THE PREACHING

OF THE

REGULAR CLERGY

ILLUSTRATED

AND

DEFENDED.

Printed by R. and R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.

THE PREACHING OF THE REGULAR CLERGY

ILLUSTRATED AND DEFENDED,

IN A

VISITATION SERMON,

PREACHED BEFORE THE

ARCHDEACON AND CLERGY OF LEWES AND PEVENSEY,

AND PUBLISHED AT THEIR UNANIMOUS REQUEST:

AND FURTHER VINDICATED IN AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

NOTES ON THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCTRINES

ADVERTED TO IN THE SERMON,

WITH

EXTRACTS CHIEFLY FROM THE PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS
OF SECTARIAN WRITERS.

BY

SAMUEL HOLLAND, M.D.
(LATE FELLOW OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD ;)
RECTOR OF POYNINGS, SUSSEX;

AND DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO LORD ERSKINE.

SIXTH EDITION.

Will you be ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word? &c.

OFFICE FOR THE ORDERING OF PRIESTS.

D

London:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1817.

TO THE VENERABLE

MR. ARCHDEACON D'OYLY, A.M.

THE REVEREND

THE CLERGY OF THE DEANRIES OF LEWES
AND PEVENSEY,

AND

THE OTHER GENTLEMEN WHO ATTENDED THE VISITATION,

THIS

SERMON,

18,

WITH A JUST SENSE OF THE VALUE OF THAT APPROBATION,