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clared Order; and this is allowable, where the Method opens as You read, and the Order discovereth itself in the Progress of the Subject: But certainly, my Lord, of all Pieces that were ever written in a professed and stated Method, and distinguished by the Number and Succession of their Parts, our English Sermons are the completest in Order and Proportion; the Method is so easy and natural, the Parts bear so just a Proportion to one another, that among many others, this may pass for a peculiar Commendation of them: For those Divisions and Particulars which obscure and perplex other Wri-

tings,