OF THE HOLY COMMUNION IN THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER; A Series of Lectures DELIVERED IN THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, PADDINGTON. BY EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN, D.D., PREBENDARY of st. Paul's, AND ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAPLAINS IN ORDINARY. ADAPTED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE COMMUNION OFFICE ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK. D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 549 & 551 BROADWAY. 1873. PREFATORY NOTICE. THE chief design of this little Work is Edification. But in writing on the Office of the Holy Communion, it is impossible to avoid altogether questions of a controversial character. The Doctrine of the Sacrament must of course be stated and considered in such a work. On this difficult subject I have endeavoured to set forth the teaching of the Anglican Churches, as expressed in their formularies, and represented by their best Divines, repudiating on the one hand Transubstantiation, and all erroneous views holding of that dogma, and on the other Zwinglianism and all views which go to reduce the Holy Sacrament to a mere symbol, and to empty it of its character as the Highest Means of Grace. I have tried to maintain that our Lord's Body and Blood are verily and indeed (and not merely in a figure) taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper, though after a heavenly and |