BY WILLIAM HAWKINS, M. A.
PREBENDARY OF WELLS, VICAR OF WHITCHURCH, DORSET,
AND LATE FELLOW OF PEMBROKE-COLLEGE, OXFORD,

O X FORD:

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS,

AND SOLD BY D. PRINCE AND J. COOKE, OXFORD ;

AND J. F. AND C. RIVINGTON, LONDON,

MDCC LXXXVII.

HIS GRACE

THE

A RCHBISHOP

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CAN T E R BUR Y.

MY LORD
AVING had the honour of

being appointed preacher of the Bampton Lectures for the current year, by the Heads of Colleges in Oxford, I have the happiness to introduce them to the Public with the additional great advantage of your Grace's protection; an advantage the more considerable, as it derives as much from the character, as the rank of my patron.

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