ADVERTISEMENT TO THIS FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. From the thirty-nine Articles of Religion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. ARTICLE XXXV. "The second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these Times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers diligently and distinetly, that they may be understanded of the People. Of the Names of the Homilies. 1. Of the right Use of the Church. 3. Of repairing and keeping clean of Churches. 4. Of good Works: first of Fasting. 5. Against Gluttony and Drunkenness. 7. Of Prayer. 8. Of the Place and Time of Prayer. 9. That Common Prayers and Sacraments ought to be ministered in a known Tongue. 350414 |