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THE WORKS OF RICHARD HURD, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER. VOL. V.
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Printed by J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-Street, London. iii
THE WORKS OF RICHARD HURD, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND. 1811.
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THEOLOGICAL WORKS. VOL. I. vi vii
TWELVE SERMONS INTRODUCTORY TO THE STUDY OF THE PROPHECIES.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH; AND, IN PARTICULAR, CONCERNING THE CHURCH OF PAPAL ROME: IN TWELVE SERMONS, PREACHED IN LINCOLN’S-INN-CHAPEL, AT THE LECTURE OF THE RIGHT REV. WILLIAM WARBURTON, LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.
Ita, si potuero, stylo moderabor meo, ut nec ea, quæ supersint,dicam, nec ea, quæ satis sint, prætermittam. Augustin. C. D. l. xvii. c. 1.x xi
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM, LORD MANSFIELD, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND, AND TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT, Knt. LATE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS, TRUSTEES FOR THIS LECTURE, THE FOLLOWING SERMONS ARE MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, R. HURD.
LINCOLN’S-INN, MARCH 2, 1772.xii xiii
EXTRACT FROM THE DEED OF TRUST FOR FOUNDING THIS LECTURE.
An Indenture, bearing date July 21, 1768,sets forth, “That the right reverend WilliamLord Bishop of Gloucester has transferred thesum of 500l. Bank four per cent. annuitiesconsolidated, to the right honourable WilliamLord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justiceof his Majest