HULSEAN LECTURES FOR 1823. ON THE APOSTOLICAL PREACHING ل AND VINDICATION OF THE GOSPEL TO THE Jews, Samaritans, & devout Gentiles, AS EXHIBITED IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, THE EPISTLES OF ST. PETER, AND THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. BY JAMES CLARKE FRANKS, M. A. CHAPLAIN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND VICAR OF HUDDERSFIELD, YORKSHIRE. CAMBRIDGE: Printed by J. Smith, Printer to the University; FOR C. & J. RIVINGTON, LONDON; AND SOLD BY DEIGHTON & SONS, STEVENSON, AND THE OTHER 1823 124. е 36. ΤΟ SIR JOHN RAMSDEN, BART. OF BYRAM, IN THE COUNTY OF YORK. SIR, BEING now about to close my official duties in this University, I cannot let this Volume issue from the press, until I have put upon record a thankful acknowledgment of my obligations to you for that Patronage, which could not have been anticipated by one previously unknown to you, but which has been extended to me in a manner so flattering and disinterested, as greatly to enhance the value of the benefit conferred. Being appointed by you to a ministerial charge so extensive and important, I must now leave this peaceful scene of literary exertion, not wholly without regret, yet with a pleasing recollection of the manifold advantages and blessings, which, for twelve years, I have here enjoyed. It is, however, no small satisfaction to me, that, through your kindness, I shall now remove to a station of high and honourable vi trust; to one, which will place me near my honoured Parents, at that period of their lives when this will be peculiarly gratifying to an only child;-near also to those native scenes, in which the friends and companions of early life still survive, and with which are ever associated some of the purest and happiest feelings of our nature. So precious to me has been the boon you have bestowed.-I am sensible that I am called upon henceforward to prove to you the sincerity of my gratitude, by the active and effectual discharge of all the varied duties of my office, as "a minister of Christ, and a steward of the mysteries of God," for the temporal and eternal welfare of the inhabitants of Huddersfield. I would say, therefore, in the words of our Ordination Service; "I will apply myself thereto, the Lord being my helper." vii Substance of certain CLAUSES in the WILL of the REV. J. HULSE, M.A. dated July 21, 1777. He founds a LECTURESHIP in the University of Cambridge. The Lecturer is to be a "Clergyman in the University of Cambridge, of the degree of Master of Arts, and under the age of forty years." He is to be elected annually, 66 on Christmas-day, or within seven days after, by the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, and by the Master of Trinity College, and the Master of Saint John's College, or any two of them." In case the Master of Trinity, or the Master of Saint John's be the Vice-Chancellor, the Greek Professor is to be the third Trustee. The duty of the said Lecturer is "to preach twenty Sermons in the whole year, that is to say, ten Sermons during the months of April, and May, and the two first weeks in June; and likewise ten Sermons during the months of September, and October, and during the two first weeks of November." The place of preaching, is to be "Saint Mary's Great Church in Cambridge:" and the time, "either on the Friday morning, or else on Sunday afternoon.” The subject of the said Discourses is to be, "the Evidence for Revealed Religion; the truth and excellence of Christianity; Prophecies and Miracles; direct or collateral proofs of the Christian religion, especially the collateral arguments; the more difficult texts or obscure parts of the Holy Scriptures;" or any one or more of these topics, at the discretion of the Preacher. The subject of the said Discourses is not to be "any particular sects or controversies amongst Christians themselves; except some |