PROFESSOR of RHETORIC and BELLES LETTRES IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. V. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR, By JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D. LONDON: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street; For T. CADELL jun. and W. DAVIES, in the Strand; MDCCCI. LIBRARY 9.C.D. LIBRARY TO THE REAder. AFTER 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 Publick. To this publication of another Volume, my present situation 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 Sermons, most of which had been compofed a great many years ago, with a view to observe how far they agreed in the ftrain of thought with those which I had written 1 |