SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER BY RICHARD HURD, D.D. VOLUME THE FIRST. Lonions Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields; FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND. 1811. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Edition of Bishop WARBURTON'S Works by Bishop HURD, published in 1788 in seven volumes quarto, being out of print, it has been thought advisable to give this new Edition a form more adapted to the prevailing taste; to improve the arrangement, and to make the whole correspond, in size and appearance, with the intended Edition of the Works of Bishop HURD. In the annals of our Church, it would not, perhaps, be easy to find two Prelates of equally. splendid fame, who were so closely united by the sympathies of personal esteem and similarity of literary pursuits and this unform exhibition of their respective Writings, may be regarded as an attempt to render them inseparable as was the friendship of the Authors. In transforming the Volumes to a smaller size, without losing sight of propriety and system, much care and attention were required. These, the Editors hope and think, have been exerted in such measure, as cannot fail to be satisfactory. Brief enumeration of the CONTENTS:- The first Six Volumes are occupied by THE The First Part, comprising Books I. II. III. with The Second and Third Parts of the Divine Legation, comprising Books IV. V. VI. & IX. also with their respective preliminary matter, Appendices and Notes, followed by a GENERAL INDEX, and a List of AUTHORS quoted; occupy the fourth, fifth, and sixth It had been objected to former Editions, that the margins of the Divine Legation were too much The Seventh Volume contains THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE; or, The Necessity and Equity of an Established Religion, and a Test- Law, demonstrated. A work, in the opinion of the late Bishop Horsley, exhibiting "one of the finest specimens that are to be found in any language, of scientific reasoning applied to a political subject."-Here also, |
