Excerpt from The Principles of Divine Service: An Enquiry Concerning, the True Manner of Understanding and Using, the Order for Morning and Evening Prayer, and for the Administration of the Holy Communion in the English ChurchThe end for which all things exist, and especially such as are rational and spiritual, is, by universal confession, that they may serve to the glory of almighty god by duty and praise. In knowledge of Him, moreover, and in union to Him, stands the life of Christian men, and the means of their per fection. And in their seeking Him, once more, by ways of His appointing, lies the condition of their finding Him, and in Him all that they need. To maintain these relations, and carry on these great transactions, between Heaven and earth, is one pur pose for which the Church was founded. Nor can any study be much more interesting than that of the mode in which she has been used to do this in time past, or in other parts of the world; any more im portant to us than that of the forms of such service existing at the present hour in the Church to which we belong.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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