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But I must not omit upon this Occafion my most Humble Thanks to that Excellent Good Lord, the Right Honourable the Lord Digby, who, pon 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 us, and had Decreed us to be uncapable of Receiving, or being admitted to, any Ecclefiaftical Dignity, Benefice or Promotion Such à Seafonable and Generous Act of Friendship ought never to be forgotten, though it had been fingle, But his Lordship has been pleafed ever fince to receive me with fuch diftinguifbing Kindness, as I can never fufficiently Acknowledge.

As for the Difcourfes on the Refurrection, the Groundwork of them

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was all One Sermon, preach'd before the University of Oxford on EafterTuesday, An. 1686; which was afterwards enlarg'd into Four Difcourfes at Lincolns-Inn; with a particular Eye to the Socinians, (fo far as their Doctrine is concern'd in that Article of the Refurrection,) for Reafons which I need not at this DiStance of Time trouble the Reader withal.

But upon the mention of LincolnsInn, (fince 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 fuch, that if my Health would have permitted, I ought in Gratitude never to bave left them.

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As for the Quotations made use of in any of the following Difcourfes, Some Few, I fee, 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 fufficiently Careful in the Ufe I made of them; and therefore I have reason to hope that I made no Miftakes in Quotations, nor any Mifconftructions or Mifapplications of Any of them.

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