PREFACE.
In this Edition of the Book of Common Prayer, some particulars of the formation of the Liturgy, with explanations of many parts of the Services are given in Notes accompanying the Text, and compressed into a small compass, that they may be of easy reference, and that the size of the Book may not be unsuitable to general use. The substance of the Notes is to be found in the writings of others, and has been gathered from the well- known commentaries of Lowth, Patrick, Horne, Comber, Nicholls, Wheatley, Shepherd,& c. The object in view is distinctness and brevity; the only merit to which the Work pretends is selection, and a desire to be useful to those who may not have the opportunity of consulting such Authors; it has been thus arranged in the humble hope of impressing upon the mind of Youth especially, a sense of the beauty and excellence of the sublime Ritual of the Church of England.