A DICTIONARY OF THE CH U R CH, CONTAINING AN EXPOSITION OF TERMS, PHRASES AND SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE EXTERNAL OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. WITH AN ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. BY THE REV. WM. STAUNTON. "this also we wish, even your perfection."-2 Cor. xiii. 9. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY SHERMAN & TREVETT, AT THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL PRESS, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, bỷ WILLIAM STAUNTON, in the office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. TIBBYBA T Stationers' Hall Press (RECAP) 5684 PREFACE. THE design of the present work is chiefly to illustrate and explain, in a familiar manner, the external Order, Customs, and Language of the Church. The writer has, therefore, confined himself mainly to these, without touching directly on the higher ground of the doctrinal characteristics of the Church, except in those articles where the close connection of these with the outward administration of the sanctuary furnished a justifiable reason for digression. The scope of the work is such as necessarily to embrace many points of importance, already made familiar through the periodical press, or by the expositions of writers ever ready to consecrate their services to the Church. With the province of these, it is not the object of the present sketches to interfere. We offer the outline; others have given the finished picture. And the reader whose interest this little volume may have excited, will equally gratify himself and the writer, by renewing his investigations in the more elabo rate works of others. Yet it has long been felt that a chasm existed in the elementary literature of the Church, which could only be filled =548° JAN 19 1906 200578 |