A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Were it my Design in this Preface, I might enlarge both in the Praises of the Author, and in the Commendation of the following Discourses; but as the Author sought not the Praises of Men, in doing his Master's Work, when living; so is he now above the Praises of Men, being dead, having, I doubt not, received the Euge of a good and faithful Servant. Let his Works therefore praise him in the Gate.

As for the Sermons, they will speak for themselves unto any indifferent and judicious Reader, the Subject-Matters of ehem being very useful unto all that shall peruse them; and more especially in in some Cases;¹ Ex. gr. When Men are eager and inordinate in their pursuits after this World, as if their Happiness were wrapped up in it; what can be more seasonably pressed upon them, to take ⟨image 5⟩off the edge of their Desires after them, than to present to their most serious thoughts the Consideration of their own Mortality?

As for the Sermons, they will speak for themselves unto any indifferent and judicious Reader, the Subject-Matters of ehem being very useful unto all that shall peruse them; and more especially in in some Cases;¹ Ex. gr. When Men are eager and inordinate in their pursuits after this World, as if their Happiness were wrapt up in it; what can be more seasonably press'd upon them, to take ⟨image 5⟩off the edge of their Desires after them, than to present to their most serious thoughts the Consideration of their own Mortality?

1. 1See the Sermons on Heb. 9.27.