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TO THE RIGHT REVEREND AND HONOURABLE

GEORGE,

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, PRELATE OF THEGARTER, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL.

MY LORD,

IF I should undertake to enumerate the many favours and

advantages I have had by my very long acquaintance with your Lordship, I fhould enter upon an employment that might prove as tedious as the collecting of the materials for this poor monument, which I have erected, and do dedicate to the memory of your beloved friend, Dr. Sanderson: But though I will not venture to do that, yet I do remember with pleasure, and remonstrate with gratitude, that your Lordship made me known to him, Mr. Chillingworth, and Dr. Hammond; men whose merits ought never to be forgotten.

My friendship with the firft was begun almost forty years paft, when I was as far from a thought, as a defire to out-live him; and farther from an intention to write his Life: But the wife Difpofer of all men's lives and actions hath prolonged the first, and now permitted the last; which is here dedicated to your Lordship (and as it ought to be) with all humility, and a defire that it may remain as a public teftimony of my gratitude.

My Lord,

Your most affectionate old friend,

And most humble fervant,

IZAAK WALTON.

a Mr. Ifaac Walton was honoured with the friendship of Mr. Chillingworth, the glory of his age and nation. This memorable man, who, with Lord Falkland, was proverbially celebrated at Oxford for his clear and acute reafoning, found himself so bewildered in the mazes of controversy, that he became a convert to Popery. From the errors of "An Infallible Church," the found argumentation of Dr. Laud, then Bishop of London, happily restored him. Of the effect which the perufal of his immortal work, "The Religion of Proteftants a Safe Way to Salvation," wrought upon the mind of Dr. Tillotson, see Birch's Life of that Prelate, p. 5.Of the death of Mr. Chillingworth, fee "Kennet's Hift. of England," Vol. III. 144.

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