Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

The Reverend Prelate, the Author of them, was a Person of great Natural Parts, and Excellent Learning, as well as of great Piety and Charity: One that adorned the Church of England, whereof he was an Eminent Pillar, ruling well in the Church of God, and therefore deserved double Honour, as the Apostle speaks: And doubtless, his Reward is now great in Heaven, ⟨image 3⟩with his Lord and Master, whose Service here on Earth was accounted by him as his highest Honour, and that which he professed himself most ambitious of.

He was a Person of great Modesty and Humility; having very mean and low Thoughts of himself, and his own Abilities; which was the Reason why the World had so little Knowledge of him from the Press, having published nothing ^*but what he was constrained to, either by the ⟨image 4⟩restless. Importunity of Friends, or the Commands of those that some Time were his Superiors.

1. *See his Vanity of the World, and A Funeral Sermon, &c. Octavo.

But the Intendment of this Epistle being not to give the World an Account of the Life of this Excellent Person, whose Praise is deservedly in the Church of God, I forbear to add any thing farther concerning him, hoping it will shortly be done by a more worthy Pen.