Excerpt from Life in the English Church: 1660-1714The title of this work tells its own tale. All therefore that is necessary in the way of Preface is a grateful acknowledgment of the help and encouragement I have received in the execution Of my task. I am indebted to Dr. R. Garnett, Of the British Museum, who not only lent me cheerfully the aid he was always ready to accord to students, but took the pains, unasked, to search out mss. Bearing on my subject, to the Rev. Churchill Babington, Whose name is well known in connection with the clergy of the latter part of the seventeenth century, and who kindly assisted me with his valuable advice, to the late Bishop Christopher Wordsworth, whose letters to me on the subject are among my most treasured relics, and, last but not least, to my Wednesday evening Congregation at Epworth Church, who will recognise in these pages much that they have heard from the pulpit, and who unwittingly emboldened me to present the work to theipublic, by the interest which they expressed in what they heard.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.