THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANN, LADY WHARTON MADAM,—The known esteem your ladyship had for the reverend author, and the kind respects you still bear to his surviving relations, gives your ladyship a claim to any of his works. But besides that, the right you have to a part of this volume makes this public offer of it to your ladyship justly necessary, the ‘Treatise of Self-denial’ being many years since, in the time of your ladyship’s widowhood, designed and prepared by the author