A

COLLECTION

OF

SERMONS

ON

SEVERAL SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS,

PARTICULARLY ON THE

FESTIVALS AND FASTS

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

BY THE

REV. SIR ADAM GORDON, BART. M.A.

LATE OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, AND RECTOR OF WEST-TILEURY, ESSEX.

"No doubt, as God's extraordinary prefence, hath hallowed certain places,
fo his extraordinary works have as justly attached respect to certain times;
for which reafon, they who truly honour God, ought ever to hold thefe times
more holy than other days,"
HOOKER, Eccl. Pol. Book v.

"Quæ toto terrarum orbe fervantur, vel ab ipfis Apoftolis, vel
"Conciliis generalibus, quorum est faluberrima in Ecclefia auctoritas, ftatuta
"effe intelligere licet; ficuti quod Domini Paffio, et Refurrectio, et in
"Cœlum Afcenfus, et Adventus Spiritus Sancti, anniversaria folennitate
"celebrarentur."
Auguft. Epift.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY.

1796.

0.145.

BIBLI

TO THE

REVEREND JOSEPH ATWELL SMALL, D.D.

RECTOR OF ST. JAMES'S AND ST. PAUL'S, BRISTOL,