WITH GREAT PREACHERS; OR, TWENTY-EIGHT SERMONS UPON THE FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH. EDITED FROM THE LATIN BY JOHN M. ASHLEY, B. C. L., INCUMBENT OF S. PETER'S, VERE STREET, LONDON. OTH LONDON: J. T. HAYES, LYALL PLACE, EATON SQUARE; & PREFACE. A COURSE of Sermons for the Sundays of the Christian Year, seemed to be necessarily incomplete, if no provision were made-not only for such Festivals as take the precedence of an ordinary Sunday, but also for those other Feasts, all of which must become Dominical within a limited number of years. "A Year with Great Preachers" therefore is rightly followed by "A Festival Year with Great Preachers," prepared upon the same plan and adapted for a like use. It is probable that the present book may be of more use than its predecessors, inasmuch as, whilst many of the Clergy have a large Collection of Sunday Sermons, their stock of Festival Sermons is often but a small one. To this circumstance, must in great part be attributed the common fact, that when an ordinary festival falls upon a Sunday, beyond the recitation of the Collect or a change in the Lessons, the special teaching of the day is wholly overlooked. I have no fear that those who so kindly wel VOL. III. b |