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Preached before the University of Oxford,

at St. Mary's, Dec. 12, 1773, being the
third Sunday in Advent.

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Preached before the Univerfity of Oxford,

at St. Mary's, Dec. 27, 1768, being the
Festival of St. John the Evangelift.

DISCOURSE XI.

The Circumcifion.

LUKE ii. 21.

And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcifing of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was fo named of the angel, before he was conceived in the womb.

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Preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, Jan. 1, 1763, being the Festival of the Circumcifion.

DISCOURSE XII.

The Epiphany.

MATTH. ii. 1, 2.

Now when Jefus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, bebold, there came wife men from the east to

Jerufalem,

Jerufalem, faying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen bis ftar in the east, and are come to worShip him

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Preached before the Univerfity of Oxford, at St. Mary's, Jan. 6, 1772, being the Festival of the Epiphany.

DISCOURSE I.

THE CREATION OF MAN.

GENESIS I. 26.

And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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I.

URIOSITY naturally prompts us DISC. to enquire into the records of the family, or fociety, to which we belong. Every little incident, that befel our anceftors, is collected with care, and remembered with pleafure. The relation it bears to us gives it confequence in our eyes, though, in the eyes of others, it may feem The mind, in it's progress,

to have none.

finds attention excited, as the velocity of a

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