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AND

DISCOURSES

ON SEVERAL

SUBJECTS

AND

OCCASION S.

BY

FRANCIS ATTERBURY, D. D.

Late Lord Bishop of ROCHESTER,
and Dean of WESTMINSTER.

IN FOUR VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

The EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDO N,

Printed for L. DAVIS and C. REYMERS, J. RIVINGTON,
W. JOHNSTON, R. BALDWIN, S. CROWDER,
B. LAW, T. CASLON, and E. JOHNSON.

MDCCLXVI.

ག་བུའི་

BRITISH

IBRARY

RB23 a. 8399

Right Reverend Father in GOD,

JONATHAN,

By Divine Permiffion,

Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER,

AND

Prelate of the Moft Noble Order of the GARTER.

May it please Your Lordship,

T mony

O accept this public Teftimony of Gratitude, from a Man who ftands indebted to Your LORDSHIP for many Favours, great in themselves, but made much greater by Your free and generous Manner of conferring them. For they were not the Effects of Importunity, or the juft Rewards of Domestic Service; they fprang not

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from Dependence, or Acquaintance; being bestowed on One, who was (at the firft) little known to your Lordship, otherwise than by his honeft Endeavours to retrieve thofe Synodical Rights of the Clergy, whereof You, my LORD, have been all along, to your great Honour, the avowed Patron and Defender.

I mention not this Inftance of Your LORDSHIP's Goodness to Me, with any View of diftinguishing myfelf from Others. For You have done nothing in My Cafe, but what You have frequently practifed fince the Time that Divine Providence, for the Good of this Church, raised You to the Epifcopal Dignity; Nothing, but what hath been fucceffively acknowledged by all Those who have prefixed your Right Reverend Name to their Labours, from the Learned and Venerable

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