ON THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST OUR LORD PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN LENT 1844. BY W. H. MILL, D.D., LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, AND CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. PUBLISHED BY J. AND J. J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE: M.DCCC.XLIV. PREFACE. THE following sermons are published at the solicitation of some distinguished members of the Academic body to which they were addressed. And in consequence of a particular wish expressed by some of the junior members, for more specific information on topics opened in the second and third discourses, the notes have been added; which have grown to an unexpected magnitude. With the exception of one sentence towards the end, which is distinguished by brackets, none beyond trifling verbal variations will be found from the sermons as preached. To avoid all more considerable differences, some parts continue to be suppressed which had been originally written, (particularly on the argument concerning the tentability of the perfect man in p. 37,) but of which the usual limits of homiletical addresses had prevented the delivery. To some few among the possible readers of this volume, it planation to state, preached by desire may be a requisite ex that in a Lent Course of the late Bishop James in the cathedral church of Calcutta, the Author took the same subject for the six discourses then delivered; several passages of which (especially from the last but one of the number,) are also found here. But notwithstanding this, and the absence of all material change of sentiment in the interval, the composition and arrangement of these University Sermons, and the mode of treating the principal doctrinal parts, are new. CAMBRIDGE, May 18, 1844. CONTENTS. And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and Objective character of Christianity, p. 1-exemplified in the use of Sacred Seasons, 8-The Lenten Subject of Christ's Temptation propounded and divided, 12-Explicit Orthodoxy how and wherefore necessary, 16-24. |