Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the…

These Sermons were preached by the Reverend Author of them a little while before his Entrance into •••st. I cannot learn that the oc•••ions of them were extraordinary, ⟨image 3⟩or that he had any design in them beyond that which accompanied the ordinary course of his Ministry; much less a purpose to publish them, a• conceiving them either more useful, or more needful, or more laboured than the rest of his constant and frequent Exercises in the same kind. Neither did he leave any such Copy of them as might be helpful towards such an end. But they were taken from his mouth by the diligence of a Dexterous Hand, who at first designed nothing bu• his own use and edification by them; until observing how soon after th• preaching of them, God was please• to call him off from his Painful Labour in his Vineyard, and so t• cut short all expectations of farther administrations of Truth and Grace by the Trust and Dispensation committed unto him; he resolved t make them public, for the good an benefits of others. And as herein