SERMONS

PREACHED IN COUNTRY CHURCHES.

BY

R. DRUMMOND B. RAWNSLEY, M.A.

VICAR OF SHIPLAKE, OXON.

LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, AUTHOR OF
SERMONS," "SERMONS, CHIEFLY CATECHETICAL," ETC.

"VILLAGE

LONDON:

THOMAS HATCHARD, 187 PICCADILLY,

MDCCCLVIII.

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4.184.

ΤΟ

LADY FRANKLIN,

IN ADMIRATION OF HER SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE,

AND HEROIC DEVOTION TO WHAT SHE REGARDS AS A CHIEF

DUTY,

This Volume

IS,

WITH MUCH RESPECTFUL SYMPATHY AND AFFECTION,

INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I

THE NEW YEAR.

2 COR. v. 17.-" Old things are passed away; behold, all

things are become new"

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SERMON II.

THE HOLY INNOCENTS.

ST. MATT. ii. 16.—“Then Herod, when he saw that he

was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and

sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,

and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under,

according to the time which he had diligently inquired of

the wise men

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SERMON III.

THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES.

ST. LUKE, xii. 1.-" Beware ye of the leaven of the Phari-

sees, which is hypocrisy"

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