THE PRINCIPLES OF HOLY CATHOLIC RELIGION: OR, THE CATECHISM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Paraphrased; THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST IT ANSWERED; WITH SHORT PRAYERS FOR THE MORNING AND EVENING BY RICHARD SHERLOCK, D D. RECTOR OF WINWICK IN LANCASHIRE. A NEW EDITION. * OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. MDCCCXLI. THE PRINCIPLES OF HOLY CATHOLIC RELIGION: OR, THE CATECHISM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLA Paraphrased; THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST IT ANSWERED; WITH SHORT PRAYERS FOR THE MORNING AND EVEN ANNEXED. BY RICHARD SHERLOCK LD. RECTOR OF WINWICK IN LANCASHIRE. A NEW EDITION. * OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER MDCCCXLI EDITOR'S PREFACE. SOME account of the Author of the following Paraphrase, who lived in the seventeenth century, and was connected with the primitive good Bishop Wilson, has appeared in a recent edition of another production of his pen, which, like the present, though they both formerly underwent many impressions, had become very scarce. Of the Treatise alluded to, entitled "The Practical Christian," I am desirous here to speak a word in its praise, and to observe how calculated are its contents to promote the cause of genuine religion. He who has met with the work, will be unwilling not to possess and make his companion a manual so conducive to advancement in the ways of a true piety and an exemplary conversation of life. To the merits of the present little work we have the suffrage of the celebrated Dr. Hammond, (vide p. 11,) and the additional |