general superintendence to fall into abeyance. Evil permitted, becomes, through Divine Wisdom, the source of greater good. The contemplation of this wondrous appointment will be one of our occupations in a future state.-XVIII. General and growing persuasion, that a better state of things is now required by the Universal Church. Fitness of the present time for the advocacy and adoption of the remedy here put forward for the evils that afflict the Church. Duty of Secular powers in this crisis; and the advantages that would arise from their performance of it.-XIX. Summaries of the Dedications of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Parts of this work. Earnest appeal in this Sixth Part to the prelates of the Universal Church in behalf of Christian Unity. Special obligations that lie upon them, in consequence of the marvellous preservation of the Universal Episcopate, amidst the convulsions and storms that have shattered temporal institutions.-XX. Three things essential to religious union :-Personal piety; identity of belief; and agreement in discipline and of these, the two last cannot be enforced by any authority less binding than that of the Church Universal, which can only act with effect by restoring the Apostolic office.-XXI. The Bishops of Rome have never been able to effect Unity in the Catholic Church, in consequence of their deficiency in the three sources of Unity, -personal piety; Scripturality of Creed; and unexceptionable Discipline. The astonishing influence possessed by the See of Rome in the height of its power. Means by which it lost that influence. Its attitude of hostility to other Churches.-XXII. Infidelity cannot effect the union which the Church of Rome has failed to bring about. Christianity was confounded with Popery by the agents of the first French Revolution. Lesson given to the Churches by that memorable event. General Apostolic superintendence of the Church Universal, the only remedy for disunion.-XXIII. Statement of the mode in which the Princes and people of the civilized world may be most effectually interested in the projected union of the Churches; and of the plans to be submitted, and of the specific object proposed. The general ecclesiastical conclusions of the Ante-Nicene period, deduced from Revelation, are the only ones that can be appealed to as authoritative in this case.-XXIV. The five powers, or governments, of France, Germany, England, Russia, and the United States of America, and the leading Ecclesiastic in each of them, may reasonably be expected to listen to, and act upon, an appeal for the Union of the Churches.-XXV. The present condition of France, and the recollection of the fearful commotions through which she has passed during the last sixty years, seem to justify the hope that she would now be a fit and willing instrument to assist, in conjunction with England, in effecting a general union of the Churches,-a measure which, more than any other, would be pregnant with important benefits to France herself.-XXVI. Expectation of the co-operation of France in this project for Union grounded upon two things,-the spirit with which the Church of that nation once defended its liberty against the encroachments of Rome;-and the fact that it was the only Church then in connexion with Rome with which an Archbishop of Canterbury projected a union with the Church of England, against the aggressive supremacy of Rome.XXVII. Threefold form assumed by the resistance to the usurpation of Rome. The case of the Greek and Anglican Churches. The case of the Church of France, and the Gallican Liberties. Concordats. Important influence which that Church may exercise in any attempt to effect the union of the Church Universal. Appeal to the Protestants, as well as to the Romish ecclesiastics, of France.-XXVIII. The French Church invited by an Archbishop of Canterbury to consider with the English Church the possibility of an union. Correspondence between Archbishop Wake and Ellies Dupin and Piers Girardin. Faults committed in this negotiation by the Archbishop of Paris, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.-XXIX. Appeal to the Bishop of Rome. An earnest entreaty to that pontiff to effect a return to that simplicity and integrity of faith which once won the approval of an Apostle and the admiration of the whole Christian world. The Creed of Pius IV. condemned. Analysis of it. The Bishop of Rome himself does not and cannot believe it. The Roman pontiff exhorted to remove the obstructions, which the groundless and exorbitant pretensions of that see oppose to the peace and union of Christendom.-XXX. Appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Importance of his Grace's declaration, on his elevation to the Primacy, "That the blessing of God was to be expected in proportion as we are true to the principle of adherence to the Word of God, and deference to the Scriptures, rather than to the practice or opinions of men." The station and influence of the head of the Church of England render him the fittest instrument to propose and commence an object so dear to Christians as the union in one body, and faith, and hope, of all who name the name of Christ

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1. TITLE. The Daily Prayer, and the Lord's
Day Service, must be added to the observance
of the Fasts and Festivals which commemorate
the principal events of Christianity. A state of
peace and prosperity is too often the period of
the greatest spiritual danger. The punishment
of death is inflicted upon the blasphemy, which
was a crime unknown to Israel so long as its
ontward danger from Egypt continued.
causes of the blasphemy.

The

2. INTRODUCTION.
3. PORTION OF
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SCRIPTURE.

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4. PRAYER. That we not only offer the heart to God on all the great occasions when we commemorate the Birth and Resurrection of Christ, and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church, but that we remember these and all other events which concern us in our daily prayers, and in our weekly services; that we never turn back in heart to the Egypt of this world; that we never blaspheme or curse, in