THE SYNODAL DISCOURSES,

AND

EPISCOPAL MANDATES,

OF

MASSILLON BISHOP OF CLERMONT,

ON THE

PRINCIPAL DUTIES OF THE CLERGY.

TRANSLATED C

By the Rev. C. H. BOYLAN, of the Royal College of Maynooth.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR THE TRANSLATOR:

AND PUBLISHED BY R. MILLIKEN, AND R. COYNE;

AND BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN;
BY BOOKER; AND BY KEATING AND BROWNE,

LONDON.

1825.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

Printed by E. & S. RORKE,
Beresford-street, Dublin.

13 MAY 1969

CONTENTS

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PAGE.

A DISCOURSE

Upon the Vocation to the Ecclesiastical

State: addressed to the Young.

A DISCOURSE

On the Characters which ought to mark the

Zeal of the Clergy against Vice.

A DISCOURSE

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On the manner in which the Clergy ought

to converse with Persons of the World. 90

A DISCOURSE

On the necessity in which Pastors are, of

renewing themselves in the Spirit of

their Vocation.

SYNODAL DISCOURSES.

FIRST DISCOURSE.

120

SECOND DISCOURSE.

On the Love of Pastors for their Flocks.