А OF CHRISTIAN FAITH & PRACTICE, CONFIRMED BY REFERENCES TO THE TEXT OF Holy Scripture; COMPARED WITH THE LITURGY, ARTICLES, AND HOMILIES, OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; and illustrated by EXTRACTS FROM THE CHIEF OF THOSE WORKS WHICH RECEIVED THE SANCTION OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY, TO THE FINAL REVISION OF THE ESTABLISHED FORMULARIES. BY THE REV. E. J. BURROW, D.D. F.R.S. & F.L.S. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1822, :,: TO THE RIGHT HON. AND RIGHT REV. WILLIAM, LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, Your Lordship will not, I am persuaded, reject a tribute of sincere reverence and dutiful esteem, offered to the Prelate in whose Diocese I have chiefly exercised my ministry, although it be a very humble offering. I have not, indeed, permission to affix to the volumes, which I now take the liberty of inscribing and presenting to your Lordship, a name, which, if I were authorized to use it, would assuredly impart to them a much higher sanction than they deserve ;-yet do me the honour to accept them, My Lord, as the only evidence I have it in my power to give, of the respectful sentiments with which I am, |