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SERMON

Preach'd before the University

OF

OXFORD

At St. PETERS Church in the Eaft
on Mid-Lent Sunday March
29. 1685.

BY

John Norris M. A. and Fellow of All-Souls
College in OXFORD.

Seeft thou a man wife in his own Conceit? There is
more hopes of a Fool than of Him. Prov. 26. 12.

OXFORD,

Printed by Leonard Lichfield, for Thomas
Fickus Bookfeller. 168 5.

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BX 5133 18862

54

Dunning

Brown 12.20-42

46617

To the Reverend

Dr. HENRY MORE of
Chrift's College in CAMBRIDGE.

Reverend SIR,

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Either the Ambition of honouring this
Difcourfe with

your

Great Name, nor the Vanity of thinking this flender Oblation a fufficient difcharge from thofe ftrong Obligations whereby I ftand endebted to you, were the Motives which determin'd my Choice in this Dedication. I intend-only hereby to expreß my great Veneration for your Worth, and my Gratitude for that Particular share which pleas'd to vouchsafe me in your Favour.

you

have been

As for the Difcourfe which now beggs your acceptance and protection, I am not unfenfible that much of it lies out of the common road of thinking, and may upon that Score incur the Cenfure of thofe narrow-fpirited Theorists, who confine their Speculations to the limits of Antiquity, resign up the

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