THE BOOK OF

COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE LORD'S SUPPER,

SLIGHTLY ALTERED FROM THAT IN USE IN THE

United Church of England and Ireland:

INTENDED TO BE BOUND UP WITH

THE PSALMS OF DAVID,

TRANSLATED OUT OF

The Original Hebrew;

AND WITH

THE FORMER TRANSLATION DILIGENTLY COMPARED
AND REVISED,

BY HIS MAJESTY'S (JAMES I.) SPECIAL COMMAND.

PARTRIDGE, OAKEY, AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW,

SERCOMBE AND PAYNE, PRINTERS, OXFORD MEWS,'

PADDINGTON,

THE PREFACE.

"IT hath been the wisdom of the Church of "England, ever since the first compiling of her "publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between "the two extremes, of too much stiffness in "refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it. For as on "the one side common experience sheweth, that "where a change hath been made of things advisedly established (no evident necessity so requiring) sundry inconveniences have there66 upon ensued; and those many times more "and greater than the evils that were in"tended to be remedied by such change: so,

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on the other side, the particular forms of "Divine worship, and the Rites and Cere"monies appointed to be used therein, being