AND FRAGMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC BARROW, D. D. FORMERLY MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE: TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TWO DISSERTATIONS, ON THE DURATION OF FUTURE PUNISHMENTS, NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND EDITED FROM THE MSS. IN THE UNIVERSITY BY THE REV. J. P. LEE, M. A. LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE-STREET. M DCCC XXXIV. PREFACE. Or the following Sermons, the four first, and the two Dissertations at the end of the volume, are now for the first time printed, from manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: the remaining Sermons are from a MS. in the Public Library of the same University. In the Library of Trinity College are preserved fourteen volumes of MSS. assigned to Barrow. They contain most of the Sermons published by Archbishop Tillotson, and are evidently the copies used by the printer. Several of the Sermons, and in particular parts of the Treatise on the Papal Supremacy, are in various states, successively from the first rough draught to the finished copy; and, with numerous pages of extracts from many different Greek and Latin authors, bear most honourable testimony to the diligence and research of their great author. The MS.* from which the four first of the following Sermons are taken is smaller than the others, and written in a very large and peculiar handwriting, differing wholly from that of Barrow. On *Trin. Coll. Library, Class R. x. 28. |