Excerpt from A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England: With Collects and Prayers for Each Solemnity Thus it is the duty of all Christians to humble themselves before God with fasting and prayer fre quently to admire and adore the infinite wisdom and goodness of God in the mysteries of our redemption; thankfully to acknowledge those advantages we have received from the labours of the Apostles, who by miraculous gifts and graces were fitted to convert the world. But as to the certain seasons when these duties are publicly to be performed, and as to the way and manner of discharging them, that must be left to the determinations of our lawful governors; for what we are obliged to perform at some times, cannot be less a duty when lawful authority enjoins a certain time for the performing it. And if we con sider that the foreign Churches have preserved in their communion several festivals, and that the re mains of Christianity, which still subsist in the Greek Church are very much owing to the solemn obser vation of their feasts and fasts, there is not the least reason we should refuse obedience to such institutions as are owned by the Protestant Churches abroad, and have had so good an effect in a Church other ways overrun with ignorance under the oppression of infidels. 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.