BY

JEAN-BAPTISTE MASSILLON,

BISHOP OF CLERMONT.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

SELECTED AND TRANSLATED

c.e.

BY WILLIAM DICKSON;

AND

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION,

ΤΟ

HER GRACE

THE DUTCHESS OF BUCCLEUGH.

COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME 1.

BROOKLYN:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS S. ARDEN, No. 186, PEARL-STREET, NEW-YORK

T. KIRK, PRINTER.

1803.

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TO HER GRACE

THE DUTCHESS OF BUCCLEUGH.

MADAM,

IN confequence of your permitting me to addrefs my Tranflation of the following Sermons to your GRACE, the general approbation will be fecured to at least one part of my Publication.

It is not your rank in the world, Madam, elevated as it is, which renders your protection of any part of the amiable MASSILLON's Works fo eminently proper ; it is your rank in the hearts of the good and virtuous, fuch as he was, who will unanimously acknowledge the propriety of the Dedication.

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