TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. A Priest to the Temple, or the Country Parson, his Character, and Rule of Holy Life, by Mr. George Herbert, A. M. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and sometime Public Orator of that University; to which are prefixed a Preface by B. Oley, and a Prefatory View of the Life and Virtues of the Author, and Excellencies of this book

p. 1-92.

II. Rules and Advices to the Clergy of the Diocese of Down and Connor, by Jeremy Taylor, D. D. Lord Bishop of that Diocese

p. 93–109.

III. A Discourse of the Pastoral Care, by Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Sarum

p. 111-235.

IV. A Discourse by Thomas Sprat, D. D. Lord Bishop of Rochester, to the Clergy of his Diocese, 1695.

p. 237-268.

V. A Companion for the Candidates of Holy Orders in two parts; the first being a Visitation Sermon, concerning the great difficulty and danger of the Priestly Office; and the second, a Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of St. David's, on the principal parts and branches of the Pastoral Office, with rules and directions for the due performance of each of them, by George Bull, D. D. Lord Bishop of St. David's p. 269-303.

VI. Directions given to the Clergy of the Diocese of London in the year 1724, by Edmund Gibson, D. D. Lord Bishop of London. To which is added his charge to the

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