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The great safeguards which must be requisite for the preservation of any Church, are obviously the possession of a clear and distinct declaration of faith, to which strict adherence must be required, of a Liturgy which shall, practically, apply the doctrines of that declaration to men's wants and infirmities, and of a government which shall diligently repress every tendency to carelessness and every attempt at innovation. Extract Rose's Sermons on the State German Church. There are those who still prefer the beautifully printed editions of the Common Prayer, by Baskerville.+ Though, during the reign of Edward the Sixth, the Reformation made considerable progress, the greatest part of the parochial clergy were in a state of the most deplorable ignorance; but to remedy, as far as possible, this evil, the pious reformers composed and published the Book of Homilies for their use. The order of public worship was a Liturgy, or Book of Common Prayer, established by Act of Parliament. Though this act did not pass without much opposition, (especially from the bishops), some were so enamoured with the book that they scrupled not to say it was compiled by aid of the Holy Ghost. Burnet. + It may not here be irrelevant to give a brief notice of the celebrated printer. He was trained to no occupation, but in 1726 became a writing master, at Birmingham; he afterwards turned his attention to printing. His first attempt was a quarto edition of Virgil, 1756, price one guinea, but now much more valuable. In 1758 he was employed by the University of Oxford on an entire new faced Greek type. Soon after this he obtained leave from the University of Cambridge to print a Bible in royal folio, and two editions of the Common Prayer, in three sizes, for which permission he paid a considerable premium. Many efforts were used after Baskerville's death to dispose of his types, but without effect; and in 1779, they were purchased by a literary society of Paris, for 5,7001. and were afterwards employed on a splendid edition of Voltaire's Workshe had the merit of being the first modern improver of types. |