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

VOL. V.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED

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

BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D.

DUBLIN:

Printed by PAT. WOGAN, No. 23, OLD-BRIDGE.

1801..

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TO THE READER.

AFTER the
FTER the very favourable reception
which the Four former Volumes of

my Sermons have met with, both at home
and abroad, I had refolved not to presume
on offering any more to the Public. To
this publication of another Volume, my
prefent fituation
gave rife. Being now, by
the infirmity of very advanced age, laid
afide from all the labours of the pulpit,
and poffeffing, of course, more retirement
and leisure than formerly, it occurred to
me, fometimes, to look back into the Ser-
mons, most of which had been compofed
à great many years ago, with a view to
observe how far they agreed in the strain
of thought with those which I had writen
at a later period. In reviewing them,
paffages fometimes appeared which I ima-
gined might be serviceable, either for ad-
monition or confolation to various claffes
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