THE WORK S OF THOMAS SECKER, LL.D. LATE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. A NEW EDITION. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR JAMES DICKSON; AND SOLD BY LACKINGTON, CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, 1792. ADVERTISEMENT. ARCHBISHOP SECKER directed his studies, with peculiar energy, to that great department of theology which refpects Christian virtue. His skill in fcriptural criticism, and in the theory of religion, appear incidentally in the matter of his fermons; but when he purfued the detail of moral duty, he followed the bent of his genius, and held the path in which he was fitted to excel. HAD Dr. Secker remained through life in the more private fituation of a parochial paftor, his fermons would probably have been almost whol ly of the fame clafs with thofe which compofe this firft volume of the new edition; but when his merit brought him forward into the highest ecclefiaftical fituation, it became neceffary for the Archbishop of Canterbury to attend to puband to employ his talents on thofe fubjects which involved the interefts of the ftate, and of a national church. Of course, there occur in his works a feries of fermons, refpecting the rebellion, by which the religious and civil liberties of Britain were brought into hazard. There are fermons on occafions of war and peace, and on particular events affecting the ftate of the Royal Family. There are fermons lic cares, |