ADVERTISEMENT. THE Dissertation which stands first in the following pages was evidently written in connexion with the three Discourses on the Faith of the Samaritans, published in the second volume of Bishop HORSLEY'S Sermons; and appears by the form of compellation to have been, like them, originally delivered from the Pulpit. It came into the Editor's hands in loose and unconnected sheets, and these were not arranged and examined by him till long after the publication of the two first volumes of Sermons. After he had examined them, he found them to contain an unfinished Essay, which evidently had never been prepared by the Author for the press. He therefore laid it aside. But having shewn it, during his stay in London in the month of May last, to some literary friends, he was strongly advised to publish it; for though confessedly an incomplete work, yet it was deemed worthy of publication, as displaying the Bishop's thoughts on an important subject. In this opinion he anxiously hopes the literary world in general may be disposed to agree. But if not, let it be remembered, that the blame of publication (if there be any) rests with the Editor not the Author; for it is again repeated, that the Manuscript was not left in that state in which the latter, had he been living, would have published it: Indeed a note found in one of the pages of the Manuscript expressly states, that it was the Author's intention to have revised it. To the Dissertation the Editor has added nine hitherto unpublished Sermons, collected and ar |