Steps to the Altar; A MANUAL OF DEVOTIONS FOR THE Blessed Eucharist. BY W. E. SCUDAMORE, M.A., Late Fellow of S. John's College, Cambridge. Fourteenth Edition. LONDON: JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET, AND NEW BOND STREET. mdccclvi. 138. c.431. If he ask how often he should receive this Sacrament, he ought to have an answer in the words of an ancient writer: "Receive it as often as you can, that the old Serpent, feeing the Blood of the true Pafchal Lamb upon your lips, may tremble to approach you." BISHOP WILSON. NOTICE. Ir may be a fatisfaction to those who use this little book to know that, as far as the matter of the prayers is concerned, they' are strictly nothing more than a compilation from the writings of men eminent for holiness and learning. But while using the thoughts of others, the Compiler has generally either varied, or quite changed, the language in which they were clothed, the better (as he conceived) to adapt them to his purpose. His object was to furnish a Manual, which, from fimplicity of language, might be useful to a larger clafs than can profit by the excellent preparatory offices in common use. |