SERMONS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BY THE LATE REV. HENRY HUTCHINSON SWINNY, M.A., VICAR OF CUDDESDON, AND PRINCIPAL OF THE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE; WITH A PREFACE BY THE LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD. OXFORD and LONDON: JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. 1865. 100. g. 97. BID CONTENTS. PROPHECY ITS VALUE.-2 St. Peter i. 19. PROPHECY ITS INTERPRETATION.- -2 St. Peter i. 20, 21 PREFACE. THE HESE Sermons are published with one disadvantage, which belongs of necessity to every posthumous publication: they are selected by other hands than those of their writer, and they have never received his final corrections. Yet, on the other hand, such sermons come with a claim upon the attention of the reader which is in some sort peculiar to themselves. For, first, they have that peculiar freshness which belongs to what has been thrown off from the living heart and mind of the composer, without having passed through those slower processes of revision which often destroy quite as much of vigorous originality of conception as they add of exact accuracy of expression. And, secondly, such addresses come with the solemnity of appeal which belongs to |
