincing, perfuafive, and delightful a preacher, as ever England bred. The only excufe therefore, that I think myself obliged to make on this occafion, is, for not pubTithing more of them, than what are contained in these two pofthumous volumes; for every one will naturally conclude, that he left a great many more behind him, having been a conftant preach |