A Manual of Instruction on the Prayer Book

George Wolfe Shinn

T. Whittaker, 1874 - 169 pages

Contents

• PREFACE: v
• INDEX: vii
• WHAT THE PRAYER BOOK IS: 9
• HOW TO MAKE GOOD USE OF IT: 11
• WHY WE USE FORMS OF PRAYER: 13
• HOW THE PRAYER BOOK CAME TO US FIRST: 16
• HOW THE PRAYER BOOK CAME TO US SECOND: 18
• THE PRAYER BOOK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: 21
• SOMETHING MORE ABOUT IT: 23
• THE TITLE PAGE: 26
• HOW THE SCRIPTURES ARE READ: 29
• How THE PSALTER IS READ: 32
• FEASTS AND FASTS: 34
• WORSHIP: 37
• THE SENTENCES AND EXHORTATION: 40
• CONFESSION: 43
• ABSOLUTION: 46
• THE LORDS PRAYER AND VERSICLES: 48
• THE CANTICLES: 51
• THE PSALTER: 54
• THE CHRISTIAN USE OF THE PSALMS: 57
• A COMPANION TO THE PSALTER: 59
• THE TE DEUM: 62
• THE BENEDICITE: 66
• THE CREEDS: 70
• SCRIPTURE PROOFS OF THE CREEDS: 73
• PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS: 76
• THE LITANY: 78
• THE ANTE COMMUNION SERVICE: 82
• THE COLLECTS: 85
• THE EPISTLES: 87
• THE GOSPELS: 90
• SERMONS: 92
• ALMS AND OBLATIONS: 95
• THE HOLY COMMUNION: 98
• THE BAPTISM OF INFANTS: 100
• THE BAPTISM OF ADULTS: 103
• THE CATECHISM: 105
• SCRIPTURE PROOFS OF THE CATECHISM: 108
• CONFIRMATION: 110
• HOLY MATRIMONY: 113
• THE VISITATION OF THE SICK: 115
• THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK: 118
• THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD: 120
• THE CHURCHING OF WOMEN: 123
• PRAYERS TO BE USED AT SEA: 125
• THE VISITATION OF PRISONERS: 127
• THANKSGIVING SERVICE: 131
• PRAYER IN FAMILIES: 132
• THE ARTICLES OF RELIGION: 135
• THE MINISTRY FIRST: 138
• THE MINISTRY SECOND: 141
• CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL: 144
• THE INSTITUTION OF MINISTERS: 147
• THE CONSTITUTION AND CANONS: 150
• QUESTIONS ON THE LESSONS: 155

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Manual of Instruction on the Prayer Book
• Author: George Wolfe Shinn
• Publisher: T. Whittaker, 1874
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Nov 17, 2010
• Length: 169 pages