But I must not omit upon this Occafion' my most Humble Thanks to that Excellent Good Lord, the Right Honourable the Lord Digby, whó, spon an Acquaintance happily contracted at the College, was pleafed at that time to afford me, (at his Seat in Warwickshire) a Comfortable Place of Refuge from that Storm; Though the Government then frown'd upon all that Countenanc'd or Receiv'd Ws; and had Decreed us to be Uncapable of Receiving, or being adnitted to, any Ecclesiastical Dignity, Benefice or Promotion - Such à Seasonable and Generous A&t of Friendship ought never to be forgotten, though it had been single ; But his Lordship has been pleased ever since to receive me with such distinguisbing Kindness, as I can never sufficiently Acknowtedge.

As for the Discourses on the Refurre&tion, she Groundwork of them

Was

was all One Sermon, preach'd before the University of Oxford on EasterTuesday, An. 1686; ; which was afterwards enlarg’d into Four Difcourses at Lincolns-Inn; with a particular Eye to the Socinians, (so far as their Doctrine is concern'd in that Article of the Resurrection, for Reasons which I need not at this Distance of Time trouble the Reader withal,

But upon the mention of LincolnsInn, (since Societies never die,) I gladly lay hold of this, (tho late,) Opportunity, of Returning Publickly my Thankful Acknowledgments to that Honourable Society, for their Con. ftant Kindness and Respects to me, all the Eight Tears that I had the Honour and Happiness to be their Preacher : Which were indeed such, that if my Health would have permitted, I ought in Gratitude never to bave left them.

As

As for the Quotations made use of in any of the following Discourses, Some Few, I see, were taken from

Books which I have not now by me in the Country, to Examine. But in those I have, I find I was sufficiently Careful in the Use I made of them; and therefore I have reason to hope that I made no Mistakes in Quotations, nor any Misconstructions or Misapplications of Any of them.

THE

T H E

CONTENT S.

SERMON I, II. Of Judging Others as to their Final

State. i Cor. iv. 5. Therefore Judge nothing bea before the Time, until the Lord come.

Pag. 1. 23.

SERMON III, IV. The Obligations we have of Grati

tude to God, for his

cies and Deliverances. Luke xvii. 17. Were there not Ten cleansed,

but where are the Nine ?

many Mer

po 59. 84.

S E R M O N V. Vertue and Piety, the likeliest way

to Profperity and Happiness, e

ven in this World. 1 Kings ii. 2, 3 I

go

the Earth; Be Thou strong therefore, and foow thy self a Man;

And

way of all the

a

And keep the Charge of the Lord thy God,

to walk in his Ways, to keep his Staa

tutes and his Commandments and his

Judgments and his Testimonies, that thou

may & Prosper in all that thou doest, and

whithersoever thou tarnest thy self. p. 114.

SERMON VI, VII, VIII, IX.

A Discourse of the Resurrection of

the Body: In Four Sermons.

John v. 28, 29. Marvel not at This; for

the Hour is coming, in the which All

that are in the Graves ßball hear his

And fall come forth; They that have done

Good, unto the Resurrection of Life; and

they that have done Evil, unto the Re-

Surrection of Damnation. p 148. 176.

201. 228.

· Voice;

SERMON X.

The Force of Natural Conscience.

Acts xxiv. 25. As he reasoned of Righte-

ousness, Temperance and Judgment to

come, Felix trembled, and answer'd, Go

thy way for this time; when I have a

Convenient Season, I will call for thee.

p. 257

An