SERMON CXL.
Confirmation of Divine authority; and its importance in pro-
moting piety and virtue.

Acts viii. 17.

Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Ghost.

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Eight Charges delivered ii be Dioceses of Oxford and

Canterbury.

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The Bishop of Oxford's Charge to his Clergy in the year

1738.
The Bishop of Oxford's Charge to his Clergy in the year
1741.

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The Bishop of Oxford's Charge to his Clergy in the year
1747

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The Bishop of Oxford's Charge to his Clergy in the year
1750.

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The Bishop of Oxford's Charge to his Clergy in the year
1753

135

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charge to his Clergy in the

year 1758.

153

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charge to his Clergy in the

year 1762.

171

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charge to his Clergy in the

year 1766.

190

Instructions given to Candidates for Orders, after their sub-

fcribing the articles.

208

Oratio quam ceram Synodo Provinciæ Cantuarienfis anno 1761,

convocatâ habendam scripserat, sed morbo præpeditus non

habuit, Archiepiscopus.

217

CON-

CONTENTS OF THE LECTURES.

1

LECTURE 1.

INTRODUCTION.

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LECTURE II.

Priviles of Baptism.

LECTURE III.

Renunciation in Baptism.

245

LECTURE IV.

Obligation to believe and to do.

252

LECTURE V.

Grounds and rule of faith.

258

LECTURE VI.

CREED.

Article I. I believe in God the Father, &c.

266

LECTURE VII.

CREED.

Article II. And in Jesus Christ bis only Son our Lord.

273

LECTURE VIII.

CREED.

Article III. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the

Virgin Mary,

279

LECTURE IX.

CREED.

Article IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead

and buried; he descended into hell.

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LECTURE X.

CREED.

Article V. The third day he rose again from the dead. p. 295

LECTURE XI.

Creen.

Article VI. He ascended into Heaven, and fitteth on the right

band of God the Father Almighty:

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LECTURE XII.

CREED.

Article VII. From thence be fall come to judge the quick and

tbe dead.

319

LECTURE XIII.

CREED.

Article VIII. Į believe in the Holy Ghost.

317

LECTURE XIV.

CREED.

Article IX. The holy catholic church, the communion of saints,

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LECTURE XV.

CREED.

Article X, I be forgiveness of sins,

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LECTURE XVI.

CREED.

Articles XI, XII. Part I. The resurrection of the body, and

the life everlasting;

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LECTURE XVII.

CREED.

Articles XI, XII. Part II. The resurrection of the body, and

the life everlasting

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LECTURE XVIII.

The first commandment.

358

LECTURE XIX.

7 be fecond commandment.

365

LECTURE XXIII.

The fifth commandinent. Part II.

395

LECTURE XXIX.

Of man's inability, God's grace, and prayer to him for it. 442

LECTURE XXX,

The LORD'S PRAYER.

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. 450,

LECTURE XXXI.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.

457

LECTURE XXXII.

Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespaljes,

As we forgive them that trespass against us.

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LECTURE XXXIII.'

And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from evll: for

thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever

and ever.
Amen.

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LECTURE XXXIV.

The nature and number of the facraments.

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LECTURE XXXV.

Of Baptism.

480

LECTURE XXXVI.

Of the Lord's Supper. Part I.

488

LECTURE XXXVII.

Of the Lord's Supper. Part 11.

495

LECTURE XXXVIII.

Of the Lord's Supper. Part JII.

LECTURE XXXIX.

The Conclusion

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An Answer to Dr Mayhew.

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A Letter to the Right Honourable Horatio Walpole, Efq. 567

SERMON