RITES.--Importance of them above Ritual--Serious departure of the
English Church from primitive practice--Abeyance of Weekly
Celebration--Proofs that Weekly Communion is part of the Divine
Ordinance--Practical advantages of restoring it--Origin and
history of the present unsound practice--Vigorous protest of the
English Church against it--Difficulties in the way of a
reformation, how to be met--Recent Eucharistic excesses--Worship
addressed to Christ as enshrined in the Elements--Proof that this
was not the primitive doctrine or practice--Recent origin of it
among ourselves--Non-communicating attendance unknown to
antiquity.
RITUAL.--Law of the English Church about it, how ascertainable--
Vestments--An alternative recognised--The Vestment Rubric
preserved--The Surplice permitted--Ritual advance at the present
day--Choral Festivals--Church Decoration--History and rationale of
the Eucharistic Vestments, and of the ordinary ones--Position of
the Celebrant--Two lights on the Altar--Incense--The "Mixed
Chalice"--The Crucifix--Minute ceremonial disallowed by the
English Church--Suggestions as to the present controversy--Hopeful
circumstances, and grounds of union.
1.--APPENDIX A. Opinions of the BISHOP OF EXETER on certain
points of Doctrine Page 101
2.--APPENDIX B. Former judgment of the BISHOP OF EXETER on
Vestments 103