The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in…The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in…

Carnal Contention, under this most specious Pretence, as being conversant about Spiritual or Religious Concernments, is the thing Animadverted on (tho' in gentler instances, as later occasions did require) in the following Sermons. It was little imagined when they were delivered from the Pulpit, they should ever have been made more public.

Carnal Contention, under this most specious Pretence, as being conversant about Spiritual or Religious Concernments, is the thing Animadverted on (tho' in gentler instances, as later occasions did require) in the following Sermons. It was little imagin'd when they were delivered from the Pulpit, they should ever have been made more publick.

I have in this Publication of them partly yielded to the Opinion of divers, who judged they might possibly be useful to more than those who heard them, and to ⟨p. xxxiii⟩them farther upon review. But have more complied with a sort of Necessity laid upon me, by being told if they were not published by me, the thing would be done (as it could) from broken, mistaken, Notes, without me. My own Memorials and Preparations were indeed imperfect enough, as it cannot but be in the Case of one, so often in the Week, engaged in such Work.

I have in this Publication of them partly yielded to the Opinion of divers, who judg'd they might possibly be useful to more than those who heard them, and to ⟨p. xxxiii⟩them farther upon review. But have more comply'd with a sort of Necessity laid upon me, by being told if they were not published by me, the thing would be done (as it could) from broken, mistaken, Notes, without me. My own Memorials and Preparations were indeed imperfect enough, as it cannot but be in the Case of one, so often in the Week, engag'd in such Work.