Excerpt from Devotions of the Ages: Or, Collects, Texts and Lyrics, Illustrative of the Christian Year and of the Offices and Ember Seasons of the Church This little volume is commended to the Church, with the prayer, that it may aid in illustrating the beauty of holiness, in the ways of our Zion, and assist the young churchman in attaining to such ripeness and perfectness of age in Christ, that there be no place left, either for error in religion, or for viciousness of life. It has been the object of the compiler to select a text from the Epistle for each Sunday, and Holy day, that should harmonize with the sentiment of the respective Collects. In a few instances, he has been led to make a selection from the Gospels. In order the more surely to fix the special idea of the Collect, a few lines of Sacred Poetry have been subjoined; for says Geo. Herbert, J. 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.