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⁂ Thirty-nine Sermons, by (a late very Celebrated PREACHER) John Cook, A. M. Rector of the United Parishes of St. George the Martyr, and St. Mary Magdalen in Canterbury, and of Mersham in Kent, and one of the Six Preachers of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury: From the Manuscript Copy, prepar’d by himself for the press: (there being several Copies of some of the Sermons abroad in Writing, first granted at the Request of the Countess of Coventry and other persons of Distinction) On the following Heads and Occasions; viz. Of Faith. Happiness. Coming to Christ. Vanity. Righteousness, Temperance, and Judgment to come. Cleanness mistaken. God’s Omniscience. On Prayer. Of Friendship with God. The Enmity of the Devil. Resolution in Faith and Practice. Of Proving and Persevering. The Nature of Cleanness. Naaman’s Cure. Of Vision, Revelation, and Repentance. Of Zeal. The Crown of Glory. The Righteous Man’s Reward. The Wicked Man’s Lot. Blessed are the Meek. Mercy to the Merciful. Purity in Heart. Holding fast the Faith. Godly Fear and Obedience. Covetousness. The Sabbath. Sion preferred. Of Superstition. The Difficulty of Salvation. On St. Peter’s Denial. Upon the Fifth of November; preach’d before the Lower House of Convocation, who requested this Sermon to be Printed.
ADVERTISEMENT.
It has been unexceptionably advanced, that a good Abridgment of the Law is more intelligible than the Statutes at large; so a nice Model is as entertaining as the Original, and a true Specimen as satisfactory as the whole Parcel: This may serve to illustrate the Reasonableness of our present Undertaking, which in the first place is to give Monthly a View of all the Pieces of Wit, Humour, or Intelligence, daily offer’d to the Publick in the News-Papers, (which of late are so multiply’d, as to render it impossible, unless a man makes it a business, to consult them all) and in the next place we shall join therewith some other matters of Use or Amusement that will be communicated to us.
Upon calculating the Number of News-Papers, ’tis found that (besides divers written Accounts) no less than 200 Half-sheets per Month are thrown from the Press only in London, and about as many printed elsewhere in the Three Kingdoms; a considerable Part of which constantly exhibit Essays on various Subjects for Entertainment; and all the rest, occasionally oblige their Readers with matters of Public Concern, communicated to the World by Persons of Capacity thro’ their Means: so that they are become the chief Channels of Amusement and Intelligence. But then being only loose Papers, uncertainly scatter’d about, it often happens, that many things deserving Attention, contained in them, are only seen by Accident, and others not sufficiently publish’d or preserved for universal Benefit and Information.