NOTE. In IN speaking of the original edition, I have referred to a copy in my own possession; from which the title is copied. I have since found that there is a copy in the British Museum bearing the same date, but not in all respects the same. the titlepage, instead of newly enlarged, it has newly written. It professes to be "printed by John Haviland, for Hanna Barret," omitting the name of Richard Whittaker, and the words which follow. In the text, it is difficult even on a careful examination to detect any differences whatever. But upon referring to the passages in which I had noticed an error, or a doubt, or a variety of reading, I find that in three of them it differs from my copy. In p. 146. it has children not child: in p. 167. flower not flowers: in p. 219. game not gaine. One or two other variations which occur in the later essays I have noticed in their places. Of these copies, one must certainly have been a proof in which corrections were afterwards made. And the fact that all the later editions have "newly enlarged" in the titlepage, instead of "newly written," favours the supposition that mine is the corrected copy. That in some cases (as for instance in pages 167. and 219.) the reading of the other copy is unquestionably the right one, may possibly be explained by accidents of the press. The last letter in flowers may have failed to take the ink; the m in game may have been injured, and being mistaken for an imperfect in may have been replaced by a perfect in. LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS WORKS. PART III. ADVERTISEMENT TOUCHING A HOLY WAR; OF THE TRUE GREATNESS OF BRITAIN; COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL; LETTER AND DISCOURSE TO SIR HENRY SAVILL, TOUCHING HELPS FOR THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS. CONFESSION OF FAITH; MEDITATIONES SACRÆ; PRAYERS, AND TRANSLATION OF CERTAIN PSALMS INTO ENGLISH VERSE. LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, |