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ON THE

FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:

VIZ.

1. Virtue Glorious, Vice Infamous. XIII. The Duty of loving our Ene-

II. The Servitude of Sin.

mies.

III. Connection between Duty and XIV, Future Rewards proportionable

Happiness.

to present Improvements.

IV. Diversity of Opinion no just Cause xv. Occafioned by a Public Collec-

of Discord.

tion for the Propagation of the Gora

V. Haman and Mordecai.

pel, &c.

VI. Reason and Religion.

XVI. The Folly and Wretchedness of

VII, On Education.

an Atheistic Inclination.

VIII.

Spiritual Worship.

XVII. God's Government of the

IX. The Vanity and Vexation of ir- World a sure and most joyful Trutho

regular Defires.

XVIII. The Dignities and Distince

X. The Wisdom of regarding Counsel,

tions of Human Nature.

and the Folly of rejecting it.

XIX. Natural and Moral Proofs of a

XI. The Causes and Consequences of

Future State.

intellectual Darkness.

XX, Natural and Moral Proofs of a

XII. The Causes and Consequences Future State.

of intellectual Darkness.

By JOHN BALGUY, M. A.
Late Vicar of North-Allerton, in the County of YORK, and

Prebendary of SARUM.

To His GRACE

The Most REVEREND

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0 M M AS

By Divine Providence

Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,

Primate and Metropolitan of all England.

MY LORD HAVING fome time ago defired and ob

tained permission to infcribe this Volume to your Grace, I am not willing, and indeed ought not, to suppose it cancelled by the intervening change of your situation. On the contrary, I conceive that an indulgence granted by the late Primate of York is in no danger of being revoked by the now Primate of Canterbury. My reason is, a firm affurance, my Lord, that no outward change can affect the disposition of your mind: that no elevation, no distinction, will ever break

into your benevolence, or obstruct the current. of your favour. I cannot forbear adding, though fuperfluous on the present occafion, that your humanity and your dignity are well fuited, and nobly matched; that the goodness

of your heart crowns all your honours, and fully corresponds to the sublimity of your station.

I presume not, my Lords to congratulate either church or state on your Grace's promotion to the fupreme fee; which will often be done hereafter by fitter hands: neither shall I fwell this epistle with the lofs fuftained by your former province, and the general concern thereby occafioned. Such points fall not within the compass of my prefent privilege ; which extends no farther than to the honour of dedicating a book to my Diocesan Archbishop: and I entreat your Grace to cons sider the following Address in this light. But a new plea offering itself, which I could not foresee, I beg I may be allowed to insert it here.

-Your translation, my Lord, makes such an attempt much more feasonable than I apprehended : I mean in respect of your northern friends ; by whom memorials of all kinds will naturally be coveted on this occafion. Though the original be deeply graven on their minds, so deeply as never to be ef

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