Excerpt from Revised Prayer Book IN issuing a second and much enlarged edition of my Revised Prayer Book, I must notice with unalloyed pleasure the success which has for three ears and more attended our use of the first edition. T is most gratifying to know how many persons of various shades of religious Opinion have accepted and welcomed this modest attempt to adapt the Liturgy of the venerable Church of England to a purely Theistic worship. For this reason I have struck out very few portions of the Older Service. The ...
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Excerpt from Revised Prayer Book IN issuing a second and much enlarged edition of my Revised Prayer Book, I must notice with unalloyed pleasure the success which has for three ears and more attended our use of the first edition. T is most gratifying to know how many persons of various shades of religious Opinion have accepted and welcomed this modest attempt to adapt the Liturgy of the venerable Church of England to a purely Theistic worship. For this reason I have struck out very few portions of the Older Service. The most striking change will be found, perhaps, in the introductory portion of the Service. Not our selves alone, but a large portion of conforming mem bers of the Church of England also, have completely outgrown the taste for the old Dearly Beloved, The General Confession, and The Absolution. A Clergyman, who was and is perfectly orthodox, confessed to me that these were quite out Of place in a mixed assembly and as an introduction to worship. Centuries ago, the Service began at the Lord's Prayer, and a little later, Psalms and Introits of praise were sung as an opening; a much more fitting prelude to devotion than the miserable whining introspection and confession of sin, the exaggerated terms of which stamp them with insincerity. It is quite possible for rare occasions to arise when such confession would be true and approviii preface TO the second edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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