The Benefits annexed to a Participation in the
two Christian Sacraments, of Baptism and

the Lord's Supper, considered,

IN

EIGHT SERMONS

PREACHED BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN THE YEAR MDCCCXXVI:

AT THE

LECTURE

FOUNDED BY

THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A.

CANON OF SALISBURY.

BY

WILLIAM VAUX, B.D.

DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF

CANTERBURY, AND LATE FELLOW OF

BALLIOL COLLEGE.

OXFORD,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR.
SOLD BY J. PARKER, OXFORD; AND MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON.

TO THE

MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

CHARLES,

BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE,

LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,

PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND,

AND

METROPOLITAN.

My LORD, IN seeking a patron for the Volume now presented to your GRĄCE, it was natural that I should address myself to one, to whom, though already under deep obligations, I had found, by experience, that it was not painful to be a debtor. There seemed too to be a propriety in placing under your GRACE's protection a course of Sermons, preached before that body,

my connection with which I primarily owe my introduction to your GRACE, and the distinguished honour of an ap

to

pointment as one of your Domestic Chaplains.

For the readiness with which my request to that effect was acceded to, I have now to renew my acknowledgments; and publicly to express my sense of your GRACE's kindness and condescension, in permitting the following Work to appear under the sanction of a name, which cannot but ensure it a favourable reception, in the first instance, from those, whose judgment must finally decide upon its merits.

With unfeigned sentiments of duty and respect,

I have the honour to be,

My Lord,
Your GRACE's

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

INTRODUCTORY observations on the general presumption,

both from nature and revelation, in favour of the an-

nexation of benefits to a participation in the Christian

sacraments.

2. PET. i. 4.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious

promises.

LECTURE II.

Entrance upon the more particular inquiry, what those

benefits are.

Statement of the method in which this

inquiry will be conducted, with respect to both Sacra-

ments. Of the nature of the rite of Baptism; of the

natural significancy of the action, which constitutes its

material part; and of the limitation of that significancy

to its particular purposes, by the words of institution,

and the history and immediate circumstances of its ap-

pointment.

MATT. xxviii. 19.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them.

LECTURE III.

On the passages in the Acts of the Apostles, bearing

upon the benefits annexed to Baptism.

Acts ii. 38, 39.

Repent, and be baptized every one of you, in the name of