REVERENCE

DUE TO

HOLY PLACE S.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

“Remarks on English Churches.”

"When once thy foot enters the Church, be bare,
God is more there than thou; for thou art there
Only by His permission. Then beware,
And make thyself all reverence and fear."

HERBERT, The Church Porch.

"Even now, in the dry and glaring age in which we live and toil, what a
homestead of Christian peace may we make for ourselves, for the aged and
poor, the sick and weary, the widowed and world-worn, in our Parish Church!
Let us guard the House of God with a dutiful and loving care; and if the
Lord blessed the house of Obed-edom for the Ark's sake, while it tarried with
him, believe that He will not forget your love and reverence to His Sanc-
tuary. A love to the very stones of his Parish Church is rooted deeply in
the heart of every genuine Englishman."

ARCHDEACON MANNING'S CHARGES, 1842, 1843.

THIRD EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

OXFORD: PARKER. YORK SUNTER.

BODI

BATH: SIMMS, POCOCK, COLLINGS, AND HAYWARD.

WINCHESTER
MANCHESTER: SIMMS & DENHAM.

JACOB AND JOHNSON. EXETER HANNAFORD.

LEEDS: SLOCOMBE & SIMMS.

1846.

1173.

"Reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord."-Levit. xix. 30.

"Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them."-St. Matt. xviii. 20.

"God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints."-Psalm lxxxix. 7.

"The ancient fathers affirmed that the House of Prayer is a court beautified with the presence of celestial powers; that there we stand, we pray, we sound forth hymns unto God, having His angels intermingled as our associates. How can we come to the House of Prayer and not be moved with the very glory of the place itself, so to frame our affections, praying as doth best beseem them whose suits the Almighty doth there sit to hear, and His angels attend to further."-Hooker.

"If the sight of a Church should remind a man of some sentiment of piety, if from the view of a material building, dedicated to the service of God, he should be led to regard himself, his own body, as a living Temple of the Holy Ghost, and therefore no more than the other to be profaned or desecrated by any thing that defileth or is impure; could it be truly said of such a one that he was superstitious, or mistook the means of religion for the end?"-Bishop Halifax.

TO THE MOST HONOURABLE

HARRIET,

MARCHIONESS OF BATH,

VISCOUNTESS WEYMOUTH;

A RESTORER OF THE OLD WASTE PLACES

TO THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS;

THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH THE PRAYER

THAT BLESSINGS, SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL,

MAY REST UPON THAT ROOF,

WHICH, IN THE DAY OF HIS DEPRIVATION,

AFFORDED SHELTER AND REPOSE

TO THE APOSTOLICAL

BISHOP KEN.