PAROCHIAL SERMONS. BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, M.A. VICAR OF ST. MARY THE VIRGin's, oxford, AND FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE. VOL. II. FOR THE FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH. "Well to celebrate these Religious and Sacred Days, is to spend the flower of our time SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL; & J. H. PARKER, OXFORD. ADVERTISEMENT. SOME explanation may be necessary by way of introducing the Reader to the Sermons contained in this Volume. It has been the writer's practice upon Festivals, in the course of the Morning Service appointed for each, to read a short Lecture. When he applied himself to prepare these Lectures for the press, he found that some of them required re-writing, and others enlarging; while those which belonged to the Sunday Festivals necessarily varied in length and style from such as had been read on Week-days. The consequence has been, that what was originally a series abrupt and incomplete in point of composition, is now wanting also in uniformity of character, without, in many cases, becoming exempt from its first defect. Moreover, the circumstances under which it was written, have occasioned, in some places, a particularity of |