FIVE SERMONS PREACHED IN THE PRINCIPAL CHURCHES OF HIS DIOCESE, DURING HIS SPRING VISITATION, 1844. BY THE RT. REV. L. SILLIMAN IVES, D. D., LL. D., GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-ST. MDCCCXLIV. ANDOVER-HARWARD THEOLOGICAL LILGARY H79,382 ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York. 882 Ives д Widence TO THE RT. REV. L. SILLIMAN IVES, D. D., BISHOP OF NORTH CAROLINA. RT. REV AND DEAR SIR: Washington, N. C., May 27th, 1844. We have been appointed by the Convention of this Diocese, whose session has just closed, to communicate to you the unanimous request of the Convention, that you will consent to the publication of the five Sermons which you have recently preached in the principal Churches of this Diocese. We cannot forbear to add the expression of the high satisfaction with which we listened to these discourses, and of our conviction that the publication of them will be of eminent service to the cause of Christ and His Church. We are, Rt. Rev. and dear Sir, Most respectfully and affectionately, Your Brethren in Christ. F. M. HUBBARD, R. S. MASON, J. SINGLETARY, S. J. JOHNSTON, TO THE REV. MESSRS. HUBBARD, MASON, &c., &c. DEAR BRETHREN : Raleigh, June 2d, 1844. In communicating to you, under shelter of your too favorable judgment, my consent to the publication of my five discourses, I feel it my duty to remind you of a wish expressed by me to the Convention, that no pecuniary responsibility, on this account, should be incurred by the Diocese ; but that all risk of the publication should devolve upon the Author. My object in preparing these discourses, was to do what I might, by the help of God, to protect His truth from harm at this time of extraordinary confusion on matters of Faith; a confusion growing out of unfounded and indiscriminate charges against Church-Catholic doctrine, as Romish heresy; |