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PREFACE. 11 men or to clergymen in answering such inquirers, giving in one volume information which, without this, can be procured only from many volumes. Excellent books have been written on different points in the system of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and illustrative of its peculiar doctrines and customs, with very great profit. But, after all, there is no work which, in a plain, didactic style, develops the entire system of the Protestant Episcopal Church as it is, which shows out the whole Church as an existing and operating system of to-day. There is no work which illustrates distinctly the comprehensiveness of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with regard to its adaptation to the purposes of Christian and Ecclesiastical Unity—the Divinely-intended purposes of the one great Catholic or Universal Church of Christ. These blanks the writer has endeavored to fill; or rather, he has endeavored to exemplify, by short precedents, how these blanks may be filled. It is his impression that a book, upon a plan similar to this, and better executed, might be useful in all our parishes, and might be very generally circulated with much advantage, not only to the Protestant Episcopal Church, but also to the great object of Christian and Ecclesiastical Unity, which all true disciples of our Lord have so much at heart—in other words, to the exhibition of the real and chief end for which God's Church is founded among men.
Title | The comprehensive church |
Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
Publisher | Appleton |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | 1879 |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000015 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | PREFACE. 11 men or to clergymen in answering such inquirers, giving in one volume information which, without this, can be procured only from many volumes. Excellent books have been written on different points in the system of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and illustrative of its peculiar doctrines and customs, with very great profit. But, after all, there is no work which, in a plain, didactic style, develops the entire system of the Protestant Episcopal Church as it is, which shows out the whole Church as an existing and operating system of to-day. There is no work which illustrates distinctly the comprehensiveness of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with regard to its adaptation to the purposes of Christian and Ecclesiastical Unity—the Divinely-intended purposes of the one great Catholic or Universal Church of Christ. These blanks the writer has endeavored to fill; or rather, he has endeavored to exemplify, by short precedents, how these blanks may be filled. It is his impression that a book, upon a plan similar to this, and better executed, might be useful in all our parishes, and might be very generally circulated with much advantage, not only to the Protestant Episcopal Church, but also to the great object of Christian and Ecclesiastical Unity, which all true disciples of our Lord have so much at heart—in other words, to the exhibition of the real and chief end for which God's Church is founded among men. |
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