SERMONS

ON THE

MISSION AND CHARACTER OF CHRIST,

AND ON

THE BEATITUDES.

ON THE

MISSION AND CHARACTER OF CHRIST,

AND ON

THE BEATITUDES:

COMPREHENDING WHAT WERE PREACHED

BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN THE YEAR MDCCCIII.

AT THE LECTURE

FOUNDED BY THE LATE JOHN BAMPTON, M. A.

CANON OF SALISBURY:

BY JOHN FARRER, M. A.

OF Queen's COLLEGE,

RECTOR OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF
ST. CLEMENT EASTCHEAP AND ST. MARTIN ORGARS,

LONDON.

OXFORD:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOR THE AUTHOR ;
SOLD BY J. COOKE, OXFORD ; AND BY F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

$T, PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON,

1804.

TO

THE RIGHT REVEREND

GEORGE

LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN,

AND

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHURCH,

LONDON.

MY LORD,

IN publishing these Discourses I am prompted by a powerful motive to the liberty now taken of inscribing them to your Lordship. It was by a former Work of a kindred nature that I had first the happiness of engaging your notice: And I am anxious to embrace the opportunity thus afforded, of making my public acknowledgement for the creditable station in which you have lately placed me. The value of your Patronage is to me much enhanced by the consideration, that