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Of the LEARNED

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, D.D.

Rector of St. LAWRENCE JEWRY,

LONDON.

VOLUME III.

ABERDEEN:

Printed by J. CHALMERS, for ALEXANDER
THOMSON Bookfeller, and fold at his Shop in
the Broadgate.

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PREFACE

A Mongft thofe many things which are made publick; it may be thought, perhaps, of fermons; that they are, of any other, the leaft wanted, and, for the future, leaft likely to be found wanting: fince to that rich and inexhaustible ftore, with which the learned and orthodox divines of England have already furnished us, there is daily fresh addition, from worthy and able hands. Neither have' we cause to fear a ceffation in this kind; or that fo great a bleffing is likely to fail us, for the future; having fuch fecurity, not only from the unwearied zeal of prefent divines (of whom we may always hope a worthy fucceffion) but, from the juft efteem which the publick never fails to fhew for fuch pious difcourfes. Upon which account, we find that many, of these are every day made publick; and, as it were, forced into the world; notwithstanding the great modefty of their authors whofe humble thoughts and devoutly refigned affections, lead them not towards eminence and advancement in the world.

It may feem ftrange therefore, that in such an age as this, any one fhould be fo officious, as to fearch after, and publifh the fermons of a man long fince dead, who (himself) never meant to publish any; or thought fo highly of himself, as that he could benefit the world by fuch a publication.

It is certain, that we must not ever imagine, nor can it enter into a mind truly christian, that because we see not an apparent change for the better, in the lives of chriftian profeffors; that, therefore all preaching is ineffectual; or, that here in England, the labours of the moft eminent divines that perhaps the world ever afforded, have been of no use VOL. III.

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