THE

WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BRAGGE, B. D.

VICAR OF HITCHIN IN HERTFORDSHIRE,

AND

PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN.

A NEW EDITION, IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

ON THE PARABLES OF OUR LORD.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXXXIII.

Clar. Press

1. a. 28.

ΤΟ

THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

THOMAS,

LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE,

To permit me once more to present you with this little book, and to beg that you would receive it with the same goodness at Lambeth that you were pleased to do at Buckden.f.:.

It is very much owing to the countenance it had from your Grace, that it met with so favourable a reception at first, as to be encouraged to appear again abroad; and which emboldens me to renew the dedication of it to your Grace; though otherwise, I am sensible I should have presumed too far, to desire so great a patronage for a thing so inconsiderable.

May God Almighty long continue your Grace a blessing to this Church; and may your Clergy know