from Gov. Gesinan 1816 THE PRACTICAL WORKS OF THE REVEREND RALPH ERSKINE, A. M. CONSISTING OF HIS SERMONS and POEMS. IN TEN LARGE, VOLUMES OCTAVO. VOLUME THE FIRST. The Editors of the prefent handsome Edition of the Rev. Mr. RALPH ERSKINE'S Practical Works, in Octavo, purchased, some time ago, from the Heirs of Mr. Newlands, the original Proprietor of these Works, the fole right of Printing, Publishing, and Vending them and judge it proper to notify this to the Public, that none may imagine they are invading the late Proprietor's right; and to affure all others, that if any presume to incroach upon theirs, in any respect, they will fubject themselves to a profecuti on. 15 PRACTICAL WORKS, A Of the Late REVEREND and LEARNED MR. RALPH ERSKINE, Minister of the Gofpel in DUNFERMLINE. CONSISTING OF Above One Hundred and Fifty SERMONS, IN TEN LARGE VOLUMES OCTAVO. To which is prefixed, An ACCOUNT of the AUTHOR'S LIFE and WRITINGS, By thefe he, being dead, yet fpeaketh. Heb. xi. 4. VOL. I Entered in Stationers-Hall. GLASGOW: Printed by WILLIAM SMI T H. Sold by W.SMITH and J. BRYCE, book fellers, Saltmercat. MDCCLX X V I I. 6003 The following Recommendations of Mr. ERSKINE'S Writings, by Dr. Bradbury and Mr. Hervey, were not infert in the folio edition; the Account of the Author's Life, here given, is quite different, and much fuller than the former one; and the Elegiac Poem, fubjoined thereto, was not printed with the former edition of his works. |