DISCOURSE

OF THE

PASTORAL CARE.
.(.1692).

WRITTEN

BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,
GILBERT BURNET, D.D.

BISHOP OF SARUM.

Author of the Life of Judge Hale, and the Life and Death
of the Earl of Rochester, &c.

Thirteenth Edition.

INCI UDING THE NEW PREFACE FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE
THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR W. BAYNES, 54, PATERNOSTER-ROW,

BY RANSON PLANT, SPILSBY.

1818.

141. m. 283

THE

PREFACE

ΤΟ

The Third Edition

OF THIS

BOOK.

IT is above twenty years since this book was first pub

lished by me, and now that those who have a concern în it think fit to reprint it, I thought it became me to review it carefully to see if there was cause given to alter any part of it, or to add any thing to it.

I wrote it when I was newly put into the post in which by the providence of God I still am. So that a longer course of experience and observation may have brought more things to my view than I could at that time reflect on. I own this is my favourite book: which, if it has raised