FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE;

& J. H. PARKER, OXFORD.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Spring Quarter may fitly be called the Sacramental, from the series of Feasts and Seasons which it comprises, and the character of the doctrines which it commemorates. The subjects then which it introduces to our meditation are naturally of a theological cast; but as it has been the wish of the Author, in his foregoing volumes, to make his Sermons, for the most part, bear upon conduct, so here also, as far as was consistent with reverence towards the sacred events under review, he has selected such as either are altogether ethical and practical, or aim at suggesting advice, or removing perplexity, in matters of duty. Though Trinity Sunday does not, strictly speaking, fall within the Quarter, he has thought he might be allowed to include it in this

course.

ORIEL COLLEGE, Quinquagesima, 1842.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

FASTING A SOURCE OF TRIAL.

(LENT.)

MATT. iv. 2.

And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was

afterward an hungered.

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SERMON II.

LIFE THE SEASON OF REPENTANCE.

(LENT.)

GEN. xxvii. 34.

And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a

great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless

me, even me also, O my

father.

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SERMON III.

APOSTOLIC ABSTINENCE A PATTERN FOR CHRISTIANS.

(LENT.)

1 TIM. V. 23.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's

sake, and thine often infirmities.

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