Transcribed from the 1867 James Parker and Co. edition byDavid Price,
Eight Sermons
ON
THE PRIESTHOOD, ALTAR, AND
SACRIFICE.
BY
MAYOW WYNELL MAYOW, M.A.,
PERPETUALCURATE OF ST. MARY’S, WEST BROMPTON, AND LATE
STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH,OXFORD.
“The principles of Christianity are now asfreely questioned as the most doubtful and controverted points;the grounds of faith are as safely denied as the most unnecessarysuperstructions; that religion hath the greatest advantage whichappeareth in the newest dress, as if we looked for another faithto be delivered to the saints: whereas in Christianity there canbe no concerning truth which is not ancient, and whatsoever istruly new, is certainly false.”—(Bp. Pearson on the Creed: EpistleDedicatory.)
Oxford and London:
JAMES PARKER AND CO.
1867.
p. iiiTOTHE
RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD,
WALTER KERR,
LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY,
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF A CONNECTIONWITH HIS
DIOCESE FOR NEARLY A QUARTER OF ACENTURY,
AS A TOKEN OF REVERENCE FOR HIS OFFICE,AND UNFEIGNED
RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER,
AS SOME LITTLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OFMANY
KINDNESSES RECEIVED,
AND AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HISCONSTANCY
IN DEFENDING THE FAITH IN
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
This Volume
IS (BYPERMISSION) INSCRIBED,
BY HIS LORDSHIP’S VERY FAITHFUL ANDGRATEFUL SERVANT,
M. W. MAYOW.
p.vADVERTISEMENT.
The following Sermons were preachedat St. Mary’s, West Brompton, in November and December,1866. They are now printed as a humble contribution towardsthe defence of the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood, thealtar, and the sacrifice, in days when there seem no limits toassault upon it, when there prevails every conceivable confusionbetween what is Catholic and what is Roman, and when there is thewidest misapprehension of the principles of ourReformation. If this small volume should contribute in anyway to a better understanding of those principles, and to thevindication of the loyalty to our own Church of such as,maintaining its Catholic character, desire equally to be loyal tothe Church Universal, (and believe in truth that there is noantagonism between them,) it will not, I trust, be whollyuseless. If, further, it should lead any, in the spirit ofcandour and of prayer, to give more consideration to thisdoctrine than perhaps hitherto they have done, and especially toconsult larger and more learned work