Transcribed from the 1866 Hatchard and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org SERMONS FOR THE DAY. * * * * * BY REV. EDWARD HOARE, INCUMBENT OF TRINITY CHURCH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: HATCHARD AND CO. 187 PICCADILLY, Booksellers to H. R. H. the Princess of Wales and the Royal Family. 1866. * * * * * LONDON: STRANGEWAYS AND WALDEN, PRINTERS, 28 Castle St. Leicester Sq. * * * * * TRANSUBSTANTIATION. HEB. x. 12. “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” WE live in very anxious times. Different phases of error are following each other with great rapidity, like waves before the gale on a stormy sea. A very short time ago we were deeply distressed by the sceptical tendencies of certain able writers,—tendencies still in rapid progress, though public attention has been recently directed into another channel. Now we are startled by the open declaration of Romish doctrine, and open practice of Romish ceremonial, by men who have accepted office in a church which declares these very doctrines to be “blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits.” It has become, therefore, absolutely necessary that we should understand the reasons why the Church of England has separated from that of Rome, and why it is that we raise our voice against these innovations. I am well aware that such a subject is distasteful to many minds. Some shrink from the trouble of controversy, and would rather have their whole attention fixed on that which they find helpful to their own souls. Others think it uncharitable; and maintain that, provided a person be conscientious in his practice, we need feel no anxiety about the truth or error of his creed. But I am persuaded that it will not do so to deal with truth. These are days in which we must know what we believe, and why we believe it. If we desire to stand fast, we must know our standing-ground. And if we desire to see our young people growing up as witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ, we must not merely strive to call forth in them a religion of feeling, but must train them in sound Scriptural principles, that they may be able to give an answer to every one who asketh them a reason of the hope that is in them. The Romish question is forced upon us by the enormous efforts which the Church of Rome is making for the recovery of its ancient supremacy in England; and