Excerpt from Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Occasional Offices of the Church of England According to the Ancient Use of Salisbury, the Prymer in English, and Other Prayers and Forms, With Dissertations and NotesBy the word Breviary we are to understand an arrangement of certain Divine Offices, constructed out of Prayers, and Psalms, and Hymns, and canticles, and Lessons taken from the sacred Scriptures or writings of the holy Fathers, which was authorized and ordained to be continually performed before God, at certain hours of the day and night throughout the year, by and for the Church.'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.