copy to the Head of every College, and one copy to the Mayor of the city of Oxford, and one copy to be put into the Bodleian library, and the expense of printing them shall be paid out of the revenue of the land or estates given for establishing the Divinity Lecture Sermons; and the preacher shall not be paid, nor be entitled to the revenue, before they are printed. Also, I direct and appoint, that no person shall be qualified to preach the Divinity Lecture Sermons, unless he hath taken the degree of Master of Arts at least, in one of the two Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, and that the same person shall never preach the Divinity Lecture Sermons twice. CONTENTS. SERMON L LUKE xii. 51. Suppose ye that I am come to give Peace on Earth? DISSENTIONS in the church-their fatal effects-contrary to held by the dissenters at the restoration down to the beginning at Colchester-From that time a change in men's opinions on the subject-Traced back to bishop Hoadly, and his principles -Bangorian controversy-Nonjurors-Union in conse- quence between all the dissenters--Even Arians and Socinians taken into favour-Found protection and countenance in certain members of the Church-Hoadly-Whiston-Clarke- Clayton-Blackburne --Application to parliament in 1772- Supposed or real laxity of opinion in the clergy produced the Methodists-They also have a party in the church favourable to them-All these naturally give encouragement to schism- Hence it is become an evil which requires particularly to be resisted-Plan of the present lectures-Questions which arise out of it, or are connected with it-Church government-Na. tional establishment-General exhortation to follow after TEXT considered-Inference from thence, and from other similar texts of the necessity of conformity-What is required the Old and the New Testament written for our admonition--- Effect of all laws to produce uniformity-Particularly shewn in the case of the Jews-Examples drawn from the earlier ages Before the deluge--Subsequent thereto-In the imme- diate descendants of Noah-General apostacy in consequence of men being left to themselves--The Jewish nation on that account selected and set apart-Tied to a strict rule-Relaxed in the time of the judges-Consequence-Strict observance of the established order required in subsequent ages-Schism of Corah and his fellows-Separation of the ten tribes-Extended by Jeroboam to religious worship-Why-Its fatal conse- quences-All these instances conclusive against schism- Strongly in favour of adopting a certain degree of ceremony in religion-View of the question under the New Testament--- Ye shall know them by their Fruits. TEXT explained and commented upon-To judge of a doc. |