Eight Sermons on the Priesthood, Altar, and Sacrifice

Transcribed from the 1867 James Parker and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
BY MAYOW WYNELL MAYOW, M.A.,
PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. MARY’S, WEST BROMPTON, AND LATE STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD.
“The principles of Christianity are now as freely questioned as the most doubtful and controverted points; the grounds of faith are as safely denied as the most unnecessary superstructions; that religion hath the greatest advantage which appeareth in the newest dress, as if we looked for another faith to be delivered to the saints: whereas in Christianity there can be no concerning truth which is not ancient, and whatsoever is truly new, is certainly false.”—(Bp. Pearson on the Creed: Epistle Dedicatory .)
Oxford and London : JAMES PARKER AND CO. 1867.
TO THE RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD, WALTER KERR, LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY, IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF A CONNECTION WITH HIS DIOCESE FOR NEARLY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, AS A TOKEN OF REVERENCE FOR HIS OFFICE, AND UNFEIGNED RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER, AS SOME LITTLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MANY KINDNESSES RECEIVED, AND AS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HIS CONSTANCY IN DEFENDING THE FAITH IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,
This Volume
IS (BY PERMISSION) INSCRIBED, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S VERY FAITHFUL AND GRATEFUL SERVANT,
M. W. MAYOW.
The following Sermons were preached at St. Mary’s, West Brompton, in November and December, 1866. They are now printed as a humble contribution towards the defence of the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood, the altar, and the sacrifice, in days when there seem no limits to assault upon it, when there prevails every conceivable confusion between what is Catholic and what is Roman, and when there is the widest misapprehension of the principles of our Reformation. If this small volume should contribute in any way to a better understanding of those principles, and to the vindication of the loyalty to our own Church of such as, maintaining its Catholic character, desire equally to be loyal to the Church Universal, (and believe in truth that there is no antagonism between them,) it will not, I trust, be wholly useless. If, further, it should lead any, in the spirit of candour and of prayer, to give more consideration to this doctrine than perhaps hitherto they have done, and especially to consult larger and more learned works upon the subject, I shall have great additional reason to be thankful.