Printed For S. Keble at the Turks Head and R. Gosling at the Mitre and Crown in Flutstreet.

AN

EXPOSITION

OF THE

CREED.

BY

JOHN,

LORD BISHOP

OF

CHESTER.

The Tenth Edition Revised and Corrected.

LONDON:

Printed by W. BoWYER, for S. KEBLE at the Turk's-Head, and R. GOSLING
at the Mitre and Crown against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet.

M DCC XV.

2.

TO THE

Right Worshipful and Well-beloved

THE

PARISHIONERS

OF

St. CLEMENTS

EAST-CHEA P.

Mercy unto you, and Peace and Love be multiplied.

F I should be at any time unmindful of your commands, you might well esteem me unworthy of your conti

nued favours; and there is some reafon to fufpect I have incurred the interpretation of forgetfulness, having been fo backward in the performance of my promises. Some years have passed since I preached unto you upon fuch Texts of Scripture as were on purpose selected in relation to the CREED, and was moved by you to make those meditations publick. But you were pleased then to grant what my inclinations rather led me to, that they might be turned into an Expofition of the Creed it felf; which, partly by the difficulty of the work undertaken, partly by the intervention of fome other employments, hath taken me up thus long, for which I defire your pardon. And yet an happy excufe may be pleaded for delay, meeting with a very great

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