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An Attempt to illuftrate thofe Articles of the
Church of England, which the Calvinifts
improperly confider as Calviniftical,

IN

EIGHT SERMONS

PREACHED BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN THE YEAR MDCCCIV,

AT

THE LECTURE

FOUNDED BY J. BAMPTON, M. A.

CANON OF SALISBURY.

BY

RICHARD LAURENCE, LL. D.

OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOR THE AUTHOR;

AND SOLD BY MESSRS. HANWELL AND PARKER; AND BY
MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND

R. FAULDER, new bond STREET, LONDON.

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PREFACE.

THE mode of illuftration adopted in these Lectures, although it has not been wholly difregarded, has nevertheless been but partially purfued, by those, who have gone be

fore upon the fame subject. Much has been written, and fatisfactorily written, to prove, that the Predeftinarian fyftem of Calvin is totally inconfiftent with the doctrine of our Articles; that it is equally irreconcileable with our Liturgy and Homilies; and that the private fentiments of our Reformers were likewife inimical to it. But complete in all points as fuch evidence may appear, (the force of which its opponents have been unable to invalidate,) the Author still conceived, that an elucidation of another kind was wanting; that the weight of teftimony might be augmented by an attempt to trace the Articles, ufually controverted on the occafion,

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