authority, and the word of God, but which itself scorns to derive them from any but the Eternal Founder of Christianity. If you find but one system which possesses all these qualities, and yet more, if you find only one which pretends to possess them; oh, by what principle of reason, or even of self-love, will you justify your refusal to embrace it? By what plea, before God, will you excuse any delay in studying and examining its claims?

Such has been our course till now; we have surveyed the building; it remains, that we boldly enter on the second task, of verifying the separate parts of that system, which, in the aggregate, so marvellously harmonises with all that is revealed, and all that is worthy of God. This examination of particular dogmas will commence, at our next meeting, my second course.

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with you all, brethren. Amen."

* 2 Cor. xiii. 13.

END OF VOLUME 1.

LECTURES

ON THE

PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES

OF THE

CATHOLIC CHURCH,

DELIVERED AT ST. MARY'S, MOORFIELDS, DURING THE LENT OF 1836.

BY NICHOLAS WISEMAN, D.D.

THE LATE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER.

VOL. II.

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ADVERTISEMENT TO VOLUME II.

In the Lectures which compose the following volume, & slight deviation has been made from the order in which they were delivered. The tenth Lecture was upon the Real Presence, or Transubstantiation; but, as this subject was treated on three successive Sundays, on account of the greater numbers who could attend on that day, while other topics were discussed on the Wednesdays and Fridays, it has been thought expedient to proceed with these, and place the three Lectures on the Real Presence together, at the close of the series.

A Discourse has been added on Indulgences. This was not delivered at Moorfields, from want of time. It had, however, been given at the Sardinian Chapel, in a short course delivered there during Advent, 1835; and a strong desire having been expressed by many who heard it, that it should be published, the author has been induced to write it from his notes, and add it as a part of the present series.

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