SUNDAY.

ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PRESENT OBLIGATION

CONSIDERED IN THE

BAMPTON LECTURES

PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

IN THE YEAR 1860.

BY JAMES AUGUSTUS HESSEY, D.C.L.,

ARCHDEACON OF MIDDLESEX,

HON. D.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, U.S.A.

LATE HEADMASTER OF MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, PREACHER AT GRAY'S INN,
GRINFIELD AND BOYLE LECTURER, AND SELECT PREACHER IN THE
UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.

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Fifth Edition.

WITH AN EXCURSUS ON TWO BABYLONIAN DOCUMENTS IN

THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND A COPIOUS INDEX.

CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:

LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK, & MELBOURNE.

1889.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

Son=dayes.

Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of blisse;
Heaven once a week;

The next world's gladness prepossest in this;
A day to seek

Eternity in time; the steps by which

We climb above all ages; Lamps that light
Man through his þexy of dark days; and the rich
And full redemption of the whole week's flight.

The milky way chalkt out with Suns, a clue
That guides through erring hours; and in full story
A taste of Heaven on earth; the pledge and cue
Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory.

HENRY VAUGHAN, 17th Century.

DIES RESURRECTIONIS DOMINICE . . . QUÆ TANTIS DIVINARUM DISPOSITIONUM MYSTERIIS EST CONSECRATA, UT QUICQUID EST A DOMINO INSIGNIUS CONSTITUTUM, IN HUJUS DIEI DIGNITATE SIT GESTUM. IN HAC MUNDUS SUMSIT EXORDIUM. IN HAC PER RESURRECTIONEM CHRISTI ET MORS INTERITUM, ET VITA ACCEPIT INITIUM. IN HAC APOSTOLI A DOMINO PRÆDICANDI OMNIBUS GENTIBUS EVANGELII TUBAM SUMUNT, ET INFERENDUM UNIVERSO MUNDO SACRAMENTUM REGENERATIONIS ACCIPIUNT. IN HAC SICUT BEATUS JOANNES EVANGELISTA TESTATUR, JANUIS CLAUSIS, CUM AD EOS DOMINUS INTROISSET, INSUFFLAVIT, ET DIXIT: ACCIPITE SPIRITUM SANCTUM ; QUORUM REMISERITIS PECCATA, REMITTUNTUR EIS, ET QUORUM DETINUERITIS, DETENTA ERUNT." IN HAC DENIQUE PROMISSUS A DOMINO APOSTOLIS SPIRITUS SANCTUS ADVENIT: UT CELESTI QUADAM REGULA INSINUATUM ET TRADITUM NOVERIMUS IN ILLA DIE CELEBRANDA NOBIS ESSE MYSTERIA SACERDOTALIUM BENEDICTIONUM, IN QUA COLLATA SUNT OMNIA DONA GRATIARUM.

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