F. D. Maurice

Sermons Preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel

Volume II

This text
New edition, in six volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
Length
101,000 words, about 7 hours' reading

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This volume gathers Maurice’s preaching from Easter 1857 toward Advent, in a year shadowed by the Indian Mutiny, by Roman controversy, and by the restless question of what the Church of England is for. Maurice takes the era’s sharpest quarrels (Protestant and Catholic, science and faith, law and grace) and, instead of declaring a winner, digs beneath both sides to a forgotten common ground.

Underneath everything runs one conviction: God is not an accuser to be appeased but a Father who has already claimed the whole human family in Christ, and our task is not to win His favour but to stop denying the relationship we are already in.

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. List of the Sermons
  3. First Sunday after Easter
  4. Second Sunday after Easter
  5. Third Sunday after Easter
  6. Fourth Sunday after Easter
  7. Rogation Sunday
  8. Sunday after Ascension Day
  9. Whit-Sunday
  10. Trinity Sunday
  11. First Sunday after Trinity
  12. Second Sunday after Trinity
  13. Third Sunday after Trinity
  14. Fourth Sunday after Trinity
  15. Fifth Sunday after Trinity
  16. Sixth Sunday after Trinity
  17. Seventh Sunday after Trinity
  18. Day of Humiliation
  19. Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
  20. St. Luke’s Day
  21. Twentieth Sunday after Trinity
  22. All Saints’ Day
  23. Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity
  24. Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
  25. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity

About this digital edition

How the text was made, and the printer's errors corrected

The original book

Sermons, Volume 2 by Frederick Denison Maurice.

This edition

Produced 2026-09-22 from a page scan of the printed book, as part of a project to make F. D. Maurice’s works freely available in every useful digital form. The guiding principle throughout was fidelity to the printed text: Maurice’s own spelling, capitalization, punctuation, ligatures, and typography rule, except where a printing error was identified and deliberately emended (each such change is listed below).

How this text was made

The transcription pipeline combines automated tools, AI models, and page-by-page human review:

  • OCR and conversion. The scan was OCRed (ocrmypdf/Tesseract) and converted to structured text (marker), then cleaned by a language model (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) working chunk by chunk.
  • Human review of every machine change. Every word the cleanup model altered was reviewed against an image of the printed line. Footnotes were verified against the printed page and renumbered uniformly.
  • Quotation marks were normalized to the printer’s own conventions and validated by a nesting checker; every remaining irregularity was inspected against the page image. The final text has fully paired quotation marks.
  • Italics were restored (the OCR text layer records none) by a vision model (claude-sonnet-5) cross-checked against a deterministic measurement of letterform slant on the page images, with per-word statistical calibration derived from the book itself. Every page was then reviewed by a human editor against the print. This edition carries 329 italic spans.
  • Small capitals and ligatures (æ, œ) are reproduced as printed.
  • A whole-book audit (claude-sonnet-5) checked structure, headings, footnotes, and Greek; its findings were reviewed by a human editor against the print before any were applied.

The text contains 0 footnotes and 99 small-caps renderings of the print.

Emendations

Places where this edition deliberately differs from the printed book, each a correction of an apparent printing error, verified against the page image:

  • p. 29: ‘twelth’ → ‘twelfth’
  • p. 37: ‘convictions, and and’ → ‘convictions, and’
  • p. 41: ‘they they were’ → ‘they were’
  • p. 62: ‘wickedness, and and’ → ‘wickedness, and’
  • p. 77: ‘artifical’ → ‘artificial’
  • p. 78: ‘artifical’ → ‘artificial’
  • p. 98: ‘wordly’ → ‘worldly’
  • p. 106: ‘continally’ → ‘continually’
  • p. 146: ‘reconcilation’ → ‘reconciliation’
  • p. 154: ‘spectulations’ → ‘speculations’
  • p. 162: ‘mainfested’ → ‘manifested’
  • p. 172: ‘withdawing’ → ‘withdrawing’
  • p. 181: ‘seperate’ → ‘separate’
  • p. 244: ‘tenure’ → ‘tenor’
  • p. 293: ‘jugdments’ → ‘judgments’
  • p. 320: ‘scandles’ → ‘scandals’
  • p. 338: ‘coarse’ → ‘course’
  • p. ix: ‘bccause’ → ‘because’

Printer’s oddities that are not errors were left exactly as printed (including inconsistent proper-name spellings and the original’s own numbering gaps).