to Dr. Hickes or Mr. Nelfon, which might have rendered the Appendix still more agreeable and complete. N. B. Several incidental Things in the abovementioned Letters, which concerned particular Perfons, whether living or dead, have been omitted, whilst other Paffages, relating only to Principles or Parties of Men, have been fuffered to go abroad, in order to fhew more fully what Opinion the Writer had of fuch Parties and Principles; and in this Light, it is hoped, the Reader will confider them. THE THE CONTENTS. I. MR. Johnson's Life, Page i. II. The Primitive Communicant, in three Difcourfes on the Sacrament of the EUCHARIST; in which the Sacrament of CHRIST and of the Church are fully explained, Page 1. III. Devotions for the ALTAR, 180. IV. A Sermon preached at CANTerBURY School-Feaft. With a Pre face, face, fhewing that alphabetical Letters were never used before MOSES, and he first learned an Alphabet from GOD, from p. 209 to p. 288. Numb. xi. 29. Would God that that all the LORD'S People were Prophets, and that the LORD would put his SPIRIT upon them, 257. V. An Explanation of Daniel's Prophecy of the LXX Weeks, 289. THE LIFE OF THE Reverend Mr. JOHNSON, Late Vicar of Cranbrook in the County of Kent and Diocese of Canterbury. OHN JOHNSON was born December the 30th, 1662. He was the Son of the Reverend Mr. Thomas John-. fon, Vicar of Frindfbury near Rochefter, in Kent, by his Wife Mary the Daughter of the Reverend Mr. Francis Drayton, Rector of Little Chart in the fame County within the Diocese of Canterbury. His Father having been married about four Years died, leaving this Son and one Daughter to the Care of his Wife, with a fmall Eftate, which lying near Canterbury, The fettled in that City, where the continued a Widow a 2 March 4, 167%. a Widow for above fixty Years, dying about the goth Year of her Age, about two Years after the Death of her Son. She She put him to the King's School in that City, where he made fuch a Progrefs in the learned Languages, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, under Mr. Lovejoy, the then Master of that School, that when he was little more than fifteen Years of Age he was fent to St. Mary Magdalene College in Cambridge, where he was admitted under the Tuition of Mr. Turner, a Fellow of that Houfe, And in Lent Term 168 he took the Degree of Bachelor of Arts as a Member of that College. Soon after he was nominated by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury to a Scholarship in Corpus Chrifti (commonly called Bennet) College, being of the Foundation of Matthew Parker, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, after the Settlement of the Reformation under Queen Elizabeth: To which he was admitted April 29, 1682, under the Tuition of Mr. Beck, Fellow of that Houfe. He took the Degree of Mafter of Arts as a Member of that College at the Commencement 1685. Soon after he entered into Deacon's Orders, and became Curate to Mr. Thomas Hardres at Hardres, near Canterbury. And was ordained Priest in King Henry |