Charles Marshall
Published: 2015-07-19
Total Pages: 238
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Excerpt from The Latin Prayer Book of Charles II: Or, an Account of the Liturgia of Dean Durel; Together With a Reprint and Translation of the Catechism Therein Contained; With Collations, Annotations, and Appendices "Prefaces, and passages, and excusations, and other speeches of reference to the person," writes Bacon, "are great wastes of time; and though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery." We shall endeavour therefore to set forth the purpose and scope of our work in the briefest language. We have been led to the present undertaking by a desire to attract more attention to the Latin Prayer Book of 1670, and we desired this for two reasons. Firstly, on account of the remarkable scarcity of the Book itself; even in many notable Libraries, including those of Trinity Coll., Camb., of Westminster Abbey, of Exeter, Ely, Carlisle, Bangor, and other cathedrals, of Chetham College, Manchester, and of Althorpe House, etc., we are informed that no copy is to be found. Secondly, because Durel's Liturgia shows what the Revisers understood to be meant by the words which they retained and the words which they inserted; it shows the thought of the time as expressed by a contemporary and an authorized exponent. 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.