ON THE MISSION AND CHARACTER OF CHRIST, AND ON THE BEATITUDES: COMPREHENDING WHAT WERE PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, IN THE YEAR MDCCCIII. AT THE LECTURE FOUNDED BY THE LATE JOHN BAMPTON, M. A. CANON OF SALISBURY: BY JOHN FARRER, M. A. OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, RECTOR OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF ST. CLEMENT EASTCHEAP AND ST. MARTIN ORGARS, LONDON. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOR THE AUTHOR ; SOLD BY J. COOKE, OXFORD; AND BY F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, 1804. BOD ΤΟ THE RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN, AND DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHURCH, LONDON. MY LORD, IN publishing these Discourses I am prompted by a powerful motive to the liberty now taken of infcribing them to your Lordship. It was by a former Work of a kindred nature that I had first the happiness of engaging your notice: And I am anxious to embrace the opportunity thus afforded, of making my public acknowledgement for the creditable station in which you have lately placed me. The value of your Patronage is to me much enhanced by the confideration, that |