THE

LIMITS OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

E X A MIN E D

IN

EIGHT LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF

OXFORD, IN THE YEAR MDCCCLVIII.,

ON

The Bampton Foundation.

BY

HENRY LONGUEVILLE MANSEL, B. D.,

R

DER IN MORAL AND MI

AL LOS PHY AT MAGDALEN COLLEGE;
TUTOR AND LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.

FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD LONDON, EDITION.

WITH THE NOTES TRANSLATED.

BOSTON:
G OU L D A N D L IN CO LN,

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

GOULD AND LINCOLN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

..."I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford for ever, to have and

to hold all and singular the said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to the

intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, I will and

appoint that the Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the time

being shall take and receive all the rents, issues, and profits thereof, and

(after all taxes, reparations, and necessary deductions made) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons,

to be established for ever in the said University, and to be performed in

the manner following:

“I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in Easter Term, a

Lecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no

others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, between 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