Excerpt from A Rationale Upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England O preface. And more. To end, if the Reader will cast his eye upon the sad confusions in point of prayer, (wherein are such contradictions made as God Almighty cannot grant, ) and lay them as rubbish under these fundamental considerations; first, how many set forms (of petition, blessing, and praise) be recorded in the Old and New Testament, used both in the Church militant and. Triumphant; secondly, how much Of the Liturgy is very Scripture; thirdly, how admirable a thing Unity, (unity in time, form, is; fourthly, how many millions of poor souls are in the world, ig norant, infirm by nature, age, accidents, (as blindness, deafness, loss of speech, &c.) which respectively may receive help by set forms, but cannot so well (or not at all) by extem porary voluntary effusions, and then upon all these will build what he reads in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.