TO THE RIGHT REVEREND AND REVEREND THE HEADS OF COLLEGES, THESE SERMONS, PREACHED AT THEIR APPOINTMENT ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. Extract from the laft Will and Teftament of the late Reverend JOHN BAMPTON, Canon of Salisbury. "I give and bequeath my Lands and "Eftates to the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scho"lars of the Univerfity of Oxford for ever, to "have and to hold all and fingular the faid "Lands or Eftates upon truft, and to the in"tents and purposes hereafter mentioned; that, "is to fay, I will and appoint, that the Vice"Chancellor of the University of Oxford for "the time being shall take and receive all the "rents, iffues, and profits thereof, and (after "all reparations, and neceffary deductions made) "that he pay all the remainder to the endow"ment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be established forever in the faid University, "and to be performed in the manner following: "I direct and appoint, that, upon the first "Tuesday in Easter Term, a Lecturer be yearly "chofen by the Heads of Colleges only, and "by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-Houfe, between the hours of ten in "the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, be"tween the commencement of the laft month "in Lent Term, and the end of the third "week in Act Term. "Alfo I direct and appoint, that the eight "Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached "upon either of the following fubjects-to "confirm and establish the Chriftian Faith, "and to confute all heretics and fchifmatics " upon the divine authority of the Holy Scrip"tures upon the authority of the writings of "the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and "practice of the primitive Church-upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift 66 -upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghoft— upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the Apostles' and Nicene "Creeds. 66 "Also I direct, that thirty copies of the eight "Divinity Lecture Sermons fhall be always "printed, within two months after they are "preached, and one copy fhall be given to the "Chancellor of the University, and one copy to "the Head of every College, and one copy to "the Mayor of the City of Oxford, and one copy to be put into the Bodleian Library; "and the expence of printing them shall be paid out of the revenue of the Lands or Eftates "given for establishing the Divinity Lecture "Sermons; and the Preacher shall not be paid, 66 nor |