ADVERTISEMENT.

F the following Sermons the eight first,

OF

which were preached at the BamptonLecture, contain a view of our Religion with regard to its fubftance, history, evidences, and the objections by which it is opposed; the two next deduce from Scripture the doctrine of the Trinity; the eleventh is defigned to point out the general conduct which is required of us, in oppofition to an unwarrantable dependence upon the divine mercy; and the laft teaches us how to commence our Christian practice most properly and most advantageously with the worship of God.

In thefe Sermons the author trufts he has stated concisely and determinately the information,

mation, which is best calculated to excite a belief in the doctrines of Christianity, as it is profeffed in our truly Apoftolical Church; and 'to establish the practice of it upon the moft durable foundation: at least he can affert with confidence, that he has endeavoured faithfully to represent in them what he himself feels to be the ground-work and fupport of his own Religion.

What must follow from a rejection of Revelation and a total dependence upon human philofophy, the Almighty has been pleased to permit us to learn with certainty from the dreadful ftate, to which we have feen a neighbouring and powerful nation in a fhort time reduced. What are the consequences even of a partial adoption of fuch principles, the want, which we experience in our own conduct, of religious motives and religious trust too often unhappily evinces.

May God grant that these principles and thefe confequences may not increase among us! May a fober and regular attention to the

doctrines and duties of Chriftianity, which are univerfally calculated to produce in us habits of contentment and of exertion in our different stations, and an animating confidence in that all-perfect Being who has placed us in them, fecure for us the enjoyment of these invaluable attainments here, and that happiness which is to be their everlasting recompence hereafter!