Excerpt from Let Us Pray: A Handbook of Selected Collects and Forms of Prayer for the Use of Free Churches IT cannot be said that Free Churchmen have ever been indifferent to the ideal of public worship. Indeed they endured much snfiering in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that they might secure liberty to worship God according to the conscience of the worshippers. Yet it may be questioned whether those who are so swift to appreciate, and so resolute to affirm this privilege, are equally conscious that, since every privilege implies a duty, so this right to worship as we like involves the duty to worship as we ought. When George Herbert restored the parish church of Leighton Ecclesia, he was careful to place the pulpit and the reading desk side by side, and to make both of equal height, in order that, as he would often say, they should neither have a precedency or priority of the other; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and We may be allowed to doubt whether Free Churchmen generally have kept this ideal clearly in view; Walton's Life of Herbert. 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.