OF THE LITURGY: BEING AN EXHIBITION OF The Harmony of the Subject CONTAINED IN THE COLLECT FOR EACH OF THE SUNDAYS AND HOLYDAYS IN THE YEAR, WITH OF ITS ACCORDANCE WITH A CORRESPONDING TOPIC IN THE CHURCH'S CATECHISM, AND IN HER ARTICLES OF RELIGION. 4. C9838·58 1864, Jes. 29. (K. br. 1852.) HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRA Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the BY ARCHER GIFFORD, A. M., year 1856, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Stereotyped by BILLIN AND BROTHER, 20 NORTH WILLIAM ST. Printed by GEORGE RUSSELL AND CO., 61 BEEKMAN Sr. PREFACE. IT has been said by learned men of the Church, that her Collects contain subjects of prayer, derived from the Epistles and Gospels; and that, on every Sunday and Holy-day, there is a leading topic commended to our meditations, to which the Collect relates, and to which the services for the day have special reference. On certain high festivals, and on fast-days, the subjects contained in the lessons are particularly appropriate to the topic which the Church has appointed for our instruction. In many instances, annotators upon our liturgy have strikingly but partially illustrated this conformity, especially Stanhope, Boys, Hole, I. Williams, Kenney, and Burrow; but, apparently, not with the intention of applying their remarks to the lessons from Scripture, and to other portions of the service, for each Sunday and Holyday throughout the year. The Church undoubtedly intends, that her services should conform to, and illustrate, as far as practicable, the subject of the Collect. An attentive observer will see the happy effect of this; and whether the lessons and other |