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CONSIDERED ;

IN

EIGHT SERMONS,

PREACHED BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN THE YEAR MDCCCII.

AT THE

LECTURE FOUNDED BY JOHN BAMPTON, Α. Μ.

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AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOR THE AUTHOR:

SOLD BY W. HANWELL AND J. PARKER, AND J. COOKE, OXFORD;

BY F. AND C. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD; AND R. FAULDER,

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NEW YO: :

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TO THE

KING.

SIRNEW YORK

WHEN I received the permiffion to inscribe these Sermons to Your Majesty, I was not presumptuous enough to confider it as an honour conferred upon myself.

I received it only as a mark of Your Majesty's condescending regard

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to the memory of my Grandfather, whom You had honoured by confidering as one of Your oldeft, and most faithful servants; and I faw in it an additional proof of that goodness, which uniformly leads Your Majesty to retain a gracious recollection of the dutiful attachment of your fubjects.

I am well aware, Sir, that the Sermons which I now prefume to lay at Your Majelty's feet have but little claim to Your notice and protection, from any merit which they may possess in themselves.

But when I recollect how zealoufly Your Majefty has at all times fupported the Established Church, I am

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