TO THE RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES JAMES, LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER. MY LORD, IN commending the following pages to your protection,. I am gratified by the opportunity of offering this tribute to your merits as a Scholar and Divine, and of expressing my congratulations upon that elevation of rank, which they are so eminently calculated to illustrate and adorn. Should these Discourses be thought to promote in any degree the diffusion of religious feelings, I shall be proud that they justify your Lordship's permission to prefix |
