ADVERTISEMENT TO SECOND EDITION. AN opinion having been expressed in several quarters of the resemblance of some of the doctrinal statements in these volumes of Sermons to those received in the Church of Rome, the author has been led to point out some of the indelible distinctions between Romanism and what he conceives to be the genuine Anglican theology, in a volume now in course of publication upon the Prophetical office of the Church. Here he will but observe, that if Popery be a perversion or corruption of the Truth, as we believe, it must, by the mere force of the terms, be like that Truth which it counterfeits; and therefore, that the fact of a resemblance, as far as it is borne out, is no proof of any essential approximation in his opinions to Popery, as such. Rather, it would be a serious argument against their primitive character, if to superficial observers they bore no likeness to it. Ultra-Protestantism could never have been silently corrupted into Popery. OXFORD, February 28, 1837. CONTENTS. Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of PAGE Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cun- ning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is He cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon |