TO THE

MASTER AND FELLOWS

OF

SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

THIS VOLUME,

CONTAINING THE WORKS OF TWO EMINENT DIVINES,

SELECTED FROM THE MANY THAT HAVE ADORNED

ITS ANNALS,

IS DEDICATED BY THE EDITOR,

IN TOKEN OF THE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE WHICH HE FEELS TOWARDS THE PLACE OF HIS ACADEMICAL

EDUCATION.

I. Of the vices incident to an academical life.

HEBREWS, XII. 1.—The sin that doth so easily beset us.

II.-A defence of the subscriptions required in the church of

England.

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1 CORINTHIANS, I. 10.—Now I beseech you, brethren,

by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak

the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you. 14

III.—On the anniversary of the martyrdom of Charles I.

LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH, IV. 13.-For the sins of

her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, they have

shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

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FOURTEEN DISCOURSES PREACHED IN THE COLLEGE

CHAPEL.

IV. The authenticity of the books of the New Testament.

JOHN, XV. 26.-When the Comforter is come, whom I

will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of

Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify
of me.

V. The credit due to the sacred historians.

JOHN, XXI. 24.—This is the disciple, which testifieth of

these things, and wrote these things; and we know that

his testimony is true.

VI. The insufficiency of Hume's objection to the credibility

of miracles.

Acts, xvii. 32.—And when they heard of the resurrec-

tion of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will

hear thee again of this matter.

VII.—On the use of miracles in proving the divine mission of

our Saviour and his apostles.

JOHN, v. 36.—The works that I do, bear witness of me,

that the Father hath sent me.

VIII. Of the evidence arising from the prophecies of the Old

Testament.

MATTHEW, II. 2.—Where is he that is born king of the

Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come

to worship him.

IX.-The same subject continued.

LUKE, XXIV. 25, 26.—Then he said unto them; O fools,

and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have

spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things,

and to enter into his glory?

X.—Of the argument drawn from the swift propagation of the

gospel.

MATTHEW, XIII. 31, 32.—Another parable put he forth

unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain

of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

which indeed is the least of all seeds, but, when it is

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