AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE STUDY OF THE

PROPHECIES

CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH;

AND, IN PARTICULAR,

CONCERNING THE CHURCH OF PAPAL ROME:

IN TWELVE SERMONS,

PREACHED IN LINCOLN'S-INN-CHAPEL,

AT THE LECTURE OF

THE RIGHT REV. WILLIAM WARBURTON,

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

Ita, si potuero, stylo moderabor meo, ut nec ea, quæ supersint, dicam, nec ea, quæ satis sint, prætermittam.

Augustin. C. D. 1. xvii, c. 1.

EXTRACT

FROM THE

DEED OF TRUST

FOR FOUNDING THIS LECTURE.

AN Indenture, bearing date July 21, 1768,

sets forth, "That the right reverend WILLIAM "Lord Bishop of Gloucester has transferred the "sum of 500l. Bank four per cent. annuities "consolidated, to the right honourable WIL

LIAM LORD MANSFIELD, Lord Chief Justice "of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, the

right honourable SIR JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT, "Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of

"Common Pleas, and the honourable CHARLES