 | William Magan Campion - 1870 - 436 pages
...the same was not ordained but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of goJIiness. For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, (or...intending thereby, that the Clergy, and especially tuch M were Ministère in the congregation, should {by often reading, and meditation in God's word)... | |
 | Church of England - 1870 - 520 pages
...the same was not ordained, but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness : For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby, that the clergy, and specially such as were Ministers of the congregation,... | |
 | Timothy Puller - 1870 - 402 pages
...especially, " the clergy and God's ministers in the congregation, should by often reading and meditating on God's word, be stirred up to godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others, and confute the adversaries of the truth ;" as we observe from the " Preface concerning the service... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - Ecclesiastical law - 1873 - 1162 pages
...the same was not ordained but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness. For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth ; and further, that the... | |
 | John Pilkington Norris - 1873 - 100 pages
...the godly and decent order of the ancient Fathers " (as Cranmer tells us in his preface), whereby " all the whole Bible, or the greatest part thereof,...once every year ; intending thereby that the Clergy . . . should (by often reading and meditation in God's Word) be stirred up to godliness themselves,... | |
 | Seward Brice - Ecclesiastical law - 1875 - 730 pages
...the same was not ordained, but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness : for they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby, that the Clergy, and specially such as were ministers of the congregation,... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Bishops - 1876 - 684 pages
...Word." Preface to the Book of Common Prayer ; Concerning the Sen-ice of the Church. — " For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth ; and, further, that the... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1876 - 688 pages
...Word." Preface to the Book of Common Prayer ; Concerning the Service of the Church. — " For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth ; and, further, that the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1889 - 532 pages
...the same was not ordained, but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness : for they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby, that the Clergy, and specially such as were Ministers of the congregation,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1896 - 568 pages
...the choir offices, to the recitation of the Breviary or Psalter. The ancient Fathers, it tells us, ' so ordered the matter that all the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over every year,' and the Psalms were divided into seven portions so that the whole Psalter was read over... | |
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For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once every year; intending thereby, that the Clergy, and especially such as were Ministers in the congregation, should (by often reading, and... 
