OF ROBERT SANDERSON, D. D. SOMETIME BISHOP OF LINCOLN, NOW FIRST COLLECTED BY WILLIAM JACOBSON, D. D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. III. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.LIV. 5-6-53 MFP Harding 5.6.53 83239 The first three Sermons ad Populum were originally printed together, in 1627, six years after the last of them had been preached, with this Dedication prefixed. To the Right Worshipful and my much honoured Lady, the Lady Mildred Sanderson, Wife to Sir Nicholas Sanderson, Knight and Baronet. GOOD MADAM, It is not so much the kind respect which you have for many years past continually manifested towards me, (although that might justly challenge from me a far more ample acknowledgment,) that hath induced me to present you with these three Sermons, as your unfeigned love to God's Truth and Gospel, together with your religious care, by a holy and virtuous conversation, both to strengthen your own assurances for the hopes of the life to come, and to provoke those that are sprung from you, or live under you, by the strength of your example, to press so much the harder towards the same glorious mark, by the same gracious courses. To the increasing of which love and care, either in you or your's, or in any other into whose hands they may chance to come, if these poor Meditations shall add any furtherance, I shall have the less cause either to blame the importunity of those that have long urged, or to regard the SANDERSON, VOL. III. B |