BY THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE AND REVEREND

FATHER IN GOD,

LANCELOT ANDREWES,

SOMETIME LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND.

VOL. I.

OXFORD:

JOHN HENRY PARKER.

MDCCCXLI.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

A FEW words only will suffice to put the reader in possession of all that it is important for him to know with respect to the present volume.

The text has been carefully reprinted from the second edition published in 1631, and it has throughout been collated with the editions of 1641 and 1661;/but with the exception of a few verbal inaccuracies and obvious misprints, which have been corrected, it has not been deemed advisable, or indeed found necessary, to make the slightest alteration either in the style or in the arrangement of the author.

Much labour has been bestowed upon the marginal references to Scripture, many of which were found on examination to be exceedingly erroneous, and it soon became apparent that unless they were revised throughout, the reader would experience no ordinary difficulty in discovering the passages to which he was directed. They have accordingly been submitted to a rigid scrutiny, and the result has been such, that the editor is led to hope but few inaccuracies have escaped his observation. It must however be borne in mind, that in many cases the reference to Scripture is very slight, and