XXVI ADVERTISEMENT. 



1753, and of this Life of his Father, novir first 

 presented to the public. To the kind per- 

 mission of these friends, is owing the present 

 publication. Having traced his title to, and the 

 authenticity of, the MS. Life, the Editor has 

 only to declare, that he has faithfully executed 

 his office. He expects, indeed, that, in the 

 opinion of some persons, he will deserve censure 

 for having too faithfully published the whole of 

 the MS. history, just as the author intended to 

 give it to the public many years ago, without 

 suppressing any portion of those passages of the 

 Archbishop's private UfCy which his own hand 

 alone could have recorded. It is true that 

 scoffers and enthusiasts may make a bad use of 

 the passages alluded to ; but he has not deemed 

 this liability to abuse a sufficient reason for 

 withholding from the more candid and judicious 

 reader, that ingenuous confession of private 

 feeling and of human infirmity, which characr/, 

 terises the good and great of all ages, and gives 

 to autobiography the highest charm and strongest 

 test of truth. As to his motives for publishing 

 the work, they arc these, and none other. Fii'st 



