WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND

BEILBY PORTEUS, D.D.

LATE BISHOP OF LONDON:

WITH

HIS LIFE,

BY THE

REV. ROBERT HODGSON, A.M. F.R.S.

AND

RECTOR OF ST. GEORGE'S HANOVER-SQUARE,

ONE OF THE CHAPLAINS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.

A NEW EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.-TRACTS.

London:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND,

By Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ABTOR, LENOI

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

BY THE RIGHT REVEREND

BEILBY PORTEUS, D.D.

BISHOP OF LONDON.

FIFTH EDITION.

ASTOR LIBRARY

NEW-YOR

London:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES,

IN THE STRAND.

1817.

6. WOODFALL, printer, anGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

A Review of the Life and Character of the Right

Reverend Dr. Thomas Secker, late Archbishop

of Canterbury

An earnest Exhortation to the Religious Observ

ance of Good Friday; in a Letter to the Inhabi-

tants of Lambeth Parish

A Letter to the Inhabitants of Manchester, &c.

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. 109

An Essay towards a Plan for the more effectual Ci-

vilization and Conversion of The Negro Slaves,

on the Trust Estate in Barbadoes, belonging to

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

in Foreign Parts .

A Charge, delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese

of London, at the primary Visitation of that

Diocese, in the year 1790.

A Charge, delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of

London, at the Visitation of that Diocese, in

the

year 1794

A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of London,

on the Profanation of the Lord's Day

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