ON THE ORDINATION SERVICES FOR DEACONS AND PRIESTS, IN THE United Church of England and Ireland: FOR THE USE OF CANDIDATES FOR ORDERS, AND OF THOSE WHO REVIEW THEIR ORDINATION-VOWS: AND RESPECTFULLY PROPOSED AS A MANUAL FOR MINISTERS OF TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Appropriate Prayers for Clergymen, SELECTED AND ORIGINAL. Benè orâsse est benè studuisse. BY JOHN BREWSTER, M.A. RECTOR OF EGGLESCLIFFE, AND VICAR OF GREATHAM IN THE LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, By R. and R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. то THE HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND SHUTE BARRINGTON, L.L. D. LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. MY LORD, AS an apology may be thought requisite for a Clergyman in a private station, recommending to his Brethren a revision of their Ordination-vows, and an increased attention to the performance of their holy obligations; such an apology cannot be made to any with more propriety than to your Lordship, whose character stands high in public, and in private, estimation, and who, for a series of years, extended beyond the allotted age of man, has been so illustrious an example of every professional duty. At any other time, or on any other subject, I should not have presumed to have addressed your Lordship in language of a personal tendency; but as I am pleading for the purity of a Church which stands unrivalled in doctrine and in discipline, amidst many assailants, I could not look up with greater confidence to a more strenuous or a more appropriate protector. Several of the following reflections have been long made; reasons of a private nature induced me to revise them; and a wish to promote a professional piety in an order of men, invaluable both in Church and State, (from whom I have received much grateful instruction) prompts me to lay them, with |