By the same Author New Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. Lectures on the Doctrine of Justification. New Edition. Crown Svo. 5s. Sermons bearing upon Subjects of the Day. Edited by the Rev. W. J. COPELAND, B. D. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 55. Fifteen Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, between A.D. 1826 and 1843. New Edition. Eight Vols. Crown 8vo. 5s. each. Sold separately. Parochial and Plain Sermons. Edited by the Rev. W. J. COPELAND, B. D., Rector of Farnham, Essex. RIVINGTONS London, Drford, and Cambridge ca PREFACE. THE present volume has for its design the publication, in a convenient and inexpensive form, uniform with the rest, of a selection of about fifty from the "Parochial and Plain Sermons" of the Author; such as might be acceptable at once to those for whose benefit the Sermons were originally designed, and not unacceptable to others into whose hands the book might fall, in the interest of a common faith and love. In the short Preface to the eight volumes mention was made of the effect of the Sermons "in bringing out the fundamental Articles of the Faith, and their bearing on the formation of the Christian character." It is well to state here that the choice made in the Selection has been made with special reference to that bearing. The Author in his earliest work, the "History of the Arians," which preceded the first volume of the Sermons, while insisting on the duty of the Church to define and 1 First edition, p. 163. |