and honoured and comforted by our attendance upon public worship. "What return can we make for all the benefits" which we thus receive, but love and obedience, honour and gratitude, to the Giver of all good? Why should any one refuse to join in this Service? The doctrine, discipline, and worship of this Church, were from Christ and his Apostles, and in use during the first centuries of the primitive profession of Christianity. They are built upon the foundation of the Scriptures, and supported by their sanction and authority. And to what part of them can objection be rationally maintained? Every condition of man has an interest in it, and why should not all unite in it? They who are in the highest rank here, feel the insignificance of their earthly. distinctions; the low and the humble here know themselves to be but men; both are equally the children of God, equally capable of happiness, equally under the care and vigilant protection of Providence, heirs of glory, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. To all there is one common faith, one common worship. All utter the same confession, proclaim the same praise. To accomplish this purpose of "glory to God," of "peace on earth," and of "good-will to men," the forms of the Common Prayer afford the

readiest and most rational assistance. May they be more valued and better understood! May no cold formality, no idle indifference, be justly charged against the members of our Church! May no ravings of enthusiasm, no fanatical reveries degrade its worship! But may all be connected by unity of faith, doctrine, and worship, and be "one fold under one shepherd, Jesus Christ!"

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These thoughts cannot be better expressed, than in that excellent prayer for Unity, in the service upon the Anniversary for the King's Accession.

O God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Saviour, the Prince of peace; give us grace seriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions. Take away all hatred and prejudice, and whatever else may hinder us from union and concord: and as there is but one body, and one spirit, and one hope of

Our excellent Liturgy recognizes with precision the One Great Object of worship, in his personal distinctions and glorious attributes; the honours and offices of the Redeemer, the power and agency of the Holy Spirit, the evil of Sin, the depravation of Man, and all the distinguishing doctrines of the Gospe!.

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our calling; one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may henceforth be all of one heart, and one soul, united in one holy bond of truth and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ARTICLES OF RELIGION.

ARTICLES of Religion were first published in 1536, in which some of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church were retained, and some of them rejected.

In 1552, forty-two Articles were published, supposed to have been framed by Cranmer and Ridley, and were agreed upon by the Bishops and other learned men of the Clergy in the Convocation. These Articles were repealed by Queen Mary.

The thirty-nine Articles were chiefly founded upon the former Articles, which were compiled and published in the reign of King Edward VI. They were drawn up in Latin, first passed in the Convocation, and confirmed by Queen Elizabeth in 1562. They were afterwards revised, and with few alterations, republished, both in Latin and English, and again ratified and confirmed in 1571, and again by King Charles I.

In the compilation of them, much care was taken to establish the positive articles of Religion, to remove whatever had been formerly introduced with reference to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, or lately by the Anabaptists and Enthusiasts of Germany; to avoid diversities of opinion; and to leave to all, as much as possible, in matters which were more liable to controversy, the privilege of following their private opinions, without causing disunion to the peace of the Church.

The five first Articles contain the Christian doctrines concerning the Trinity; the sixth, seventh, and eighth, contain the rule of Faith ; the ten following relate to our duty as Christians, and the last twenty-one, as members of a religious society.

The law requires submission to these Articles of all persons to be ordained Deacons or Priests; of all Clergymen inducted to any Ecclesiastical Living, Lectureships, and Curacies; of the heads of Colleges, a of Chancellors, Officials and Commissaries, and of Schoolmasters. Dissenting teachers are to subscribe all the Articles, except the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, and thirty

z 13 Eliz. c. 12, 13, 14.

a Charles II. c. 4.