ADVERTISEMENT. NEXT to a sound rule of faith, there is nothing of so much consequence as a sober standard of feeling in matters of practical religion : and it is the peculiar happiness of the Church of England to possess, in her authorized formularies, an ample and secure provision for both. But in times of much leisure and unbounded curiosity, when excitement of every kind is sought after with a morbid eagerness, this part of the merit of our Liturgy is likely in some measure to be lost, on many even of its sincere admirers: the very tempers, which most require such discipline, setting themselves, in general, most decidedly against it. The object of the present publication will be attained, if any person find assistance from it in b bringing his own thoughts and feelings into more entire unison with those recommended and exemplified in the Prayer Book. The work does not furnish a complete series of compositions ; being, in many parts, rather adapted with more or less propriety to the successive portions of the Liturgy, than originally suggested by them. Something has been added at the end concerning the several Occasional Services : which constitute, from their personal and domestic nature, the most perfect instance of that soothing tendency in the Prayer Book, which it is the chief purpose of these pages to exhibit. Nov. 30, 1827. 1 CONTENTS. Second Sunday in Advent. The Signs of the Times. Third Sunday in Advent. The Travellers. Fourth Sunday in Advent. Dimness. First Sunday after Christmas. The Sun-dial of Ahaz. Second Sunday after Christmas. The Pilgrim's Song. First Sunday after Epiphany. The Nightingale. 67 Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The World is for Excitement, the Gospel for Soothing. Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. Cure Sin and you 63 certainty. 4 First Sunday in Lent. The City of Refuge. Second Sunday in Lent. Esau's Forfeit. Third Sunday in Lent. The Spoils of Satan. 92 Fourth Sunday in Lent. The Rosebud Fifth Sunday in Lent. The Burning Bush. 99 Sunday next before Easter. The Children in the Monday before Easter. Christ waiting for the Tuesday before Easter. Christ refusing the Wine Wednesday before Easter. Christ in the Garden. 112 Monday in Easter week. St. Peter and Cornelius. 130 Tuesday in Easter week. The Snow-drop. 134 First Sunday after Easter. The Restless Pastor re- Second Sunday after Easter. Balaam. Third Sunday after Easter. Languor and Travail. . 144 Fourth Sunday after Easter. The Dove on the Cross. 147 Fifth Sunday after Easter. The Priest's Intercessor. 152 Sunday after Ascension Day. Seed-time. 159 Monday in Whitsun-week. The City of Confusion. 166 Tuesday in Whitsun-week. Holy Orders. 171 - First Sunday after Trinity. Israel among the Ruins 179 Second Sunday after Trinity. Charity the Life of Third Sunday after Trinity. Comfort for Sinners in Fourth Sunday after Trinity. The Groans of Nature. 188 Fifth Sunday after Trinity. The Fishermen of Beth- Sixth Sunday after Trinity. The Psalmist repenting. 197 |
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