The Administration of the

Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ.

EIGHT LECTURES

PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN THE YEAR 1868,

ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A.

OXFORD:

BY T. COMBE, M.A., E. B. GARDNER, E. P. HALL, AND H. LATHAM, M.A.,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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13 MAY1935

PARY

EXTRACT

FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

OF THE LATE

REV. JOHN BAMPTON,

CANON OF SALISBURY.

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"I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of "Oxford for ever, to have and to hold all and singular the " said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to the intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, I will and "appoint that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ox"ford for the time being shall take and receive all the rents, "issues, and profits thereof, and (after all taxes, reparations, "and necessary deductions made) that he pay all the re"mainder to the endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be established for ever in the said University, and "to be performed in the manner following:

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"I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in "Easter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads "of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining "to the Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the "morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity "Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in 66 Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in "Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.