Engraved by J. Heath from an original Painting by the Rev. I. (live.

GEORGE HORNE, D.D.

Late Lord Brishop of Norwich)

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Publish'd Nov. 15. 1793, by G.G.& J. Robinson, Paternoster Row.

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ON

SEVERAL SUBJECTS

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AND

OCCASIONS.

BY GEORGE HORNE, D. D.

LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH,

AND

PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

LIBRARY

NEWYORK.

OXFORD:

PRINTED FOR J. COOKE;

AND G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, T. CADELL, AND

F. AND C. RIVINGTON, LONDON.

M.DCC.XCIII.

HAVI

AVING been prevented, for a time, by the discharge of a laborious, but highly honourable office, from performing the more immediate duties of my profession, I was yet defirous, that I might not seem to lose the clergyman in the magiftrate, of still continuing to do fomething towards promoting the great end and purpose of life. And though the frequent returns of business gave little hopes of compofing fresh discourses, it's intervals, I thought, might suffice to digeft and publish fome, which had been already composed.

This form of publication is generally supposed less advantageous, at present, than any other. But it may be questioned, whether the supposition does justice to the age, when we confider only the respect which

has fo recently been paid to the fermons of the

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the learned and elegant Dr. BLAIR. And greater respect cannot be paid them, than they deferve.

The multitude of old fermons affords no argument against the publication of new ones; fince new ones will be read, when old ones are neglected; and almost all mankind are, in this respect, Athenians.

Besides, there is a taste in moral and religious, as well as in other compositions, which varies in different ages, and may very lawfully and innocently be indulged. Thousands received instruction and confolation formerly from fermons, which would not now be endured. The preachers of them served their generation, and are blefsed for evermore. But because provision was made for the wants of the last century in one way, there is no reason why it should not be made for the wants of this, in another. The next will behold a fet of writers

of