Preach'd before the University of Oxford, Or before the HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLNS-INN. By EDWARD MAYNARD, D D. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for JONAH BOWYER, at the Rofe in THE PREFACE. Here present the Reader with another Volume of Sermons, long fince preach'd before the fame Learned Auditories that the Others were; being thereunto led, not only by Private Friends, but alfo by the Judgment of fome who are, and others who very lately were, very defervedly in the higheft Stations of the Church. It may perhaps be taken Notice of, that I multiply Sermons on the fame Text; and I acknowledge that I have still been very apt so to do: A 2 Not LIOTHEC 1 Not out of any Affectation; but because I always found, that there was scarce any Subject in Divinity which I at any Time chose to treat of, that I thought I could do any tolerable Justice to, in so short a Time as Custom allows us for one fingle Sermon. Variety and conftant Change is, I know, most grateful to Itching Ears, but not most Useful to Serious Hearers or Readers, who ponder Things in their Hearts. Nor can I conceive ; ; any Book divided into several Sections, all relating to the fame general Subject, and carrying on the fame Design. And there is one Thing farther which I must own to the Reader, That fome of the Discourses which I now offer him, as (upon an accidental Delay,) they lay by me all the last Year, under my Eye, ready prepared for the Prefs, have received the Addition of fome New Thoughts; Chiefly fome of the Four First Sermons, which are all upon the Subject of DEATH; as is also a Part of the Laft Sermon. This is a Subject so suitable to my Age, that I could not but indulge my Thoughts a little A 3 Liberty V |