Excerpt from Sermons on Various Subjects There has, perhaps, been no age of the Church since the time of St. Augustine, when it has been more necessary than it is at present to bear in mind his own impressive sentence, that true Religion can never rightly be instilled into the soul, except a man is first willing to believe what he will hereafter, if he is found worthy, know and understand; nor can its spirit be imbibed, except by yielding to the severe controul of authority. 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.