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1. The Nature of II. The Dispositio

MEDITATIO

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BY THE RE Lee of St. Mary Magd

BEING

FOURTEEN

RMONS,

HED IN THE PARISH-CHURCH OF

MAGDALEN IN OXFORD.

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PREFACE.

owing Discourses are sent into the to obviate the manifold misconcepsrepresentations which the author of nunder. As they contain all the of christianity, and are a faithful ll the author's preaching, they will declare what those doctrines are, minister of the gospel, he has thought o inculcate. Being thankful that he El in the communion of the church of e is much more so, that in the same called to the honour of ministering gs. Her only authentic standard of chibited in her articles and homilies, as required solemnly to subscribe, he mself to be conscientiously attached real persuasion that they contain the - of God's word. How carefully he ed that form of sound words, a comthe ensuing discourses with those aromilies will best determine.

Royal declaration prefixed to the arforbidden, so he presumes not to take y sense but that which a literal and al construction of them imports ; and o authority by which any minister of of England can indulge himself in a Fitude of interpretation. author cannot but regard subscriptions

the soul under the deepest obligaincerity before the great Searcher of o requireth truth in the inward parts, think of those who in anu degree alloze

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