Excerpt from The Responsibility of Intellect in Matters of Faith: A Sermon, Preached Before the University of Oxford, on Advent Sunday, 1872; With an Appendix on Bishop Moberly's Strictures on the Warning Clauses of the Athanasian Creed God, in this close of the expiring year, preaches death, at once in the world and in the Church, to the eye of sight and to the eye of faith, by sights of nature and the tempered beauty of its calm decay, by the enforced thought of those who, in this little division of our being, have been parted from us and have said, each in his turn, to us. 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.