By the same Author. ON SALE. FOUR SERMONS on the PARABLE OF THE SOWER, chiefly for the Young. Preached before the University of Cambridge. Cloth, 2s. 6d. LECTURES on the DECALOGUE. Cloth; 2s. 6d. SERMON on the FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. with copious Notes. 1s. MARIOLATRY of the CHURCH OF ROME; a LECTURE. 1s. ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH; a SERMON. 6d. VISITATION SERMON. 1s. FOR EVER, and other DEVOTIONAL POEMS, Silk, 2s. 6d. THE REV. C. S. BIRD, M.A., F.L.S., CANON OF LINCOLN, VICAR OF GAINSBOROUGH, AND LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY AUTHOR OF "PLEA FOR THE REFORMED CHURCH," AND "DEFENCE HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; SEELEYS, FLEET-STREET; MDCCCLI. PREFACE. THE following Lectures are not submitted to the public without having undergone a careful revision. The first two are the enlargement of a single one. Extensive Notes have been added, to prove or illustrate what is affirmed in the Lectures, and to guide to the best books connected with the present Controversy. If the reader is possessed of the Works of our great elder Divines,—such as Jewel's Apology and the Defence, Stillingfleet's Works, Jeremy Taylor's Dissuasive, Bishop Hall's No Peace with Rome, Barrow on the Supremacy, Usher's Answer to a Jesuit, Chillingworth's Religion of Protestants a Safe Way, and Bishop Gibson's Preservative, he has a library ready made. If not, let him procure such of these as he can; and add to them, Bishop Marsh's Comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome,-all or any of |