FOR THE CHURCH'S SEASONS FROM ADVENT TO TRINITY SELECTED FROM THE PUBLIshed serMONS OF THE LATE EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY, D.D., CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH AND PROFESSOR OF HEBREW IN THE LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1883. 100 bb 210 PREFACE. THIS Volume of Sermons is an offering to the Church, from the only surviving child of their venerable and revered Author; more especially to those to whom the complete series of his sermons would be inaccessible, and to whom a course of reading chosen from amongst them, may be welcome, adapted to the Church's seasons, in one moderate sized volume, where there might yet be found the fulness of his witness to Catholic doctrine and Gospel truth. The difficulty in the task of selection has been, in deciding, not what to take, but what to leave; and the Editor cannot venture to hope that his choice has always been the best. Probably no two minds would choose the same. The limitations imposed by the size and price of the present volume, have made it necessary to restrict the contents to sermons applicable to the first, òr doctrinal half of the Christian year, and also to omit the long and valuable notes appended to many of the sermons, so valuable and so eminently characteristic of their great Author, that they are left out with much regret. The sermons from which the following selection has been made, may be classed under three heads: first, University |