DISCOURSE

OF THE

PASTORAL CARE.

.6.1692)

WRITTEN

BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, .
GILBERT BURNET, D.D.

BISHOP OF SARUM.
Author of the Life of Judge Hale, and the Life and Death

of the Earl of Rochester, &c.

INCI UDING THE NEW PREFACE FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR W. BAYNES, 54, PATERNOSTER-ROW,

BY RANSON PLANT, SPILSBY.

141 92282

I T is above twenty years since this book was first pube lished by me, and now that those who have a concern in it think fit to reprint it, I thought it became me to review it carefully to see if there was cause given to alter any part of it, or to add any thing to it.

I wrote it when I was newly put into the post in which by the providence of God I still ám. So that a longer course of experience and observation may have brought more things to my view than I could at that time reflect on.

I own this is my favourite book : which, if it has raised