A SELECTION FROM THE SERMONS, GENERAL AND OCCASIONAL, OF THE REV. EDWARD ATKYNS BRAY, B.D., F.S.A. LATE VICAR OF TAVISTOCK; AUTHOR OF SERMONS ON PROTESTANTISM;" 66 POETICAL REMAINS," &c. &c. IN TWO VOLS. VOL. I. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. 1860. 100.3.55. ADVERTISEMENT. THE selection of Sermons, by the late Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray, which form the volumes here laid before the friends of the Author, and the public at large, must speak for themselves. The Editor, who highly estimates them, will not however venture any other remark upon them, than to say that they are in perfect accordance with the formularies of the Church of England. They are not conventional either in matter or style or mode of thinking; but are the work of a mind, which (though deeply imbued with the study of our old divines,) thought for itself; and expressed those thoughts by no ordinary rules of composition: it is hoped, therefore, that they will not be judged by any conventional standard of the present day. Many of them were delivered before large congregations and persons of superior intellectual judgment and attainments; and produced a powerful impression. That they may prove useful to the members of the Church, if but to a few; may be to the credit of the memory of their most worthy and lamented Author; and above all to the glory of God, is the humble but sincere prayer of the Editor. London, June 2nd, 1860. |