PREACHED ON HARRIS HALL 570 SEVERAL OCCASIONS. By the Right Reverend Father in God, LATE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE. OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCXCVII. 4.28-47 TO THE READ E R. THESE Sermons, preached on important Occafions, were separately published by their excellent Author, the late Bishop of London, Dr. THOMAS SHERLOCK. The judicious Reader will difcover in them the fame Energy of Sentiment and Purity of Diction, the fame pious Intention to promote Virtue and true Religion, the fame pathetic and convincing Addrefs A 3 drefs to the Heart, which fo emi nently distinguish the rest of this Prelate's Difcourfes. Dr. SHERLOCK no fooner appeared in the great World, than he gave evident Proofs of the Extent of his Learning and the Superiority of his Genius. It has been Matter of Doubt with fome good Judges of Style, whether the first of these Sermons, which he preached above feventy Years fince, when a young Man, has been excelled, either in Language or Matter, by any that he delivered from the Pulpit afterwards. There is not, perhaps, a more difficult Tafk, than the doing Juf |