...wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her public Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in...much easiness in admitting, any variation from it.' " Strange that a sentiment, worthy of being written in letters of gold, should have ceased to have...

...wisdom of the Church of England ever since the first compiling of her public Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much laxness in admitting, any variation from it" — and it "is but reasonable, that upon weighty and important...

...the Church of England, ever aluce in« (Ira t compiling оГ ! hör publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in...refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any Tariation from tt. For, as on the one Bide common experience sheweth, that where а change hath been...

...wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her public liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in...admitting, any variation from it ; ' for as, on the one hand, some changes have done more harm than the mischief they were meant to cure, ' so on the other...

...keep the mean between the two extreme*, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much cashless in admitting any variation from it For, as on the one side common experience sheweth, that where a change hath been made of things advisedly established (no evident necessity so...

...Liturgy, to keep the mean hetween the two extremes, 1 of too mueh stiffness in refusing, and of too mueh easiness in admitting any variation from it For, as on the one side eommon experienee sheweth, that where a ehange hath heen made of things advisedly estahlished (no evnlent...

...humbly submit to your Majesty, in the language of the preface to our " Book of Common Prayer," that " experience showeth that where a change hath been made...sundry inconveniences have thereupon ensued, and those more and greater than the evils that were intended to be remedied by such change." That accordingly...

...predecessors in this form, and it is the endeavour of those who now conduct them "to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much "stiffness in...of too much easiness in admitting "any variation." The object aimed at is to keep up a permanent institution for helping forward practical spiritual life...

...mean has to be preserved. " It hath ever been the wisdom of the Church of England to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing and of too much easiness in permitting any variation from our Liturgy." We acknowledge an evolution of religious thought and expression....

...been the wisdom of the Church of England," says the preface of the Prayer Book, "... to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in...much easiness in admitting any variation from it." That, comments the Baltimore Evening Sun, seems to have been the guiding hand in the making of the...