The Ritual Movement

Without further preface, I would, in all solemnity, read this precept as addressed to us, brethren, to the clergy and laity of the Anglican Church of this present day, and as one which for the glory of God, and the edifying of ourselves, it is most needful to fix in our remembrance and to observe with all strictness.  And did I design my teaching to be merely general, I know no more useful theme to which to address myself; for as like the Corinthians we Anglicans have been distinguished by God, in that He has poured out upon us conspicuous and super-excellent gifts and privileges, so like them are we constantly distinguishing ourselves by strifes, irregularities, and miserable assertions of self’s importance and self’s wilfulness unparalleled, I believe, by Romans, Greeks, or dissenters.