CONCERNING THE DIVINITY of our Blessed SAVIOUR.-I. 109 152 166 184 THE PRESENCE OF THE MESSIAS THE GLORY OF THE SECOND THE GENERAL AND EFFECTUAL PUBLICATION OF THE GOSPEL 206 223 BY THE APOSTLES THE NATURE, OFFICE, AND EMPLOYMENT OF GOOD ANGELS. 239 CHRISTIANITY DOTH NOT DESTROY, BUT PERFECT, the Law CHRISTIANITY DOTH NOT DESTROY, BUT PERFECT, the Law 271 or MOSES.-II. . 284 THE SINS OF MEN NOT CHARGEABLE UPON GOD, BUT UPON ГАСЕ 296 PREFACE. TILLOTSON'S Sermons, as originally published by Barker in 1703. number two hundred and fifty-four. They wero not given to the public exactly as they had been preached. Sometimes two ordinary sermons were put into one, or three into two. Some repetitions were left out, and portions previously printed were abbreviated. But the words aud sense were not altered. The Editor of the present volume has undertaken to make a selection from the voluminous sermons issued in the octavo volumes in the year above mentioned. It was not a very easy task to choose from so many sermons only such as may prove of interest at the present time. The Editor, however, has endeavoured to adapt the selected sermons to modern phases of thought. The decision as to publishing any one of the following sermons is based upon the interest which the subject-matter has evoked, either from being discussed in modern criticism, or from being connected with some form of Christian doctrino more or less debated in the present day. Locke, in alluding to Tillotson, says, that "The sermons of Archbishop Tillotson are master-pieces." The merit is due to Tillotson of restoring both purity of language and force of reasoning which had been almost entirely lost before his time. The preaching up to the period of the Restoration was formed on a very bad model. It was undignified in style, puerile in rhetoric, and embarrassed by an affectation. of wit. The court preachers in King James the First's time would now be unbearable. The pulpit had degenerated. True cloquence did not exist. Pedantry and pomp of words characterised the sermons of the period. The sentences were long and involved. Needless and superfluous enlargements rendered it almost, if not |