TO THE

KING.

SIR;

NEW YORK
PUBLIC

WHEN I received the permiffion to inscribe these Sermons to Your Majefty, I was not prefumptuous enough to confider it as an honour conferred upon myself.

I received it only as a mark of Your Majefty's condefcending regard

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to the memory of my Grandfather, whom You had honoured by confidering as one of Your oldeft, and most faithful fervants; and I faw in it an additional proof of that goodness, which uniformly leads Your Majefty to retain a gracious recollection of the dutiful attachment of your fubjects.

I am well aware, S that the Sermons which I now prefume to lay at Your Majefty's feet have but little claim to Your notice and protection, from merit which they may poffefs in themselves.

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But when I recollect how zealously Your Majefty has at all times fupported the Established Church, I am

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encouraged humbly to hope, that You will view them with indulgence as a feeble, but a fincere effort, in defence of the Unity of that Church.

MEA AOKK