SAMUEL CLARKE

D. D.

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By SAMUEL CLARKE, D. D.
Late Rector of St James's Westminster.

Published from the AUTHOR's Manufcript,
By JOHN CLARKE, D. D. Dean of Sarum.

1682-1757

VOL. I.

With A PREFACE, giving fome Account of the
LIFE, WRITINGS, and CHARACTER of the AUTHOR:
By BENJAMIN, now Lord Bishop of Winchester.

The SIXTH EDITION, Corrected.

LONDON:

Printed for JoHN and PAUL KNAPTON, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street. M DCC XLIII.

1924

10 vols

TO THE

QUEEN.

MADAM,

BEG leave, in the most humble manner, to prefent to Your MA

JESTY, a Body of

Sermons, not unworthy, I trust, your Royal Countenance and

of

Protection.

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THE near Relation in which the Author of Them ftood to Me, makes it almost impossible for Me to know How to speak, upon this occafion, either of Him, or of His Writings.

I AM fenfible, It would ill become Me to mix my private Griefs, with the Duty I am now performing to his Memory, and much worse, to pretend to pass a Judgment upon his Works, for which I may juftly be thought to have too defective a Capacity, and too tender a Partiality. They will All be foon before the World, to fpeak for Themselves: And then the Character which They deserve, will certainly attend upon Them, with a much better Grace,

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