On the Joy, and the Bitterness of the PROVERBS, xiv. 10. The heart knoweth On the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Preached at the Celebration of the Sacrament of the MATTHEW, Xxvi. 29. But I fay unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I 5 2 PETER, iii. 10. But the day of the Page 413 ΤΟ THE QUE E N. MADAM, WHE HEN the Firft Volume of these Sermons was published, I did not prefume to requeft the liberty of prefixing to them a Name fo illuftrious. Encouraged by the favourable manner in which the Public has received Two Volumes, I now humbly beg leave, on the publication of a Third, to lay them all before your MAJESTY. Had I been in doubt to whom they could be presented with the greatest propriety, the public voice would inftantly have directed me to the Perfon to whom I have now the honour of addreffing myself. Difcourfes intended to promote religion and virtue can be infcribed to none more fuitably than to One who, in the highest station of life, has ever fupported the cause of religion, by her confpicuous regard for it; who has advanced the interefts of virtue, by her diftinguished example; and who, by a happy union of the amiable with the estimable qualities, has commanded |