THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION CONSIDERED AS INTRODUCTORY TO CHRISTIANITY. EIGHT SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AT THE BAMPTON LECTURE FOR THE YEAR MDCCCLVI. BY THE REV. EDWARD ARTHUR LITTON, M.A. LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE. Novum Testamentum in vetere velabatur: vetus Testamentum in novo LONDON, T. HATCHARD, 187, PICCADILLY: H. HAMMANS, (LATE GRAHAM,) oxford. TO THE HEADS OF COLLEGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD THE FOLLOWING SERMONS PREACHED BY THEIR APPOINTMENT ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, CANON OF SALISBURY. I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates to "the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University "cf Oxford for ever, to have and to hold all and singular "the said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to the intents "and purposes hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, "I will and appoint, that the Vice-Chancellor of the "University of Oxford for the time being shall take "and receive all the rents, issues, and profits thereof, "and (after all taxes, reparations, and necessary deductions "made) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment "of Eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be established "for ever in the said 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 chosen by the "Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, between the hours "of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to 'preach Eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year fol"lowing, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the "end of the third week in Act Term. b. |