Excerpt from A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England: With Collects and Prayers for Each Solemnity But thus much we certainly owe, not only to the justice of our principles, but out of respect to those that are not friends to the constitution of the church; for how can we supposetheywillbeprevailedupontoobservedsys, when we payno regard to them ourselves; or ifwhenwe dis tinguish them from other days, it is only by our vanities and follies, by our excess and intemperance, by dedicating them to pleasure and diversion, when piety and devofion, the great end and design of their institution, is so much neglected. 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.