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The Work having the following Dedication to Charles II: "Most Gracious Sovereign, although I know how little leisure great Kings have to read large Books, or indeed any, save only God's, the study, belief, and obedience of which is precisely commanded, even to Kings, DEUTERONOMY, xvir,v. 18, 19, and from which whatever wholly diverts them, will hazard to damn them, there being no affairs of so great importance, as their serving God and saving their own Souls; nor any precept so wise, just, holy, and safe as the divine oracles; nor any empire so glorious, as that by which Kings, being subject to God's laws, have dominion over themselves, and so best deserve and exercise it over their subjects."

That Ecclesiastical History recommended by Bishop Warburton. He says it is "excellent; the method admirable; in short, it is the only one deserving the name of an Ecclesiastical Dictionary."

The wisdom and sovreignty of God displayed in the afflictions of man.

Those Meditations, of which the author of some very celebrated ones, says "may be regarded, as so many striking Sermons, on the most interesting subjects of our holy religion; or rather, as a judicious abridgment of various excellent Sermons on almost every branch of christianity. In each of which, we have the spirit and energy of a copious discourse, contracted within the small compass of two or three pages. For which reason, I cannot but apprehend, they may be particularly useful in the Family, as well as in the Closet. That one of these short Essays, distinctly or repeatedly read amongst our Domestics, may be more advantageous, than the hasty perusal of a much larger composition!"

A Work on the Plague of Plagues. That Book which is said to have been the means of Col. Gardiner's conversion.

That Book pronounced by the Antijacobin to be "a most unexceptionable manual for the rising generation, and calculated to promote, in no ordinary degree, the education of youth

of all ranks in the doctrine and dicipline of

our venerable Church..

That Book of which his late most excellent Ma

jesty George III. at the age of 15 or 16, purchased about 50 copies for presents. Sermons by Sir Isaac Newton's Tutor, at College. A Work on the Resurrection.

An illustration of the Book of Common Prayer. A Poetical Work by a descendant of the celebrated Nicholas Rowe.

An unguent for all the varieties of sores.
An exposition of the Creed.

The Poor Man's Spot of Ground richly cultivated.

A Work on the "gift of Prayer and Preaching." An invaluable art, which has been taught by many good men.

What we might speak poetically on shaded rows of trees when the sun was setting thereon. The Works of a D. D. Chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I.

That Work from which Mr. Locke took his

first hint to form his Common Place Book to the Bible.

A Poem having the following motto:

"Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed." EXODUS, XIII. 12.

That Poem in the author's preface to which, appears that simple, yet important, calcu lation, "He who has seen threescore and ten years, has lived ten years of sabbaths.” That which Dr. Johnson calls "the finest piece of hortatory Theology in any language." The picturesque and interesting of Scripture. That publication the profits (30 Guineas) resulting from the sale of two editions, were paid to the fund for erecting the lunatic Asylum at Lincoln.

Two Tokens, by Janeway.

Sermons on Doddridge's Rise and Progress. Prayers for every Sunday in the year, intended to precede and follow the Sermon.

A Selection of the most elegant Poetical Translations, Paraphrases, and Imitations of the Sacred Scriptures.

D.

The Poetry of the Bible.

The Works of that Archbishop, in speaking of whom Dr. Doddridge observes "that he is

one of the most devout and pious writers his age has produced."

Sermons "intended to promote" what are spoken of 1. CORINTHIANS, XIII.

A Work on which the Eclectic Review, Feb. 1819, bestows the following commendation: "It is a judicious, pious, and seasonable work,- -a work for which there is every reason to believe that mankind will be the better, and with which a good man may honourably finish the toils of authorship.”

A Work thus highly spoken of:

"This work is conducted upon the plan of the much admired Pilgrim's Progress of John Bunyan, with considerable additions and valuable improvements. There is scarce any religious character, but what is appositely introduced; nor any evangelical truth but what is scripturally recommended; nor any fundamental error, but what is judiciously exposed. In short this whole

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