Introduction
Astell excerpts a sizable passage from a sermon by non-juror George Hickes
(A Sermon Preached at the Church of St. Bridget
[1684]). Hickes takes Hebrews 13.16
as his starting point: "But to do
good, and to communicate, forget not; for with
such Sacrifices God is
well-pleased."
Astell knew Hickes and so could have come at his sermon in any number of
ways. Her pagination reveals her source to be a copy of the sermon as
published
individually in 1684 (the quoted material does indeed fall
on pp. 26-27), but it is
worth noting the appearance in 1713 of A Collection of Sermons, Formerly Preached by
the
Reverend George Hickes, D. D., 2 vols.
