I Am very glad you chofe fo judicious an Overfeer of thofe SERMONS of Mr. HALES's, as Mr. Gunning, whom I always have had in high esteem, both for his Learning and Piety; and I am of his Opinion, that they may pass for extraordinary. That Sermon of Wrefting hard places of Scripture, may well begin your Collection. The other on Rom. xiv. 1. Him that is weak in the Faith, receive, &c. was preach'd at St. Pauls Crofs, and I moved him to print it. That of, My Kingdom is not of this World, I once faw, and returned to Mr. Hales, with four more, which I faw him put into Mr. Chillingworth's Hands: That of Dixi Cuftodiam, I have heard him often fpeak of it with a kind of Complacency. That of, He fpake a Parable, that Men ought always to pray, I be=" lieve is his, by the Paffage of the Spunge and the Knife, which I have heard from his Mouth. The Sermon which you had from D. Hammond upon, Son, remember, c. was preached at Eaton Colledge. The The other of Duels was either one or two, and preach'd at the Hague to Sir D. Carlton and his Company. That you call a Letter on, I can do all things, is a Sermon. The Sermon of, Peter went out and wept, c. is under his own Hand. One Caution I fhould put in, that you print nothing which is not written with his own Hand, or be very careful in comparing them ; for not long fince one shewed me a Sermon, which he Jaid was his, which I am confident could not be; for I faw nothing in it which was not Vulgaris monetæ, of a vulgar Stamp, common, and flat, and low. There be fome Sermons that I much doubt of, for there is little of his Spirit and Genius in them, and fome that are imperfect: That of Genef. xvij. 1. Walk before me, c. is most imperfect, as appears by the Autographum which I faw at Eaton a Fortnight fince. For his LETTERS, be had much trouble in that kind from feveral Friends, and I heard him fpeak of that Friends Letter you mention, pleafantly, Mr. He fets up Tops, and I muft whip them for him. But But I am very glad to hear you have gained thofe Letters into your Hands, written from the Synod of Dort. You may please to take notice, that in his younger days he was 4 Calvinist, and even then when he was employed at that Synod, and at the well preffing S. Joh. iij. 16 by EpifcopiusThere, I bid John Calvin good night, as he has often told me. I believe they will be as acceptable, or, in your Phrafe, as faleable, as his Sermons. I would not have you to venture thofe Papers out of your Hands to me, for they may mifcarry, and I fear it would be very difficult to find another Copy. Peradventure I may shortly fee you, at the Term I hope I Thall; and then I fhall advise you further the best I can about those other Sermons you have. 1 fee you will be troubled yet a while to put things in a right way. I have drawn in my Mind the Model of his Life, but I am like Mr.HALES, in this, which was one of his Defects, not to pen any thing till I must needs. God God profper you in your Work and Business you have in Hand, that neither the Church, nor the Author fuffer. Your affured Friend to his Power, Septemb. 17. 1657. Anthony Farindon, THE THE CONTENTS: SERMONS. Abuses of hard Places of Scripture. Hich the Unlearned and Unstable wreft, as they do the other Scri- Rom. 14. 1. Him that is weak in the Faith receive, but not The Rich Man's Recepifti, or the Danger of receiving our good Things in this Life. Preached on Easter- Of Duels, &c. Preached at the Hague. Mat. 26.75. And he went forth and wept bitterly. p. 116 Philip. 4. 13. I can do all things through Chrift, that ena- My |