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Essays on Some Select Parts of the Liturgy of the Church of England
Essays on Some Select Parts of the Liturgy of the Church of England Author:Thomas Tregenna Biddulph Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To the Inhabitants of the parish of St. Werburgh in the city of Bristol, and the congregation which usually assembles for Divine worship in their parish-church, ... more »on the evening of the Lord's day. My Dear Brethren, A S a desire to promote your everlasting salva. turn gave rise to that Course of Lectures, of which the following pages contain the substance ; it seemed, on mature reflection, that you were the persons to whom I should with the greatest propriety address these humble fruits of my labor. Permit me to say, in imitation of the Apostle, that God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ ; and that my heart's desire and prayer to God for you is, that you may be saved. And if the adorable Head of the church should condescend to render the use of so mean an instrument effectual to the furtherance of your spiritual happiness in this world, and to the preparation of your souls for that rest which remaineth to the people of God in the world to come ; great will be our mutual joy chapter{Section 4and congratulation, when we meet together in the courts above to worship the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us unto God by his blood. Great is the honor and regard, which I entertain for you, Men, Brethren, and Fathers, the worthy Rector, the Vestrymen, and other inhabitants of the Parish, to which I have lately been appointed the Lecturer. The general respectability of your characters, as members of society, secures to you public esteem ; while the pious example of many among you, founded on Christian principles, attracts the cordial affection of all who truly fear God. But that which more peculiarly on the present occasion demands a due acknowledgment, is that instance of your conduct when, rising superior to vulgar prejudices, and ...« less