The Cathedral, Or, the Catholic and Apostolic Church in England (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1843 Excerpt: ... HOLY SCRIPTURE. I. Its consolations and guidance as supplied in the Daily Service. II. The same continued. III. Its secret meanings. IV. Disclosed to obedience, and in the day of visitation. V. Tlte fall--Abraham. VI. The wilderness--Canaan. VII. The varied teaching in Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. VIII. The Prophets under temporal evils disclosing Christ. IX. The kingdom of Heaven upon earth. X. Christ's Presence in His Church. XI. Forerunners of the Day of Judgment. XII. A confessional prayer. Our mirror is a blessed book, Where out from each illumin'd page We see one glorious Image look All eyes to dazzle and engage. The Christian Year. I. "A little further lend Thy guiding hand," A little onward, Heaven-descended Guide This scene will soon be o'er, where Hope and Fear Busily twine the thread of hurrying life; And this strange house, where the o'er-arching blue Bends o'er us, from whose dark aerial caves The Day and Night, on Time's alternate watch, In solemn interchanges come and go, And Winter and swift Summer hasten by So stilly; soon its portal will be past, --E'en now my shadow on the mountain side Is lengthening, --hues of Evening o'er me fall. Thy guiding hand a little further on, Whate'er Thou art that thro' unravelling time Leadest me on for oft Thy hand I feel, And tho' amid life's solitudes I droop Unmindful, oft beside me in the gloom, And oft'ner still behind, 'mid travell'd scenes As back I bear my view, celestial tracks I see, and " skirts of an unearthly friend." Yet not so much, that, while I wondering tread Th' unfoldings of Thy silent Providence, Thou giv'st to feel Thy kind withholding chain, And gentle leading;--not so much for this, I thank Thee, heavenly Father, Friend, and Lord, As that each morn and eve, that hasten on My days...