Sermons preached... Trinity College...

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Dedication

We are now, my dear Dean, very old fellowlabourers in the service of our beloved College : and I rejoice to have an opportunity of expressing to you my gratitude — a feeling in which the whole College shares — for your unwearied exertions in the promotion of piety, virtue, and sound learning among us.

That you may long enjoy the satisfaction of seeing us make still further progress in those respects, is the earnest wish and prayer of one who is,

My dear Dean,

Preface

PjpHE following Sermons are not published on account of any theological value which is claimed for them: but it was thought that some of those who heard them delivered might be glad to have an opportunity of recurring to them; and that other persons, on various accounts, might wish to see the character of our College Chapel Sermons, so far as these examples represent it.

The Second and Third of the Sermons were composed when the preacher entertained the intention of introducing into the Series of Discourses which he had to deliver, an exposition of the place and Office of Religion in a State. This intention was afterwards abandoned.

The first Nineteen of these Discourses were preached on those days in each Term when the Holy Communion is administered to the Members of the College, and a Sermon addressed to them by the Master. The remaining ones, as well as several

PREFACE.

others, were delivered at various periods by the Author, as a Fellow of the College. The two Commemoration Sermons have already been printed, but not published. The " College Student" was published a few years ago, as one of the " Sermons by XXXIX Living Divines of the Church of England."

Of the Twentieth Sermon with its Notes, it is hardly necessary to remind the reader, that the notice of the distinguished men of Trinity College which it contains, includes a portion only of such persons, selected casually, or at least with reference to some circumstance which drew attention at the moment.

CONTENTS,

SERMON I.

THE CHRISTIAN VOCATION.

EPHESIANS IV. 1.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye ivalk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called

SERMON II.

THE SOUL.

MATTHEW XVI. 26.

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul

SERMON III.

RELIGION AND LAW.

PROVERBS XV. 3.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the

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