Excerpt from Selections From the Homilies of the Protestant Episcopal Church: With a Preface by the Rt. Rev. William Meade Godly living, as also erroneous and poisoned doctrines, tending to superstition and idolatry, hath by the advice of her honourable Counsellors, for her discharge in this behalf, caused a book of Homilies, which heretofore was set forth by her most loving Brother, a Prince of most worthy memory, Edward the Sixth, to be printed anew, wherein are contained certain wholesome and godly ex hortations, to move the people to honour and worship Almighty God, and diligently to serve him, every one according to their degree, state, and vocation, All which Homilies her Majesty commandeth and straightly charg eth all Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and all others having spiritual cure, every Sunday and Holy-day in the year, at the ministering of the holy Communion, or if there be no Communion ministered that day, yet after the Gos pel and Creed, in such order and place as is appointed. 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.