NOTE. In order to prevent the possibility of misunderstanding, it is proper to repeat what has been often said by others, that the English word "priest" has two significations, the one, according to its etymology, through the French prêtre, or prestre, and the Latin presbyterus, from the Greek TрεσẞÚTEроs; in which sense it is used in our Liturgy and Rubrics, and signifies merely "one belonging to the order of Presbyters," as distinguished from the other two orders of bishops and dea cons. But the other signification of the word "priest," and which we use, as I think, more commonly, is the same with the meaning of the Latin word sacerdos, and the Greek word iepes, and means, one who stands as a mediator between God and the people, and brings them to God by the virtue of certain ceremonial acts which he performs for them, and which they could not perform for themselves without profanation, because they are at a distance from God, and cannot, in their own persons, venture to approach towards him." In this sense of the word "priest," the term is not applied to the ministers of the Christian church, either by the Scripture, or by the authorized formularies of the Church of England; although, in the other sense, as synonymous with Presbyters, it is used in our Prayer Book repeatedly. Of course, not one word of what I have written is meant to deny the lawfulness and importance of the order of Presbyters in the church: I have only spoken against a priesthood, in the other sense of the word, in which a "priest" means "a mediator between God and man ;"-in that sense, in short, in which the word is not a translation of πρεσβύτερος, but of ἱερεύς. CONTENTS. 1 COR. xiii. 11.-When I was a child I spake as a child, 1 COR. xiii. 11.-When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. . 22 COL. i. 9.-We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. SERMON V. COL. i. 9.-We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. SERMON VI. COL. iii. 3.-Ye are dead, and your life is hid with PAGE 32 43 . 54 SERMON VII. 1 COR. iii. 21-23.-All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's 65 SERMON VIII. GAL. v. 16, 17.—Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 76 LUKE XIV. 33.-Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple PAGE 88 SERMON X. 1 TIM. i. 9. The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane. 99 SERMON XI. LUKE xxi. 36.-Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man . 110 SERMON XII. PROV. i. 28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me SERMON XIII. MARK Xii. 34.-Thou art not far from the kingdom of God 121 133 SERMON XIV. Matî. xxii, 14.—For many are called, but few are chosen 145 |