Discourses to Mixed Congregations
John Henry Newman

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  1. The Salvation of the Hearer the Motive of the Preacher       1.
  2. Neglect of Divine Calls and Warnings    22.
  3. Men, not Angels, the Priests of the Gospel    43.
  4. Purity and Love    62.
  5. Saintliness the Standard of Christian Principle    83.
  6. God's Will the End of Life  104.
  7. Perseverance in Grace  124.
  8. Nature and Grace  145.
  9. Illuminating Grace  169.
10.  Faith and Private Judgment  192.
11. Faith and Doubt  214.
12. Prospects of the Catholic Missioner  238.
13. Mysteries of Nature and of Grace  260.
14. The Mystery of Divine Condescension  284.
15. The Infinitude of the Divine Attributes  305.
16. Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion  323.
17. The Glories of Mary for the Sake of Her Son  342.
18. On the Fitness of the Glories of Mary  360.

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Dedication

TO THE
RIGHT REV. NICHOLAS WISEMAN, D.D.,
BISHOP OF MELIPOTAMUS,
AND VICAR APOSTOLIC OF THE LONDON DISTRICT,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

MY DEAR LORD,
{v} I present for your Lordship's kind acceptance and patronage the first work which I publish as a Father of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. I have a sort of claim upon your permission to do so, as a token of my affection and gratitude toward your Lordship, since it is to you principally that I owe it, under God, that I am a client and subject, however unworthy, of so great a Saint.

When I found myself a Catholic, I also found myself in your Lordship's district; and, at your suggestion, I first moved into your immediate neighbourhood, and then, when your Lordship further desired it, I left you for Rome. There it was my blessedness to be allowed to offer myself, with the {vi} condescending approval of the Holy Father, to the service of St. Philip, of whom I had so often heard you speak before I left England, and whose bright and beautiful character had won my devotion, even when I was a Protestant.

You see then, my dear Lord, how much you have to do with my present position in the Church. But your concern with it is greater than I have yet stated; for I cannot forget that when, in the year 1839, a doubt first crossed my mind of the tenableness of the theological theory on which Anglicanism is based, it was caused in no slight degree by the perusal of a controversial paper, attributed to your Lordship, on the schism of the Donatists.

That the glorious intercession of St. Philip may be the reward of your faithful devotion to himself, and of your kindness to me, is,
My dear Lord,
while I ask your Lordship's blessing on me and mine,
the earnest prayer of
Your affectionate friend and servant,
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,
OF THE ORATORY.

In Fest. S. Caroli,
1849.

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DISCOURSES

ADDRESSED TO

MIXED CONGREGATIONS

 BY

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

 

NEW IMPRESSION

 

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY

1906

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