CHARITY MANIFESTED BY AN ADHERENCE

TO THE TRUTH.

A SERMON,

PREACHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE

COLCHESTER NATIONAL SCHOOLS,

IN THE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST. PETER,

ON

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1813;

AND PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF

THE REV. THE ARCHDEACON OF COLCHESTER,

AND THE

COMMITTEE FOR MANAGING THE SAID SCHOOLS.

LEON

L'EA

RICHARD MANT, M. A

VICAR OF GREAT COGGE HALL, AND OSDC CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE, THE

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: AND LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE.

XFOR

"To improve your (children) effectually to their future happiness, you must "be assiduous in teaching the principles, not only of virtue and natural religion, but of the Gospel; and of the Gospel, not as almost explained away by “modern refiners, but as the truth is in Jesus;' as it is taught by the Church, "of which you are members."-(Abp. SECKER.)

London:

PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD;

J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; AND J. PARKER, OXFORD;
By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell,

1813.

TO THE

NATIONAL SOCIETY

FOR PROMOTING THE

EDUCATION OF THE POOR

IN THE

PRINCIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH;

THE FOLLOWING

SERMON,

INTENDED TO SET FORTH AND ILLUSTRATE

THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION IN THOSE PRINCIPLES

TO THE CAUSE OF

RELIGIOUS TRUTH,

IS MOST HUMBLY AND MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

Lambeth Palace,

August 20th, 1813.