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HEREAS Our Trusty and Well-beloved
Richard Smith, of our City of London, Book-

seller, has humbly represented unto Us,
that he has, with great Labour, and Expence, pre-
pared for the Press, a new Edition of the Sermons,
and other Works, written in English by the Right
Reverend Father in God, Dr. William Beveridge, Bi-
shop of St. Afaph, deceased; and has therefore hum-
bly besought Us to grant him our Royal Privilege
and License, for the sole Printing and Publishing
thereof, for the Term of Fourteen Years: We being
willing to give all due Encouragement to Works of
this Nature, tending to the Advancement of Piety
and Learning, are gracioufly pleased to condescend
to his Request: And do therefore, by these Presents,
grant to him the faid Richard Smith, his Executors,
Adminiftrators and Assigns, Our Royal License for
the sole Printing and Publishing the English Works of
the said late Bishop of St. Afaph, for the Term of
Fourteen Years, from the Date hereof; strictly for-
bidding all Our Subjects, within our Kingdoms and
Dominions, to Reprint the same, either in whole,
or in part, or to import, buy, vend, utter, or di-
stribute any Copies thereof reprinted beyond Seas,
during the aforesaid Term of Fourteen Years, with-
out the Consent and Approbation of the said Richard
Smith, his Heirs, Executors, and Assigns, under his
or their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as
they will answer the contrary at their Perils. Whereof
the Master, Wardens, and Company of Stationers are
to take notice, that the fame may be entred in their
Register, and that due Obedience be rendred there-
unto. Given at our Court at Kensington, the sth Day
of June, 1708, in the Seventh Year of our Reign.
By Her Majesty's Command,

SUNDERLAND.

THE

PUBLISHER

TO THE

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HE volumes, I am now presenting the World with, are, truly speaking, no other than loofe Papers; and the Author, that great and venerable Prelate, whose Name they bear, does not seem to have design'd them for the Press: And upon this Account it is I have debated for some Time with my self, whether a Publication of them would any ways lessen the Esteem of that Good and Excellent Man; whose Labours, in the Learned Languages as well as our own, have justly gained high Applause, and done fo much good in the World already. Upon consulting then with several Eminent Divines, and other Pious and Learned Gentlemen, my very good Friends, they did, after Ferufal, conceive of them as just and choice Fragments, containing a Summary of the Christian Doctrine; the several Topicks being digested in a most excelient Method, confirm'd from several Parallel Places of Scripture; and very often illustrated, in the like concise manner, from the Testimonies of Fathers, Councils, &c. And upon these Confiderations, I perswade my self, what I offer will be in some measure serviceable to all in general that apply themselves to the Study of the Holy Scriptures, especially the Clergy, who will

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here meet with so sure a Guide, and have so true a Foundation laid for the Superstructure they shall think fit to raise upon it. And I have been still more inclined to think they may serve these good Ends, after those many Letters I have received from feveral Parts of this Kingdom, as well as from abroad, full of earnest Sollicitations to oblige the World with the Remains of that Person, whose profound Learning, exemplary Piety, and fingular Humility has fomuch endear'd bis Memory to the whole Chriftian World; and more especially to those that have a just sense of Religion on their Minds.

A CATALOGUE of the Greek, Latin, and English Works of the Right Reverend Father in God William Beveridge, D. D. late Lord Bishop of St. Afaph.

E Linguarum Orientalium præfertim Hebraica, Chaldaica, Syriace, Arabica & Samaritana, cum Grammatica Syriaca tribus libris tradita, per G. Beveridgium. 8vo. Londini 1658.

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N. B. This was writ when the Author was about Eighteen years of Age. and Published when he was Twenty.

Inftitutionum Chronologicarum Libri duo: una cum totidem Arithmetices Chronologica Libellis. Per. G. Beveridgium, M. A. Londini 1699.

ΣΥΝΟΔΙΚΟON Sive Pandectæ canonum, S. S. Apoftolorum & conciliorum ab Ecclefiæ Græca receptorum, &c. 2 Tomes, Fol. per Guil. Beveridgium. Oxon, 1672.

Codex canonum Ecclesia Primitiæ Vindicatus ac Illuftratus, authore G. Beveridgio, Londini 1678.

Private Thoughts upon Religion, digefted into twelve Articles, with PraAical Resolutions form'd thereupon. Written in his younger Years for the tettling of his Principles and Conduct of his Life. The fifth Edition 12me. Price 1s. 2 d. in Sheep, and Is. 6 d. Calf. The 8vo. Price 35. 65.

N. B. This Book was writ when the Author was about Three or Four and Twenty Years old.

The Great Neceffity and Advantage of publick Prayer, and frequent Communion, designed to revive Primitive Piety; with Meditations, Ejaculations and Prayers, before, at, and after the Sacrament, the third Edit. Price 3 sa Svo. and I s. 6d. in 12me.

Sermons on several Occasions in Ten Volumes. Price 5s. each Volume. The Church-Catechism explained, for the Use of the Diocese of St Afapb. Frice ts. bound in Sheep, and I s. 4 d. in Calf.

All the English Works Printed for R. Smith, at his Warchonfe in Exeter Chang in the Strand.

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