A View of the Evidences of Chriftianity at the IN EIGHT SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AT ST. MARY'S, IN THE YEAR MDCCCV. AT THE LECTURE FOUNDED. BY THE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A. CANON OF SALISBURY. BY EDWARD NARES, M. A. RECTOR OF BIDDENDEN, KENT, AND LATE FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD. d. fist at Eviert. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE AUTHOR. SOLD BY J. COOKE, OXFORD; BY MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY, LONDON; AND BY J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE, ΤΟ HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, CHANCELLOR ; TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD ELDON, HIGH STEWARD ; то THE REVEREND THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND HEADS OF COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, (By whofe Appointment the following Sermons were preached ;) TO THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF OXFORD, IN TOKEN OF RESPECT AND VENERATION FOR THE CHIEF MAGISTRATES OF A CITY, WHICH HIS FATHER HAD LONG THE HONOUR OF REPRESENTING IN PARLIAMENT, THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY AND MOST GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY THEIR OBEDIENT AND VERY HUMBLE SERVANT, EDWARD NARES. EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, CANON OF SALISBURY. "I give and bequeath my Lands and "Eftates to the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scholars "of the Univerfity of Oxford for ever, to have "and to hold all and fingular the faid Lands or "Eftates upon truft, and to the intents and pur 66 poses hereinafter- mentioned; that is to fay, I "will and appoint that the Vice-Chancellor of "the University of Oxford for the time being shall "take and receive all the rents, iffues, and pro"fits thereof, and (after all taxes, reparations, and neceffary deductions made) that he pay all the "remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity "Lecture Sermons, to be established for ever in "the faid Univerfity, and to be performed in the "manner following: "I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in Easter Term, a Lecturer be yearly " chosen |
