uniformly enforced Church-principles, as they are called, wherever the subject under discussion has led to them.

And by Church-principles he means those which are in entire accordance with the Church of the Prayer Book; a Church in which all things necessary to salvation may be found, and which offers us blessings and privileges far greater and more numerous than we choose to avail ourselves of;—a Church which is Catholic, not sectarian; following primitive rule and practice, not the corruptions of divided times and later ages; neither Romanizing nor ultraProtestant, but evangelical and apostolical in the true sense of those terms; a Church, in which there may be imperfections and deficiencies, (as in her discipline, in the working of her system, and in the lives and tempers of her members), but with which, till they have lived up to her ordinances, fully and unreservedly, it does not behove any of her children to be dissatisfied, and of which, therefore, it still less behoves them to set themselves up as judges.

With the teaching of that Church, as exhibited in her Prayer Book, the writer has endeavoured to identify his own; and if there be anything in this volume which is not in accordance with that teaching, which comes short of

it, or goes beyond it, the writer desires to repudiate and revoke it, and to submit himself in all things to her teaching.

And he begs the prayers of those who may chance to differ from him, as well as of those who agree with him, that what he has here said truly, may bring forth fruit unto perfection, and that what is unsound (if, unhappily, any such thing there be,) may wither, and die, and find no entrance into his readers' hearts.

Elford Rectory.

FEAST OF THE CONVERSION OF S. PAUL.

1844.

The wicked shall be turned into hell: and all the people that forget God. .

SERMON III.

CHRISTIAN PROGRESS.

MATTHEW xix. 20.

What lack I yet? .

SERMON IV.

THE SOURCE OF MAN'S SUFFICIENCY.

2 CORINTHIANS iii. 5.

Our sufficiency is of God.

SERMON V.

THE BLESSEDNESS OF NOT BEING OF-
FENDED IN CHRIST.

MATTHEW xi. 6.

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in

Me.

SFRMON VI.

HOLINESS IN OURSELVES AND FORBEAR-
ANCE TO OTHERS.

MARK ix. 50.

Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with

another.

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SERMON VII.

ON SINS OF THE TONGUE.

MATTHEW Xii. 36.

I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

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