prominence to these (unhappily) forgotten truths. Nor is this an unthankful office. How many of the best men have done much which they knew must pass away when the end for which they did it has been obtained, content, like the Blessed Baptist, to see others enter into their labours and themselves decrease, if only their LORD increased! How much more should we be thankful, if but one truth be through us more firmly fixed in a single mind!

It is not necessary to enumerate the doctrines and practices alluded to; some, however, may be mentioned.

The essential truth that the Blessed Eucharist is a Sacrifice, no less than a Sacrament, will be found here. How men called Christians could ever conceive otherwise, and how Priests could ever teach otherwise, is only one among those many anomalies, at this time existing in our Church: we cannot conceal it from ourselves that there are men in our Church who deny the Real Presence of

d It should be mentioned here that in the later editions a remarkable alteration was made in a passage, evidently with a view to remove out of sight this truth which Dr. Lake intended to convey.

our Blessed LORD's Body and Blood in the Christian Sacrifice, and that they continue in it unrebuked. Connected with this doctrine is the practice urged by our author, of receiving the adorable Body of our LORD fasting.

As might be looked for in the devotional work of any good man, the necessity of Almsgiving, Prayer, and Fasting is urged; and to those who are precluded from the use of the Catholic Offices, and yet would " seven times a day" praise the Lord, the services for Friday may suggest a method of doing so. To facilitate reference the Editor has headed the pages with the divisions which exist, indeed, in the text, but with some obscurity. Other points are, the explanation of the fourth Commandment, of the Fasts and Festivals ordained through the Church; the value of good works; bodily mortification; reverence towards the Altar; the typical meaning of the Priest's actions during the Consecration of the elements; the guardian ministry of Holy Angels and their especial presence at the Holy Eucharist; the commemoration of Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Holy Virgins, pious Matrons, and devout Widows, and, above all, of the most Blessed Virgin

Mary; the frequent use of the Psalms of David, the Church's Manual of Devotion; and the high importance―(O that our Priests would regard their power more as a duty than a right, and command us individually, not in words which have lost their meaning, to come to them for the blessing)—the high importance of Confession and Sacerdotal Absolution.

God grant that this reprint may, though in ever so slight a degree, promote the desire of Unity and the Communion of Saints. Deeply did the compiler mourn over the "shattered and distressed" condition of " the miserable divided Church in which we live," nor can he be called a faithful son who would not do his utmost to build up her breaches. Be it our prayer, who are laymen, that our Spiritual Rulers may be our guides to the Unity of the Faith; and may our Church enjoy "a portion of all the good prayers" of the Blessed Saints" in Heaven,” and of all good Catholics" on earth," through the sole immediate intercession of Him, whom we receive in the Holy Eucharist.

ORIEL COLLEGE,

The Feast of the Annunciation,

1843.

. A. J. C.

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Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange".

MADAM,

WHEN I first resolved a third review of these rude Collections, I was easily persuaded by my friends to address them to your Highness, not out of a design to beg your shelter and protection of them from the ill usages of a censorious and inhospitable world, not out of an overweening desire of raising an obelisk to my otherwise perishing and private memory, though I know that your authority will keep them in breath long after the author shall have expired his; nor out of an innocent ambition to proclaim my obligations to your Highness, which are more and greater than can be crowded into an Epistle.

In the earlier editions, "To the Lady Mary, eldest daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke of York."

These, indeed, are the usual pretences of Dedications, but my aim is higher, and directed to a more important end, by telling the world how good, how religious you are, to encourage you to be more so. And yet in attempting this I may seem impertinent ; because you are become your own theatre; every scene of your life is so generally known (whilst the world is a spectator to applaud and admire you) that it were even an impardonable arrogance in a man of my mediocrity either to think of adding any thing to your Highness's lustre, or to believe I need open my readers' eyes. The gravity and sweetness of your mien, the affability of all your comportments, the virtue, innocence, and goodness of your life, your resolved constancy in adhering to the religion of our Church, your frequent and devout retirements into your closet, your unwearied attendance at your Chapel and Altar, are sufficiently obvious, that the bare knowledge of your Highness hath been enough to render you beloved, which yet one cannot but do with a most profound respect. And, Madam, you have often encouraged me to tell you, that these endowments will ever