Rites and Ritual: A Plea for Apostolic Doctrine and Worship

BY PHILIP FREEMAN, M.A.,
VICAR OF THORVERTON, DEVON; ARCHDEACON AND CANON OF EXETER; AUTHOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF DIVINE SERVICE.
WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE OPINIONS, ON CERTAIN POINTS OF DOCTRINE, OF HENRY, LORD BISHOP OF EXETER.
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O Mother dear, Wilt thou forgive thy son one boding sigh? Forgive, if round thy towers he walk in fear, And tell thy jewels o'er with jealous eye?
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FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1866.
LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.

The following pages had been prepared, for the most part, for publication, before it was known that the question of Ritual would be discussed in Convocation, or a Committee of the Lower House appointed, by the direction of the Upper House, to report upon it.
But the suggestions here offered are of so general a character, that it seemed to the writer that they might still without impropriety be put forth as a contribution, of however humble a kind, to the general ventilation of the subject.