A Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer Of The Church Of England by Charles Wheatley - 1852

This antiquarian book is in poor condition. There is significant wear and damage to the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards.The corners also have very pronounced bumping. The entire cover boards are taped with packing tape to hold the book together. The two front pages are loose and detached from the book. There is a marking on the front end page.The pages are yellowed, tanned and soiled. The only thing holding the book together is packing tape.

"Most of the objections urged by the Dissenters against the Church of England, to justify their separation from it, being levelled against its form and manner of divine worship, prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, &c., are, in the following Discourse, answered, as fully as its brevity would permit. So that, though the principal design of this book be to instruct such as are friends to our Church and Liturgy; yet it is not impossible but that, by the blessing of God, it may in some measure contribute to the undeceiving some that are enemies to both, (such I mean as are disaffected to the former, upon no other account, than a prejudice to the latter;) especially could we, by first convincing them of the Liturgies in general, prevail with them to take an impartial view of what is here offered in behalf of our own. To this end therefore, and to make the following sheets of as genera luse as I can, I shall, by way of Introduction, endeavor to prove these three things; viz." - A Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer Of The Church Of England