THE COMMISSION AND CONSEQUENT DUTIES OF

THE CLERGY;

IN A

SERIES OF DISCOURSES

PREACHED BEFORE THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

IN APRIL, MDCCCXXVI.

BY

HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE;

ONE OF THE SELECT PREACHERS FOR THAT YEAR.

• The ministry of things divine is a function which, as God did himself institute,
so neither may men undertake the same but by authority and power given them
in lawful manner.'-HOOKER, V. 77.

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Nec prærogativam mihimet scientiæ, si hæc meis consacerdotibus charitatis intuitu prærogem, vindicabo, aut vitæ perfectæ me esse fateor, cum de vita perfecta alios moneo, sed potius cum hæc ad illos loqui audeo, simul cum illis quæ loquor, audiam.'— PSEUDO-AMBROS. DE DIGNIT. SACRED. L. 1. ad finem.

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