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NOTE1849

REV. WM. STEPHENS' SERMONS

By WM. DENTON (Shoreditch)

Sir,—Amongst the books wanted in your sixth number is "a Tract or Sermon" of the Rev. Wm. Stephens. It is a sermon, and one of four, all of which are far above the ordinary run of sermons, and deserving of a place in every clergyman's library. They are rarely met with together, though separately they turn up now and then upon book stalls amongst miscellaneous sermons; it is a pity they are not better known, and much is every day republished less deserving of preservation. The author's widow published her husband's sermons in two volumes; but, strange to say, these, which are worth all the rest…

Topics: Sermons, Christian Doctrine, Theology, Anti-Nicene Fathers

Locations: University of Oxford, Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Exeter