OF ROBERT SANDERSON, D. D. SOMETIME BISHOP OF LINCOLN, NOW FIRST COLLECTED BY WILLIAM JACOBSON, D. D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. I. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.LIV. . XAPIE KAI EIPHNH, OR A PACIFIC DISCOURSE OF GOD'S A SECOND LETTER, BEING A VIEW OF TWO EMERGENT PREFACE. BISHOP SANDERSON'S Sermons are generally so much better known than any other of his Writings, that it seems natural, in collecting or enumerating his Works, to begin with these. Our first feeling is of regret that from so long a life and so ready and well exercised a pen a larger number of Sermons has not come down to us. And popular preacher as, in the best sense, he eminently was, surprise may well be mingled with our regret. Copies of most of those Discourses, which came eventually to be printed, were known by him to be 'in several men's hands.' And one Discourse, it appears, had even been published surreptitiously. See §. 2 of the Preface of 1655, Vol. ii. p. ii. The date, place, and circumstances of the original production of the several Sermons will, it is hoped, be found in the present Edition as fully and precisely given as existing materials allow. The following Table will show at one view how many of Bp. Sanderson's Sermons we have, and the year in which they were respectively delivered and committed to the press. |