tice to a great and exalted Character. We shall not, therefore, prefume to draw a Portrait of Bishop SHERLOCK; but will just observe, that his Views, both in civil and religious Matters, were always large and comprehenfive, not confined to the narrow Systems of particular Parties, nor fubjected to the fluctuating Principles of powerful and interested Men: that he was a moft ftrenuous and able Defender of the great Truths of our holy Religion : that he made it his conftant Practice to inculcate the chriftian and focial Virtues; to enforce a due and ready Submiffion to the Laws; to inspire Prince and People with a Sense of their refpective Duties, and to discountenance all tempo rary Changes and hasty Innovations The Re-publication of these Dif- courses has been fo long and ear- neftly wifhed for, that we cannot doubt of their Acceptance with the Preached before the Queen at St. James's, Jan. 31, 1704, being the Anniversary thefe little Ones, a Cup of cold Water only, in the Name of a Difciple, verily, I fay Preached before the Sons of the Clergy at And when his Difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command Fire to come down from Hea- ven, and confume them, even as Elias did? But he turned and rebuked them, and faid, Preached before the Lord Mayor at St. and he shall be as the Light of the Morn- ing, when the Sun rifeth, even a Morning without Clouds; as the tender Grafs fpring- ing out of the Earth, by clear fhining after Preached before the House of Commons at St. Margaret's, Westminster, March 8, For be fuppofed his Brethren would have un- derstood bow that God by his Hand would deliver them; but they understood not. 105 Preached at the Temple Church, Nov. 20, |