Excerpt from The Destiny of the Creature: And Other Sermons; Preached Before the University of Cambridge The first four of the following sermons were preached by me before the University of Cambridge during the month of March, 1858, in the capacity of Select Preacher for that month. The fifth and sixth sermons were preached before the same honourable audience, the former in the morning of one of the Sundays in Lent, 1856, on one of the turns of my own College: the latter on the morning of Commencement Sunday, 1857, at the request of the Vice-chancellor. These two sermons are here added, partly in tardy compliance with a wish expressed at the time that they should be published, partly, and more especially, because they both illustrate, and are illustrated by, the Course with which they are associated. On the suggestion of friends, a few hastily gathered notes are appended to the whole; as it was considered that the subjects which are here discussed are all of a kind that require this further mode of illustration. In justice, however, to myself, I feel it right to say, that as the sermons were not written with a view to publication, no record was kept of the many sources from which the opinions expressed in them were derived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.