TO THE REVEREND THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND HEADS OF COLLEGES; THE FOLLOWING SERMONS, PREACHED BY THEIR APPOINTMENT, A RE WITH ALL DUE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE INSCRIBED BY THEIR MUCH OBLIGED AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, GEORGE CROFT. Extract from the laft Will and Teftament of the late Reverend JOHN BAMPTON, Canon of Salisbury. "I give and bequeath my Lands "and Eftates to the Chancellor, Mafters, "and Scholars of the Univerfity of Oxford "for ever, to have and to hold all and fin"gular the faid Lands or Eftates upon truft, "and to the intents and purposes herein after "mentioned; that is to fay, I will and ap point, that the Vice Chancellor of the "University of Oxford for the time being "fhall take and receive all the rents, iffues, "and profits thereof, and (after all taxes, reparations, and necessary deductions made). "that he pay all the remainder to the en"dowment of eight Divinity Lecture Ser"mons, to be eftablished for ever in the faid University, and to be performed in the "manner following: "I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in Eafter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chofen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room ad 'joining to the Printing-Houfe, between "the "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 com"mencement of the laft month in Lent "Term, and the end of the third week in "Act Term. 66 "Alfo I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons fhall be preach"ed upon either of the following subjects "to confirm and establish the Christian "Faith, and to confute all heretics and fchif "matics-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 upon the Divinity of our Lord "and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost-upon the Articles "of the Chriftian Faith, as comprehended "in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds. "Church "Also I direct, that thirty copies of the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be "always printed, within two months after they are preached, and one copy fhall be given to the Chancellor of the University, "and one copy to the Head of every Col 66 |