ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY JEREMY TAYLOR, D. D.

"

CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO KING CHARLES THE FIRST, AND LATE

LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY WELLS AND LILLY.

SOLD BY A. T. GOODRICH, NEW-YORK-AND M. CAREY, PHILADELPHIA,

1816..

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE AND TRULY NOBLE

RICHARD, LORD VAUGHAN,

EARL OF CARBERY, &c.

I

MY LORD,

HAVE now, by the assistance of God, and the advantages of your many favours, finished a year of sermons; which if, like the first year of our Saviour's preaching, it may be annus acceptabilis, an acceptable year to God, and his afflicted hand-maid, the church of England, a relief to some of her new necessities, and an institution or assistance to any soul; I shall esteem it among those honours and blessings with which God uses to reward those good intentions, which himself first puts into our hearts, and then recompenses upon our heads. My Lord, they were first presented to God in the ministeries of your family for this is a blessing, for which your Lordship is to bless God, that your family is, like Gideon's fleece, irriguous with a dew from heaven, when much of the vicinage is dry; for we have cause to remem

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