BY

1718-1800
HUGH BLAIR, D.D. F. R. S. E.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH,

AND

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR,

BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D. D..

COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES,

VOL. I.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

- PRINTED FOR I, WALKER, S. HARRISON, S. WILKINS, C. TAYLOR, C. SMITH AND
CO. J. CHRISTIE, I. HARRIS, W. BAYNES AND SON, R. BAYNES, G. offor, J.
OFFOR, R. TEMPLEMAN, J. SIOR, W. SELL, T. MASON, W. AKERMAN, H. BROWN,
W. CLARKE, W. Cox, R. WILLIAMS. C. WILSON, J. MURRAY, W. WRIGHT. C.
WHITE, W. ROGERS, S. PALMER, J. PEARSON, S. NEELY, R. MORRISON AND
CO. AND J. RICHARDSON.

vard College Library

Aug. 28, 1917

Git of

.LL. Bradford

TO THE

QUEEN.

MADAM,

WHEN the First Volume of these Sermons was published, I did not presume to request the liberty of prefixing to them a name so illustrious. Encouraged by the favourable manner in which the Public has received Two Volumes, I now humbly beg leave, on the publication of a Third, to lay them all before Your MAJESTY.

Had I been in doubt to whom they could be presented with the greatest propriety, the public voice would instantly have directed me to the Person to whom I have now the honour of addressing myself. Discourses intended to promote religion and virtue can be inscribed to none more suitably than to One who, in the highest station of life, has ever supported the cause of religion by her conspicious regard

* Dr. Blair's Sermons were originally published in Five Volumes; and this Dedication was prefixed to the Third Volume of that Series, containing Sermons XXXI. to L. in this Edition.

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