To the
Right Honourable and Right Reverend
The Lord Bishop of London.
My Lord,
Through your Lordship’s kindness I was appointed to the Boyle Lectureship; the same kindness has permitted me to relinquish it at the end of one year. I take the liberty of presenting to your Lordship the Discourses of that year. The study of the subject which is considered in them has been most interesting and comforting to myself; I shall be thankful indeed if it should prove of any use to my countrymen. Desiring for the Church universal, for that portion of it especially over which your Lordship presides, and for your Lordship personally all the blessings of this season,
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s very obliged Servant,
F. D. Maurice.
December, 1846.