THE DOCTRINE OF RETRIBUTION: EIGHT LECTURES PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, IN THE YEAR 1875, ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE LATE JOHN BAMPTON, M.A, CANON OF SALISBURY. BY WILLIAM JACKSON, M.A., F.S.A., (Formerly Fellow of Worcester College,) AUTHOR OF "THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL THEOLOGY," "POSITIVISM," London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXV, 66 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 of 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 estab❝lished 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 may be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges "only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing 66 House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the "afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, 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. "Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons "shall be preached upon either of the following subjects :—to confirm "and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and "schismatics-upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures— upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to "the faith and practice of the primitive Church-upon the Divinity 66 |