Eucharistica: Meditations and Prayers On the flost Holy Eucharist. From Old English Bivines. With an Entroduction by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford. To which is added Prayers for Holy Communion London: Suttaby and Co. 138. i. 754. Before thy death this feast thou didst ordain, Thy saints will imitate thy solemn care, BISHOP KEN. INTRODUCTION. As a matter of mere abstract reasoning, there can be little difference amongst members of the Church of England as to the importance of a regular attendance at the table of the Lord, or little doubt that they who habitually, and of settled purpose, neglect that holy rite, must be set down with those who live in any other wilful sin, whether of omission or commission. The unhappy logic which can relax the obligation of that plain and affectionate command, "Do this in remembrance of me," can as easily explain away any other of the laws of God. Yet this is only one amongst many instances which show the little worth of abstract acknowledgments of duty. Men live by a different rule-by the law of their own habits, and of the tone of life around them; and that this is in direct opposition to the theoretical admission of the universal duty of communicating is but too clear on all sides. How many may be found in every church, who rise with utter unconcern to quit the |