just expectations of our friends, nor suffer our foes to find us sleeping. We must "take heed to ourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made us overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood,"*--for now, if ever, is the admonition seasonable" See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." †

* Acts xx. 28. † Eph. v. 15, 16.

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1. SERMONS, chiefly Practical. In 2 vols. 8vo. 24s. A third volume is preparing.

2. A CHARGE delivered to the CLERGY of the ARCHDEACONRY. of SALOP, in the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, at the Visitation, in June, 1829.

3. A CHARGE, &c. in June, 1830. To which is added, an Address to the Churchwardens.

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THOUGHTS ON PAROCHIAL MINISTRATIONS

A CHARGE

DELIVERED TO THE

CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF SALOP,

IN THE

DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD,

AT THE VISITATION IN JUNE, 1837.

BY

EDWARD BATHER, M.A.

ARCHDEACON OF SALOP.

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