THESE Sermons were printed as a parting token of goodwill to my late Parishioners. And they are published in the hope that the sale of the volume may possibly benefit the Iffley Parochial Schools. It will at once be seen that they make no pretension to originality; but it is proper to make a distinct acknowledgment of my obligations in Sermon XIV. to the seventh letter in the Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne's "Hints to the Charitable," and in Sermon xv. to a Sermon on the same subject by the Provost of Oriel, and to Mr. Wilberforce's Prize Essay on the Parochial System. October, 1840. To the present Edition, two Sermons have been added. May, 1846. CONTENTS. Every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold, and When the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb |