Excerpt from Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions Dr. South gave successively to the public, six volumes of his sermons during his life five others, much inferior in interest, and in their general character, afterwards appeared. The sixth com plete edition was published in 1744; nor is any subsequent to that date known to me. It is certainly remarkable, that while two distinct volumes of his contemporary Barrow, alter the present plan, have issued from the Clarendon press within this century; the same cflice has not till now been performed for South. What renders the solution of this the more difficult is, that by the manner in which he is to this day referred to and quoted, on questions of doctrine, in the principal journal of the English church, his name would seem to have lost little of its weight and influence with the lapse of years. The local topics of many of these sermons, can explain this neglect, only in part; for this circumstance has its share also in giving them something of their interest and value. As little can it be thought chargeable, in any great measure at least, on the unami able features which his pages too often present. In that case surely, the author would have most rigorously expiated the faults of the man. Various causes, probably, have conspired to te remove these sermons so far from the public norice; and it affords some complacency to the editor, as well as some recompense to his labour, to have been in any degree the means of their revival. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.