viii "chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and 66 66 by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, between the hours of ten in "the morning and two in the afternoon, to, preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the 66 year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, be"tween the commencement of the last month "in Lent Term, and the end of the third week "in Act Term. 66 "Also I direct and appoint, that the eight "Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following Subjects—to con“firm and establish the Christian Faith, and to "confute all heretics and schismatics-upon the "divine authority of the holy Scriptures-upon "the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church-upon the Divinity of our "Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ-upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost-upon the Articles "of the Christian Faith, as comprehended, in "the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds. 66 66 66 66 "Also I direct, that thirty copies of the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be always printed, within two months after they are preached, and one copy shall be given to the Chancellor of the University, and one 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 64 ix expence 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 Lec"ture Sermons, unless he hath taken the De66 gree 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 I. The general principles of the Reformation, from its com- SERMON II. The same tendency pointed out in the Articles themselves, SERMON III. On Original Sin, as maintained by the Scholastics, the SERMON IV. On the tenet of the Schools respecting Merit de Congruo, SERMON V. The Articles "of Free Will," and "of Works before SERMON VI. On the Scholastical doctrine of Justification, the Lutheran, |