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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE SERMONS contained in the following Se-
lection, are, properly speaking, abridgments of
the original. These abridgments, however,
have not been effected by a curtailment of any
thing important, but by the omission of what
is less so. The controversial style of preaching
which prevailed in the days of ARCHBISHOP
TILLOTSON, renders his discourses (though
abounding with information to the professed
theologian) tedious and less interesting to the
general reader. No person, however, can have
attentively read them, and observed the admi-
rable manner in which the principles of Reli-
gion are therein presented to the understanding,
and its practice urged upon the conscience of
men, without feeling a wish for the means of
rendering them more extensively known and
useful. To afford these means is the object of
the present work. By any one, who will be at
the trouble of comparing the first Sermon in

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this Selection, for instance, with the original,
it will be seen that, whilst, with a few of the
introductory sentences, the controversial part
(which principally refers to objections now for-
gotten or passed away) has been omitted, all
that is most conducive to Christian doctrine
and practice is faithfully retained. With the
exception of some few expressions, which have
been modernized, the language is that of the
learned and pious author. But it is unneces-
sary to say more respecting the manner in
which this abridgment has been executed, be-
cause it has already met with general approba-
tion. The present edition is a republication of
what first appeared about sixty years since, but
which has long been out of print. In again
offering it to public notice, and at a price
which places it within the acquisition of the
community, the Publishers entertain a well-
founded hope, that they are contributing no
unworthy assistance to the cause of Morality,
good Order, and Religion, at a time when the
exertions of all its friends are so loudly and
imperiously demanded.

August, 1820.