LONDON:

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

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THE COMMISSION AND CONSEQUENT DUTIES OF

THE CLERGY;

IN A

SERIES OF DISCOURSES

PREACHED BEFORE THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

IN APRIL, MDCCCXXVI.

BY

HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D.

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, AND DEAN OF BOCKING.

They do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's, and do minister by his
commission and authority.'-ART. XXVI.

The ministry of things divine is a function which, as God did himself institute, so
neither may men undertake the same but by authority and power given them in lawful
manner.'-HOOKER, V. 77.

'A call then necessary; and this call, though mediate, and by the ministry of men,
is from Christ.'-BISHOP REYNOLDS, SERMON xxiii. Works, Vol. v. p. 352.

SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED.

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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

AND J. & J. J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE.

'Nec prærogativam mihimet scientiæ, si hæc meis consacerdotibus charitatis intuitu prærogem, vindicabo, aut vitæ perfectæ me esse fateor, cum de vita perfecta alios moneo, sed potius cum hæc ad illos loqui audeo, simul cum illis, quæ loquor, audiam.'PSEUDO-AMBROS. DE DIGNIT. SACERD. L. 1. ad finem.

TO THE

REV. WILLIAM ROSE,

VICAR OF GLYNDE, SUSSEX,

THE FOLLOWING SERMONS

ARE

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.