Sir,--Amongst the books wanted in your sixth number is "a Tract or
Sermon" of the Rev. Wm. Stephens. It is a sermon, and one of four, all
of which are far above the ordinary run of sermons, and deserving of a
place in every clergyman's library. They are rarely met with together,
though separately they turn up now and then upon book stalls amongst
miscellaneous sermons; it is a pity they are not better known, and much
is every day republished less deserving of preservation. The author's
widow published her husband's sermons in two volumes; but, strange to
say, these, which are worth all the rest, are not included in the
collection. The titles of the four sermons are--
"The Personality and Divinity of the Holy Ghost proved from
Scripture, and the Anti-Nicene Fathers." Preached before the
University of Oxford, St. Matthias' Day, 1716-17. Third Edition,
1725.
"The Catholic Doctrine concerning the Union of the Two Natures in
the One Person of Christ stated and vindicated." Preached at the
visitation of the Bishop of Oxford, 1719. Second Edition, 1722.
"The Divine Persons One God by an Unity of Nature: or, That Our
Saviour is One God with His Father, by an External Generation from
His Substance, asserted from Scripture and the Anti-Nicene
Fathers." Preached before the University of Oxford, 1722. Second
Edition, 1723.
"The Several Heterodox Hypotheses, concerning both the Persons and
the Attributes of the Godhead, justly chargeable with more
inconsistencies and Absurdities than those which have been
groundlessly imputed to the Catholic system." Preached at the
visitation of the Bishop of Exeter, 1724.
I shall be glad to learn from any of your readers whether the author
published any other sermons or tracts which are not included in the two
volumes of his sermons.