HE author of thefe fermons was fo well known, par
Tricularly for his most excellent and useful difcourfes from the pulpit, that I shall not attempt, by any thing I can fay, to recommend them to the publick. I know very well, they have already that credit in the world, which will render any apology needlefs; efpecially when, by this publication of them, they fhall fpeak for themselves.
I think it requifite, only to affure the reader, that they are what they pretend to be, the genuine works of that great man.
Whilft I had the happiness of converfing with him, he was pleafed (at my request) to inftruct me in the charaeter in which he wrote all his fermons and fome of these now published, having been tranfcribed by me fome years fince, were found among ft his papers, corrected with his own hand.
By what he had been pleafed to fay, that I was master of his character, and by the few errata he observed in my firft performance, I was encouraged to fet about this work; in which I can folemnly profefs, that I have obferved a religious care and strictness, neither to omit nor add any thing,