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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK I. INTRODUCTORY. Chapter I. ON THE EXCELLENCES OF THE COLLECTS. nftni btals full of on turns, toWfj ate t'fjc jrapms Rev. v. 8. The Collects of the English Prayer Book have received various eulogies from authors of note. Bishop Sanderson called them the most passionate, proper, and most elegant expressions1 (of devotional feeling) that any language ever afforded; and that there was in them such piety, and so interwoven with instructions, that they taught us to know the power, the wisdom, the majesty, and mercy of God, and much of our duty both to Him and our neighbour. Alexander Knox said of them that for twelve hundred years they had been as the manna in the wilderness to devout spirits, and are, next to Scripture itself, the clearest standard whereby genuine piety may be discerned; the surest guidance by which its progress may be directed; the highest mark to which its wishes would aspire.2 Lord Macaulay, hitting in fewwords their chief characteristics, commends them for their unity of sentiment and severity of style.1 Archdeacon Freeman speaks of them as prayers of matchless profundity, which comprehend all the spiritual needs of man.2 But, at the outset of our exposition of them, it will be interesting and edifying to consider the language in which Holy Scripture itself describes the prayers of saints, and to note how exactly the Collects in their main features correspond with this description. This, then, is the symbol under which, in the sublime opening vision of the Eevelation, the prayers of saints are set forth? golden vials full of odours. The word odours is translated incense in a later passage of this book, where it is observable that the prayers of saints are spoken of, not as being themselves incense, but as...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217460859
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217460852
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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