Author: William Birchley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780243207312

Excerpt from Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices: With Psalms, Hymns, and Prayers, for Every Day in the Week, and Every Holy Day in the Year Ration has been accustomed to sing them, versions which he would doubtless have gladly employed instead of his own less successful efforts. To have retained these latter would, no doubt, have added to the interest of the book as a mere antiquarian reprint, but with prejudice to its utility as an manual of devotion, the sole character in which it now appears again. It has never quite lost its charm, and old copies of the various adaptations of it, scattered far and wide, still assist the meditations and prayers of devout souls in many places; so that it may well be that, even amidst the variety and abundance of cognate works which pour incessantly from the press, John Austin's pious volume may meet, more completely than any other, the special needs of not a few seekers after holiness of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.