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BURNET'S LIVES,

&c.

Published by the same Author.

I. SERMONS on Subjects chiefly Practical; with illustrative Notes, and an Appendix, relating to the Character of the Church of England, as distinguished, both from other Branches of the Reformation, and from the modern Church of Rome. Fourth Edition.

II. SACRED LITERATURE: comprising a Review of the Principles of Composition laid down by the late ROBERT LOWTH, D.D., in his Prælections and Isaiah: and an Application of the Principles so reviewed, to the Illustration of the New Testament. New Edition.

III. PRACTICAL THEOLOGY.

2 vols.

IV. PASTORAL INSTRUCTIONS on the Character and Principles of the Church of England; selected from his former Publications.

Edited by him.

V. THE PROTESTANT KEMPIS; or, PIETY WITHOUT ASCETICISM. VI. PRACTICAL DISCOURSES, by THOMAS TOWNSON, D.D., with a Biographical Memoir.

VII. THE REMAINS OF WILLIAM PHELAN, D.D., with a Biographical Memoir by the Editor. 2 vols. 8vo.

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.

CHARACTERS,

AND

AN ADDRESS TO POSTERITY,

BY

GILBERT BURNET, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF SARUM.

WITH

THE TWO PREFACES TO THE DUBLIN EDITIONS.

One of the late poets feigneth, that, at the end of the thread, or web, of every man's life, there was a little medal, containing the person's name; and that Time waited upon the shears, and, as soon as the thread was cut, caught the medals, and carried them to the river of Lethe; and about the bank, there were many birds flying up and down, that would get the medals, and carry them in their beak a little way, and then, let them fall into the river: only, there were a few swans, which, if they got a name, would carry it to a temple, where it was consecrated. LORD BACON.

EDITED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES,

BY JOHN JEBB, D.D. F.R.S.

BISHOP OF LIMERICK, ARDFERT AND
AGHADOE.

LONDON:

JAMES DUNCAN, 37. PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND JOHN COCHRAN, 108. STRAND.

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