NINETY-SIX SERMONS A BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, LANCELOT ANDREWES, SOMETIME LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND. VOL. V. FOR LIBR NEW-YORK OXFORD: JOHN HENRY PARKER. MDCCCXLIII. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE present volume completes the "Ninety-six Sermons," the only authentic Sermons of Bishop Andrewes which had been so far finished under his own hand as to be considered by those to whom his papers were entrusted, Bishops Laud and Buckeridge, in a fit state for publication. The Funeral Sermon, preached by one of these, his friend Bishop Buckeridge, is appended in the place which it has usually occupied in former editions of the Ninety-Six Sermons, being as it were the seal of their authenticity, and marking the boundary between Andrewes's finished and authenticated and his imperfect and less authenticated Sermons and Lectures. Of this latter class are the Sermons on the Lord's Prayer and on the Temptation, The Exposition of the Moral Law, and the Orphan Lectures on Genesis; of which it is as certain from their matter and manner that they had no other author than Bishop Andrewes, as it is from other circumstances that they were not, strictly speaking, from his pen. The account to be given of these publications is probably this. In a Preface to the first edition of the work on the Moral Law, which was printed in a very negligent imperfect way in the year 1642, it is said that "he was scarce reputed a pretender to learning and piety in Cambridge (during Andrewes's residence there) who made not himself a disciple of Bishop Andrewes by diligent resorting to his |