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learned Gentlemen, that this new Edition was under- 

 taken. 



" In reprinting of these, great care has been taken to 

 rectify several gross mistakes and errors that were in the 

 former Edition. 



" You have also here Ten Sermons of the same Author, 

 never before published: Any who has read his other 

 pieces will easily discern them to be his, as they are wrote 

 with the same Spirit of Devotion and Piety which ap- 

 pears in the whole of his writings. 



" I was favoured with the Manuscript of Nine of these 

 from a worthy and learned Gentleman, who saj's, as far 

 as he remembers, he copied them Iwith his own Hand 

 from the Bishop's originals about sixty years ago. 



" I was obliged to another Gentleman who communi- 

 cated the Tenth one to me who had it in his possession, 

 taken from the Bishop as he delivered it.* 



" I have been greatly obliged to two worthy, learned, 

 and judicious Ministers (?) who took the charge of cor- 

 recting this Work, and think myself highly indebted to 

 them for the Pains and Labour they took on it. 



" I take this public Opportunity of returning my grate- 

 ful Acknowledgments and sincere Thanks to all the 

 Ladies and Gentlemen who have been the Encouragers of 

 my Undertaking. I would have printed a List of Sub- 

 scribers, but I thought it was a Piece of Ostentation few 

 are fond of. 



" I have got in my Possession some more Writings of 

 this valuable Author, which never were pi'inted, and have 

 a View of procuring some others which probably may be 

 communicated to the Fuhliclt, along with that very de- 

 serving and justly esteemed Work, his Commentary on 

 Peter, which is now become very scarce and seldom to be 

 met with. 



" You have prefixed to this Work a Print of the Author 

 for a Frontispiece, as also some Account of his Life and 

 Character. 



" In short, no care nor pains has been spared to make 

 this Book as correct and beautiful as possible. 



" As for the Discourses themselves of our pious and 

 worthy Author, I doubt not but thej^ will give full satis- 

 faction to every serious and impartial Reader : And their 

 meeting with a kind and favourable reception from the 

 Publick will give great Pleasure to your most humble and 

 most devoted Servant, David Wilson. Edinburgh, March 

 13, 1746." 



I Lave compared a good deal of the eighteen 

 sermons of this edition with that (also in my pos- 

 session) of 



" Sermons preached by Dr. Robert Leighton, late Arch- 

 bishop of Glasgow, Published at the desire of his Friends 

 after his Death, from his Papers written with his own 

 hand. S. John v. 35., Heb. xi. 4. London, Printed for 

 Sam Keble, and are to be Sold at the Great Turk's-Head 

 iu Fleet Street, over against Fetter-Lane -End, 1692," 8vo. 

 pp. 292. 



And from the Address to which Eiripnnach 

 quotes so liberally ; but I cannot find any difl'erent 

 readings in the text between the two editions. 

 Wilson appears to me to have followed as his rule 

 the edition of 1692, correcting its typographical 

 blunders, in some places to fall into others of a 

 similar kind, and making such slight alterations as 

 " it is " for " its," &c., generally modernising the 

 spelling, throwing in more capitals and italics, and 



* Preached before my Lord Commissioner and the Par- 

 liament, 14th November, 1669, John xxi. 22. 



in a few cases new arranging the mode of para- 

 graphing. Upon the whole, I think, both editions 

 are creditable as books of the day, more particu- 

 larly in the great run of that description of reli- 

 gious literature published in Scotland, which was 

 then often in very coarse type and paper. 



It may be stated that much curious information 

 relating to the bishop's bursaries will be found in 

 ^^ Deeds instituting Bursaries, Scholarships, and , 

 other Foundations in the College and University 

 of Glasgow, George Richardson, Printer to the 

 University, mdcccl.," 4to. pp. 299., — a work un- 

 derstood to have been privately printed at College 

 expence, and drawn up by the late Dr. William 

 Thomson, Professor of Medicine (see pp. 84. 91. 

 and 292. 296.). In the latter pages, the original 

 Deed of Mortification, under the bishop's hand, 

 dated " Bradhurst in Sussex, Aug. 1, Anno Do. 

 1677," is given at length from the Burgh (of Glas- 

 gow) Archives. Through the want of this docu- 

 ment, only " obtained by the kindness of the civic 

 authorities " at the time of the above-mentioned 

 publication, there formerly existed an " uncer- 

 tainty (on the part of the College Faculty) relative 

 to the conditions of tenure of Bishop Leighton's 

 Bursaries whichhad proved a source of annoyance." 

 These in " State of Bursaries in the University of 

 Glasgow as at 1st Nov. 1858," are represented as 

 "Patrons, Town Council of Glasgow, 18Z.; Patrons 

 present two, of whom the College select one ; 

 the Bursar may be continued for two or three 

 years in Divinity by Patrons, if he has good cer- 

 tificates from the Professors ; commences in Greek ; 

 course of Study Philosophy ; amount of Burse, £9, 

 4 years." " 1857," one student of " Moral Philo- 

 sophy," and another of " Logic." " In the ' Memo- 

 rabilia of the City of Glasgow, selected from the 

 Minute Books of the Burgh, 1588-1750' (printed 

 for private circulation, Glasgow, 1835), p. 305., of 

 date, 8 Sept. 1677, may be found a letter of thanks 

 addressed on this occasion to Bishop Leighton by 

 the Magistrates and Council." 



In the foregoing deed, as well for the purposes 

 of learning as of charity, it is narrated in respect 

 to the latter 



« That I, Dr. Robert Leighton, late Archbishop of Glas- 

 gow in Scotland, upon grave and serious considerations, 

 by the tenor hereof, Mortifie, dote, and appoint for ever 

 the soumes of money following to the ends and uses iin- 

 derwr'en. To witt .... Item, to the Hospitall in y« said 

 Burgh of Glasco, called y« Hospital of S'. Nicolas, or y« 

 Bishop's Hospitall, one hundr. and fifty pounds sterl. for 

 y« standing maintenance of two poor men yearly in y* s* 

 Hospitall .... v« Magistrates and Town Conseil of 

 Glasco or to whom they shall appoint to receit it in their 

 names .... to v« two poor men in y« Hospitall .... 

 And I hope they both will be carefull to chuse such as 

 upon whom that litle charity may bee best bestowed, 

 both in respect of their indigency and good conversation, 

 which is to be testified by y« Minister of y* Barony, or 

 some of y« Ministers of y« Burgh respective," &c. 



This act of beneficence, so congenial to the 



