TO THE RIGHT REVEREND AND REVEREND THE HEADS OF COLLEGES, THE FOLLOWING SERMONS, PREACHED AT THEIR APPOINTMENT, ARE INSCRIBED, WITH GREAT RESPECT, BY THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, CANON OF SALISBURY. "I give and bequeath my Lands and "Eftates to the Chancellor, Masters, and "Scholars of the University of Oxford for "ever, to have and to hold all and fingular "the faid Lands or Eftates upon truft, and to "the intents and purposes hereinafter men tioned; 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 (vi) "receive all the rents, iffues, and profits thereof, and (after all reparations and neceffary deductions made) that he pay all "the remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be establish"ed for ever in the faid University, and to "be performed in the manner following: "I direct and appoint, that, upon the first "Tuesday in Eafter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chofen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room ad"joining 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. 66 Mary's in Oxford, between the commence"ment of the last month in Lent Term, and "the end of the third week in Act Term. “Also 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 |