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THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH

IN TIMES OF TRIAL:

A CHARGE TO THE CLERGY

OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LEWES,

DELIVERED AT THE ORDINARY VISITATION IN 1848;

WITH NOTES,

ESPECIALLY ON THE CONTROVERSY TOUCHING THE MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS,
AND ON THE JEWISH QUESTION,

BY JULIUS CHARLES HARE, M.A.

LONDON:

JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND:

SOLD BY MACMILLAN, CAMBRIDGE.

1848.

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TO THE CLERGY

OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LEWES.

MY DEAR Brethren,

ACCORDING to common rule, the publication of this Charge ought to follow that of its predecessors; and unhappily I am already three-deep in your debt. But, as the subjects treated of in this are of immediate practical interest, you exprest a wish at the Visitation, that it should not be kept back till a period, which you seemed to think almost as indeterminate and distant as the Greek Calends. You said, it ought to come out now, while the controversies, on which it speaks, and which it attempts to clear up and allay, are going on. With this your wish I have felt bound to comply, adding some Notes, where it seemed desirable to enter more fully into the argument on certain points of detail, than was practicable in the Charge. In this breach of order, I am only falling in with the fashion of the year, in which, in so many unforseen, unheard-of ways, the last has become first; in which too it has been exemplified, how that inversion of earthly order, which, we are told, will often have place in

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