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COMPANION

FOR THE

FESTIVALS AND FASTS

OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PRINCIPALLY SELECTED AND ALTERED FROM

NELSON'S

COMPANION FOR THE FESTIVALS AND FASTS OF THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND.

WITH

FORMS OF DEVOTION.

BY

JOHN HENRY HOBART, D. D.
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York.

EIGHTH EDITION.

STEREOTYPED BY A. CHANDLER.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY SWORDS, STANFORD, & CO.

No. 152 Broadway.

Daniel, Fanshaw Printer.

1840.

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PREFACE.

In drawing up the following volume, the Editor took for his guide the excellent work of Nelson on the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England. Considerable change, however, has been made in the arrangement, the matter, and style of the original work. The evidences of the Christian Religion, and the constitution of the Christian Church, are discussed in preliminary instructions; and on the latter subject much useful matter has been selected from Stevens's Treatise on the Church, from Potter on Church Government, from which the preceding tract is compiled, and from the excellent work of Daubeny on the same subject. In the Chapter on Sunday, will be found an explanation and illustration of the Liturgy of the Church, connected with directions for the use of it; and on every Festival and Fast an explanation is given of the particular service for the day. These parts of the work are principally compiled from the various and excellent commentaries on the Book of Common Prayer, and from a small tract, entitled, Directions for a devout and decent Behaviour in the Public Worship of God. The Devotions are chiefly selected and altered from a book distinguished for its primitive and fervent piety, entitled, Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, published by Dean Hickes. The above are some of the principal particulars in which the

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