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LADY MARGARET'S PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE SIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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CAMBRIDGE:

DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.

LONDON: BELL AND DALDY.

1864.

100. f. 129.1

NOTICE.

I HAVE been requested by friends, and provoked by unfriendly critics, to depart somewhat from my usual rule, and to print part of a Sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, on Whitsunday, May 15th, 1864.

The Sermon was on the word of St Paul, (Epistle to the Romans, viii. 14:) As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God; and one of the criteria, by which Christians may prove themselves, whether they are so led, was suggested in the opening sentence of the following pages.

It may be as well to say, that the illustration of the casket and the treasure, the setting and the pearl, was intended only as a nearer approximation to the truth, than the phrase, "as the greater contains the less;" and as expressing the infinite pre-eminence of Revelations from Heaven over the details of history and chronology, which are included with them in the volume of the Holy Bible. The illustration was not intended to express accurately the relation between the divine and human elements in the Holy Scriptures, on which it is more easy to speak positively than to speak correctly. I will only say that such questions are not to be decided by isolated texts, or by a priori notions of what Revelation should be, or by fear of consequences; but by the large and patient study of Holy Scripture itself; sola spes est in vera inductione.

I gladly take this opportunity of expressing my sincere regret to find myself opposed to such men as Clerke and Durnford, Keble and Leighton, Pusey and Wordsworth, and many other pious and learned ministers of our Church: Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato; sed magis amica Veritas.

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