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Bp. Andrews's Sermon on Gal. iii. 4. (p. 32.)

No fulness there is of our Liturgy, or Public Solemn Service,

without the Sacrament.

ing, if that be wanting.

Some part, yea, the chief part is want

Dr. S. Patrick, the present Bp. of Ely.

Our Worship must be confessed to be but imperfect, when the Holy Communion is wanting. Discourse of Frequency of Holy Communion, (p. 68.)

Id. ibid. (p. 61.)

The Church in the best times, and the best men in the Church in after ages, looked upon this as an ordinary part of Christian Worship; which Christ intended should be performed in his Church, as oft as they assembled for Divine Service.

THE method which our Blessed Saviour prescribed for the reformation of what is amiss in individual and private persons and matters; (viz. that it be gradual, and, first, as gentle as may be, by tacit admonition, or private reproof; and if that will not do, then to proceed only to the audience of one or two, but still in private, that there may be witnesses to attest the orderly proceeding, as well as the obstinacy of the offender; and then, indeed, if that will not do, to report it to the Church, or Holy Assembly of the faithful; but never to expose the person, till all other means have been used, and found ineffectual and unsuccessful:) the same is, doubtless, according to his will, ordinarily much more to be observed in public persons and matters. And this I have endeavoured, and do desire, to observe in the matter in hand; which is of no mean moment, but concerning a principal matter of the Christian Religion, the most solemn and peculiar part of the Christian Worship. For, upon diligent search, under the conduct of the hand of God, into miscarriages, and

matters amiss therein, having plainly discovered and detected the same to my own satisfaction, I have given notice thereof to such as were concerned to promote a Reformation, and expected a just time for something to be done, or, at least, be begun for that purpose. And having done all that could be done in secret, I am now, by a regular course of proceeding, to make my report to the Church. And, for that, since there is no appearance of any opportunity to do it in a Synod, there is no other way left but this of the press: and this I have been careful to use with all the gentleness and deliberation that is fit in this case to be used, if we consider who is concerned in it, and how far. I have already, out of respect to those in authority, for no inconsiderable time, in a manner suppressed (communicating but to a few, and some of the principal men) what I had printed, though it did but in part open the faults. And now I do but propose a specimen of a remedy to consideration, without expressly noting what is amiss; desiring only leave to use it with my own company, till something more complete be established: that I may neither offend authority by acting without leave, nor my own mind by too much varying, in a matter of this moment, from the good order and practice of the Catholic Church; nor yet be forced to make use of that indulgence, which is now allowed to such as I would not willingly be. And, possibly, from such a beginning, by the favour and blessing of God, may a good

Reformation insensibly ensue, without trouble or difficulty.