A SERMON Preach'd before the University OF OXFORD At St. Peters Church in the East on Mid-Lent Sunday March BY College in OXFORD. Seeft thou a man wise in his own Conceit? There is more hopes of a Fool than of Him. Prov. 26. 12. OXFORD, Fickus Bookseller. 168 5. Dunning To the Reverend Dr. HENRY MORE of Christ's College in CAMBRIDGE. N Reverend SIR, Either the Ambition of honouring this Discourse with your Great Name, nor the Vanity of thinking this sender Oblation a sufficient discharge from those strong Obligations whereby I stand endebted to you, were the Motives which determind my Choice in this Dedication. I intend-only hereby to expreß my great Veneration for your Worth, and my Gratitude for that Particular share which you have been pleas'd to vouchsafe me in Favour. As for the Discourse which now begg's your acceptance and protection, I am not unsensible that much of it lies out of the common road of thinking, and may upon that Score incur the Censure of those narrow-spirited Theorists, who confine their SpecuLations to the limits of Antiquity, resign up the your natural |