TRANSLATED BY REV. ABEL FLINT, HARTFORD PRINTED BY LINCOLN AND GLEASON. District of Connecticut, ss. Be it remembered, that on the third day of August in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, LINCOLN & GLEASON of the said District, Printers in Co. have deposited in this Office the title of a Book the right whereof they claim as Proprietors in the words following, viz. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTER, LENOX AND L. S. 46 "Sermons of John Baptist Massillon, and Lewis Bourdaloue, "two celebrated French preachers. Also, a Spiritual Paraphrase 46 of some of the Psalms, in the form of Devout Meditations and "Prayers. By J. B. Massillon, Translated by Rev. ABEL FLINT, Pastor of a Church in Hartford." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned." CHARLES DENISON. Clerk of the District of Connecticut. Connecticut ss. Office of District Clerk. The foregoing is a true Copy of Record. Attest, CH. DENISON, Clerk. PREFACE. JOHN B. Massillon and Lewis Bourdaloue were two celebrated French preachers, who flourished the one in the beginning of the last, and the other at the close of the preceding century. Doctor Blair, in his Lectures on Elocution, speaks of them as follows: "Among the French Roman Ca"tholic divines, the two most distinguished "are Bourdaloue and Massillon. It is a "subject of dispute among the French crit❝ics, to which of these the preference is due, “and each of them have their several par"tizans. To Bourdaloue, they attribute "-more solidity and close reasoning; to Mas"sillon, a more pleasing and engaging man66 ner. Bourdaloue inculcates his doctrines "with much zeal, piety, and earnestness. "Massillon has more grace, more senti"ment, and in my opinion, every way more genius. He discovers much knowledge "both of the world and of the human heart; "he is pathetic and persuasive; and upon "the whole, is perhaps, the most eloquent "writer of sermons which modern times "have produced." The Translator, from the account given of these preachers by Doctor Blair, and others |