RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, &c.

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES of AMERICA.

BY ANDREW FOWLER, a. m.

RECTOR OF CHRIST-CHURCH SHREWSBURY, AND CHRIST-CHURCH

MIDDLETOWN, NEW-JERSEY.

30

BURLINGTON, N. JERSEY,

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY S. C. USTICK.

1805.

[COPY-RIGHT SECURED.]

PREFACE.

THE design of the following pages is to shew the beauty, harmony, excellency, and usefulness of the Book of Common Prayer; and to render the whole sufficiently clear and intelligible to the meanest capacity.

That such a performance is, much wanted, cannot be denied; for it is too well known, that the Book of Common Prayer is very little understood by some, and very negligently used by others, even of our own communion; and that our opponents have, from time to time, raised a variety of objections against it, hoping thereby to lessen its credit, and to bring it into disuse.

The consideration of these great evils has led me to publish this Expo