act, must be so displayed as to make us inwardly exclaim : "How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the House of God; and this is the gate of heaven. Surely the Lord is in this place".1 As it was the compiler's aim to exhibit the doctrine of our Church, on the subject of the Holy Eucharist, in full unison with that of Catholic antiquity, so he has endeavoured to give the same tone to the devotional department. With that view he has borrowed largely from the primitive Liturgies, and from the works of those bright ornaments of England, since the Reformation, who are emphatically styled "AngloCatholic," and who appear to have lived still, as it were, in the One undivided Church. May Almighty God bless the undertaking, however imperfect, to the advancement of His own glory, and the eternal welfare of those "that mind to come to the holy communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ." Amen. E. B. Feast of St. James the Apostle, 1848. 1 Genesis xxviii, 16, 17. ALL the faithful who come in and hear the Scriptures, but do not stay for the Prayers and the Holy Communion, are to be excommunicated, as causing disorder in the Church.-The Apostolical Canons, ix. "CHRIST was once offered."-Heb. ix, 28. What then? Do not we [Christians] daily offer? We do offer, but making a memorial of His death. And this is one and not many. How one and not many? Because it was once offered, as was that which was brought into the Holy of Holies. This is a type of that, and this itself of that. For we always offer the same; not now one animal, to-morrow another, but always the same thing. So then the sacrifice is one. Else, since it is offered in many places, there were many Christs. But no. There is but one Christ every where, here fully, and there fully, one Body. As then He, being offered in many places, is one Body, and not many bodies, so also there is one sacrifice. Our High Priest is He, who offered the sacrifice which cleanseth us. That same sacrifice which was then also offered, we offer now too, that, the inexhaustible. For this is for a memorial of that which took place then. For He saith 'This do, as a memorial of me.' We do not make a different, but always the same sacrifice; or rather we make a memorial of that sacrifice. - S. Chrys. Hom. xvii, on Heb. ix, 28. "The great clerk and godly preacher, St. John Chrysostom."-Homilies, 1 b. i, 1. |