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Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief, Preached before the University of Oxford is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

being the refuge of disappointed mercy, as well as a warning addressed to all whom they might concern. “Wisdom is justified of her children:” as if He said, “There is no act on God’s part, no truth of religion, to which a captious Reason may not find objections; and in truth the evidence and matter of Revelation are not addressed to the mere unstable Reason of man, nor can hope for any certain or adequate reception with it. Divine wisdom speaks not to the world, but to her own children, or those
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