Had Dr. Taylor been willing, in his life time, to have obliged the world with the following discourses, I am sure he would have sought no other patronage than that of Your Grace.

This was, of itself, a very strong inducement to me to solicit the same honour. But, even without this incitement, the virtues which Your Grace so uniformly displays in private life, naturally point you out, as a person to whom moral and religious investigations may, with the greatest propriety, be inscribed. And I flatter myself that the following discourses will not be deemed unworthy of the honour which Your Grace has been pleased to confer on the editor, in allowing your name to be prefixed to them.

I am,

My Lord,

with the greatest respect,

Your Grace’s most obliged,

and most humble servant,

Samuel Hayes.