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THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

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THE SPIRIT OF THE

CHRISTIAN LIFE

SERMONS PREACHED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS

BY THE

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REV. STOPFORD A. BROOKE, M.A.

LONDON

C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1881

(The rights of translation and of reproduction

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reserved.)

PREFACE.

THE SERMONS published in this book have been in print for nearly a year, and were intended for much earlier publication; but they were unavoidably delayed, and in the meantime I have left the Church of England on the ground that it is no longer in my power to believe in the miraculous foundation of Christianity. I have not seen the sermons here set forth for months, and I cannot tell whether there may not be statements in them which I should not now modify. I have not time to look over the book now, but I should conjecture that there are very few passages, if any, which would need changing, for I have left the Church not to be less. but more of a Christian. My only

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