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The Collected Works of John Henry Newman (31 Vols.) includes over two hundred fifty sermons from Newman. Newman's professional career spanned nearly seventy years, during which time he held the position of vicar at Oriel College, Oxford, rector of University College, Dublin, priest at Birmingham Oratory and was appointed to the college of Cardinals in 1879. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Sermons...

the kind of questions with which arrogant and profane minds do assail the revealed doctrine of the Holy Trinity. 3. Further consider what a strange state we are in when we dream, and how difficult it would he to convey to a person who had never dreamed what was meant by dreaming. His vocabulary would contain no words to express any middle idea between perfect possession and entire suspension of the mind’s powers. He would understand what it was to be awake, what it was to be insensible; but a state
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