A

CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL

ELUCIDATION

OF THE

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE

SACRAMENTS,

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE

United Church of England and Ireland.

BY THE LATE JOHN SHEPHERD, M. A.

MINISTER OF PATTISWICK, ESSEX.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

THIRD EDITION OF VOL. I.-SECOND EDITION OF VOL. II. CORRECTED, WITH A BRIEF
MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.

Turpe est viro id, in quo quotidie versatur, ignorare.

DURAND.

We should be very solicitous rightly to apprehend the sense and fitness of what
we say and do in God's Worship.

ABP. SECKER.

London:

Printed by R. & R. Gilbert, St. John's Square;

FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1817.
LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

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GEORGE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN

WITH A DEEP SENSE OF HIS CONDESCENSION AND KINDNESS

IN PERMITTING THIS DEDICATION;

WITH THE MOST SINCERE RESPECT FOR

HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHARACTER

AND WITH THE WARMEST GRATITUDE FOR THE PATRONAGE

WHICH HIS BENEVOLENCE HAS CONFERRED

AND THE LIBERALITY WHICH HIS EXAMPLE HAS EXCITED

IN BEHALF OF THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY;

THESE VOLUMES

THE WORK OF THEIR LAMENTED FATHER

ARE ACCORDING TO HIS REPEATED WISH

MOST DUTIFULLY INSCRIBED.