ACCOUNT OF FORMER EDITIONS OF BISHOP TIOPKINS'S WORKS.

ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT EDITION.

LIFE OF BISHOP HOPKINS.

CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS.

THE VANITY OF THE WORLD.

EXPOSITION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER.

EXPOSITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

VOL. II.

DISCOURSES ON THE LAW..

DISCOURSES CONCERNING SIN.

TEIE DOCTRINE OF THE TWO COVENANTS.

TIIE DOCTRINE OF THE TWO SACRAMENTS.

THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF REGENERATION,

VOL. III.

THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST TO SAVE SINNERS.

THE EXCELLENCY OF HEAVENLY TREASURES.

PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY, IN WORKING OUT OUR OWN SALVATION,

THIE ASSURANCE OF HEAVEN AND SALVATION, A PRINCIPAL MOTIVE

TO SERVE GOD WITH FEAR.

ON GLORIFYING GOD IN HIS ATTRIBUTES.

THE ALMOST-CHRISTIAN DISCOVERED.

ON THE NATURE, CORRUPTION, AND RENEWING OF THE CONSCIENCE.

THE GREAT DUTY OF MORTIFICATION.

VOL. IV.

DEATH DISARMED OF ITS STING; FROM SEVERAL CONSIDERATIONS.

MISCELLANEOUS SERMONS.

INDEX OF TEXTS ILLUSTRATED.

INDEX.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

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ACCOUNT OF FORMER EDITIONS OF BISHOP HOPKINS'S WORKS

ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT EDITION

LIFE OF BISHOP HOPKINS; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS

SONS, CHARLES AND JOHN

CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS

1. THE VANITY OF THE WORLD

II. A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION ON THE LORD'S PRAYER

III. A CATECHISTICAL EXPOSITION ON THE LORD'S PRAYER,

by way of Question and Answer

IV. AN EXPOSITION ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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Bishop Hopkins himself published none of the pieces, now collected for the first time; except the SERMON ON The Death of MR. Grevill, in 1663, and again in 1685; the Treatise on the VANITY OF THE WORLD in 1668, and the SERMON ON SUBMISSION TO Rulers in 1671: being “ endowed,” as a former Editor observes,

a “ with so great modesty and humility,” and entertaining such " mean and low thoughts of himself and his own performances, that the world, while he lived, had very little knowledge of him from the press; he having published nothing but what he was constrained to, either by the restless importunity of friends, or the commands of those who were some time his superiors."

In 1692, two years after the death of 'our author, the Bishop of Cork and Posse published, in 1 vol. 4to., the EXPOSITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WITH OTHER SERMONS. These Sermons were the two on John vii. 19. and'on Gal. iï. 10. placed at the beginning of Vol. ii. of this edition. It appears from the Editor's preface, dated Peckham-Place, July 3d, 1691, (See Vol. i. of this edition, p. 269) that this, like most of our author's pieces, was not originally intended for the press, but only as a part