W PREFACE. HE Defign of the Editor, in the pre Tent Publication is to collect together all the Pieces and little Tracts printed on different Occafions in the Author's Life-time, and prefent them complete to the Public. The Occafional Sermons and other detached Pieces which compofe the first and second Volumes are wholly reprinted, that they might not be intirely loft, Part of them being already out of Print and others difficult to be met with. But as feveral Copies of the larger Works are remaining in the Hands of the Editor, nothing more feemed neceffary, with regard to thefe, than to divide them into Volumes, by adding a new Title-page to each. Several different Methods of Publication have been thought of, and the prefent one fixed upon, after ་་ after mature Confideration, as the leaft liable to Objection, on Account of any Private Views, and alfo as the most convenient to the Public. By which means all thofe Perfons who already have any Part of the Author's Works, and are defirous to complete their Sets, may not only have any particular Volume they want, but alfo Titlepages to the Whole. For this Reafon a larger Impreffion of the Sermons is printed off, than of the detached Pieces, as they come within the Reach of ordinary Readers, feveral of whom, may perhaps purchase this Volume out of the Regard they had for the Author, especially in the two Counties where he chiefly lived, and was perfonally known and esteemed. There are two Pieces, in particular, which have run through feveral Editions, viz. The Neceffary Knowledge of the Lord's Supper, and A Table of Queftions for examining Children and Young Perfons in the Catechifm. Thefe will likewife be fold Separate, either fingly or by the Hundred, at a very moderate Price, in order to be given away. As As to Pofthumous Works, though the Editor has feveral fuch by him, yet He thought it improper to intermix any of them with Works that bad been printed before; but rather chufes to publish them by themselves, if at all. For every candid Reader will make a Juft Diftinction between Pofthumous Works, and those which an Author himself has committed to the Prefs, for which alone He is answerable to the World. |