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LECTURES

ON THE

GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW;

DELIVERED IN THE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JAMES,

WESTMINSTER,

IN THE YEARS 1798, 1799, 1800, AND 1801.

BY THE RIGHT REVEREND

BEILBY PORTEUS, D. D.

BISHOP OF LONDON.

IN TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL & W. DAVIES, STRAND;
T. PAYNE, MEWS-GATE; and

F. & C. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1804.

219-1915.

HARY

Luke Hanfard, Frinter, Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-Inn Fields

TO THE

INHABITANTS

OF

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER,

THESE LECTURES,

WRITTEN PRINCIPALLY FOR THEIR BENEFIT,

AND FAVOURED WITH THEIR UNREMITTED

ATTENDANCE FOR FOUR SUCCESSIVE YEARS,

ARE,

WITH VERY SINCERE SENTIMENTS OF REGARD

AND ESTEEM,

AND WITH FERVENT PRAYERS FOR

THEIR HAPPINESS HERE AND HEREAFTER,

INSCRIBED,

BY

THEIR FAITHFUL AND AFFECTIONATE

FRIEND AND SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.