PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND PRINTED CHIEFLY BETWEEN A.D. 1843-1855, Now collected into One Volume. BY THE REV. E. B. PUSEY, D.D. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF HEBREW, AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH. TURN THEE AGAIN, THOU GOD OF HOSTS, LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN; NEW EDITION. SOLD BY JAMES PARKER & CO., OXFORD, AND RIVINGTONS, LONDON, OXFORD, AND CAMBRIDGE. MDCCCLXXIX. 1987 193226 PREFACE. The following sermons (except an early sermon, on the appointment of the then vice-Chancellor) were preached before the University and printed during a period of 13 years and under different circumstances. The three first, the first on the Holy Eucharist, and the two on "the Entire Absolution of the penitent," were part of a series of sermons, preached at a time when the minds of the young men had been stirred up by an earnest teaching of repentance. They were, with others, intended to comfort them amid the sense of past deep, but repented sin. The two first sermons of this series were 1) on the unfathomable mercies of God in Christ; the abyss of mercy contained in that great mystery, that, for us sinners and for our salvation, God became Man. 2) The continual Intercession of our Lord, God-Man, at the Right Hand of God. These, as well as the two last of the series, on God's acceptance of deeds of love to the bodies and souls of Christ's members, I was about to publish some years since, when a desk which contained them was stolen from me. After this, there followed a time, when the minds of many of our younger members were distracted in regard |