Excerpt from The Liturgy and Other Divine Offices of the Church God hath redeemed us; but we have lightly esteemed this redemption. We have all neglected this great salvation, and have provoked God to cast us off. He has called all men to serve and to obey Him, but they did not like Him to reign over them. He has given to us all in our baptism His Holy Spirit, but we have resisted His motions within us. He gave to His Church precepts and ordi nances, by which the Body of Christ might be edified to the perfect Man, the measure of the stature of His fulness 3 but we and our fathers have despised them, and followed our own imagi nations: wherefore confusion has been wrought in the house of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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