AN

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

STUDY OF THE PROPHECIES

CONCERNING

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, AND, IN PARTICULAR, CONCERNING

THE CHURCH OF PAPAL ROME :

IN TWELVE SERMONS,

PREACHED IN LINCOLN'S-INN CHAPEL, AT THE LECTURE

OF THE

RIGHT REV. WILLIAM WARBURTON,

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

BY RICHARD HURD, D.D.

PREACHER TO THE HONORABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

Ita, si potuero, stylo moderabor meo, ut nec ea, quæ supersint, dicam; nec ea,

quæ satis sint, prætermittam. Augustin. C. D. I. xvii. c. 1.

FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY FARRAND, MALLORY, AND CO.

SUFFOLK BUILDINGS.
Samuel T. Armstrong, Printer, Charlestown.

.........

1809.

405,5 Hurd

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM, Lord MANSFIELD,

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND,

AND TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

Sir John EARDLY WILMOT, Knt.

LATE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS,

TRUSTEES FOR THIS LECTURE,

THE FOLLOWING SERMONS

ARE MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR,

R. HURD.

LINCOLN'S-INN,
MARCH 2, 1772.