Excerpt from Shipwrecks of Faith: Three Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge Sunday afternoon, and again that for the service of this morning, are wholly occupied with the history of Balaam. They tell us, with one or two important. Exceptions, all which we know concerning a man, who made one of those signal and disastrous shipwrecks of faith whereof St. Paul in my text has spoken. It has seemed to me that I might not altogether unprofitably use the opportunities afforded to me here, if I were to comment a little to - day on the circumstances of his fall; and then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.