BEING A MANUAL OF DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIGHT CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, FOR THE SAYING OF MATINS AND EVENSONG, AND FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF OTHER RITES AND 6577 CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH. According to Ancient Uses of the Church of England. With Plan of Chancel and Illustrations of "such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration, (as) shall be retained, and be in use as were in this Church of England, by the authority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth." John Purchas FOURTH EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH NUMEROUS EMENDATIONS. EDITED BY THE REV. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, D.C.L., F.S.A., VICAR OF ALL SAINTS', LAMBETH. LONDON: JOHN HOGG & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 1879. WM TO THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS IN VISIBLE COMMUNION WITH THE SEE OF CANTERBURY THIS MANUAL IS, WITH EVERY FEELING OF PROFOUND RESPECT, MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED. Extract from a Charge delivered to the Clergy of New Zealand, September 23, 1847 By George Augustus, Lord Bishop of New Zealand (now Bishop of Lichfield). London: Rivingtons, 1849. "The care of sacred things is not an idolatry of inanimate matter, but a recognition of the unseen GOD, to whose service they have been dedicated. It has been deemed worthy of record in the Gospel that CHRIST, when He had ended His reading, closed the book, and delivered it to the minister, to be, no doubt, deposited in the proper place, to be preserved from injury and desecration. No event ever happened on earth more awful than the Resurrection, yet it was a work not unworthy of the care of the angels, even at that solemn season, to lay the linen clothes by themselves, and to wrap together the napkin that was about the head in a place by itself. Even the linen cloth which had touched the most holy sinoffering was holy in the sight of those heavenly ministers." |