Scriptural narratives of those passages in Our Blessed Lord's life and ministry, which are subjects of annual commemoration in the church preceded by preliminary notices of the days on which they are commemorated, and followed by reflexions and collects: adapted to the greater holydays of the United Church of England and Ireland; and designed, together with biographical notices of the apostles, evangelists, and other saints, to form a course of reading on all the holydays of the church. By Richard Mant |
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TO THE
REVEREND WILLIAM BISHOP, M.A.
RECTOR OF UFTON NERVET,
AND TO THE
REVEREND EDWARD BERENS, M.A.
VICAR OF SHRIVENHAM,
FORMERLY, TOGETHER WITH THE AUTHOR, FELLOWS OF ORIEL COLLEGE,
THE FOLLOWING VOLUME
IS INSCRIBED:
IN TESTIMONY OF VENERATION FOR THE
SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY OF THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLE,
AND FOR THE
FAITHFULNESS OF THE CHRISTIAN TEACHER,
AS EXEMLIFIED IN THEIR PAROCHIAL AND DOMESTICK PRACTICE;
AS WELL AS IN AFFECTIONATE ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF THE DELIGHT AND IMPROVEMENT
DERIVED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THEIR FRIENDSHIP,
DURING A PERIOD IN THE FORMER CASE EXCEEDING,
IN THE LATTER FALLING LITTLE SHORT OF,
HALF THE SPACE ASSIGNED BY THE PSALMIST
FOR THE DAYS OF THE AGE OF MAN.
Felices animæ, et quales neque candidiores
Terra tulit, neque queis me sit devinctior alter!
Terra tulit, neque queis me sit devinctior alter!
RD. DOWN AND CONNOR. December 22, 1830.
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