Tracts for the Times

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 Tract No. 1 ( Ad Clerum ) Thoughts  On  The Ministerial Commission,  Respectfully Addressed to the Clergy

 Tract No. 2 The Catholic Church

 Tract No. 3 Thoughts  Respectfully Addressed to the Clergy On Alterations in the Liturgy

 Tract No. 6 ( Ad Populum ) The Present Obligation of Primitive Practice

 Tract No. 7 The Episcopal Church Apostolical

 Tract No. 8 The Gospel a Law of Liberty

 Tract No. 10 Heads of a Weekday Lecture, Delivered to a Country Congregation in shire

 Tract No. 11 (Ad Scholas) The Visible Church

 Tract No. 15 On the Apostolical Succession in the English Church

 Tract No. 19 On Arguing concerning the Apostolical Succession

 Tract No. 20 (Ad Scholas) The Visible Church

 Tract No. 21 (Ad Populum) Mortification of the Flesh a Scripture Duty

 Tract No. 31 (Ad Clerum) The Reformed Church

 Tract No. 33 (Ad Scholas) Primitive Episcopacy

 Tract No. 34 (Ad Scholas) Rites and Customs of the Church

 Tract No. 38 (Ad Scholas) VIA MEDIA No . I.

 Tract No. 41 (Ad Scholas) VIA MEDIA No. II.

 Tract No. 45 (Ad Clerum) The Grounds of our Faith

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 Tract No. 47 (Ad Clerum) The Visible Church

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 Tract No. 71 (Ad Clerum) IV. ON THE MODE OF CONDUCTING THE CONTROVERSY WITH ROME

 Tract No. 73 (Ad Scholas) II. On the Introduction of Rationalistic Principles into Revealed Religion

 Tract No. 74 (Ad Populum) Catena Patrum No. I. Testimony of Writers in the later English Church to the Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession

 Tract No. 75 (Ad Clerum) On the Roman Breviary as Embodying the Substance of the Devotional Services of the Church Catholic

 Tract No. 76 (Ad Populum) Catena Patrum No. II. Testimony of Writers in the later English Church to the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration

 Tract No. 79 On Purgatory (Against Romanism. No. 3.)

 82 LETTER ADDRESSED TO A MAGAZINE ON BEHALF OF DR . PUSEY'S TRACTS ON HOLY BAPTISM AND OF OTHER TRACTS FOR THE TIMES

 Tract No. 88 The Greek Devotions of Bishop Andrews, Translated and Arranged

 Tract No. 90. VII. Remarks on certain Passages of the Thirty-nine Articles

Tract No. 75 (Ad Clerum) On the Roman Breviary as Embodying the Substance of the Devotional Services of the Church Catholic

Teach her to know and love her hour of prayer,     And evermore,     As faith grows rare,  Unlock her heart, and offer all its store,     In holier love and humbler vows,     As suits a lost returning spouse.

 T HERE is so much of excellence and beauty in the services of the Breviary, that were it skilfully set before the Protestant by Roman controversialists as the book of devotions received in their communion, it would undoubtedly raise a prejudice in their favour, if he were ignorant of the circumstances of the case, and but ordinarily candid and unprejudiced. To meet this danger is one principal object of the following pages; in which, whatever is good and true in those Devotions will be claimed, and on reasonable grounds, for the Church Catholic in opposition to the Roman Church, whose only real claim above other Churches is that of having, on the one hand, preserved the Service with less of mutilation or abridgment, and, on the other, having adopted into it certain additions and novelties, ascertainable to be such in history, as well as being corruptions doctrinally. In a word, it will be attempted to wrest a weapon out of our adversaries hands; who have in this, as in many other instances, appropriated to themselves a treasure which was ours as much as theirs; and then, on our attempting to recover it, accuse us of borrowing what we have but lost through inadvertence. The publication then of the selections, which it is proposed presently to give from these Services, is, as it were, an act of re-appropriation. Were, however, the Breviary ever so much the property of the Romanists, by retaining it in its ancient Latin form, they have defrauded the Church of that benefit which, in the vernacular tongue, it might have afforded to the people at large.

 Another reason for the selections which are to follow, lies in the circumstance, that our own daily Service is confessedly formed upon the Breviary; so that an inspection of the latter will be found materially to illustrate and explain our own Prayer-Book.

 It may suggest, moreover, character and matter for our private devotions, over and above what our Reformers have thought fit to adopt into our public Services; a use of it which will be but carrying out and completing what they have begun.

 And there is a further benefit which, it is hoped, will result from an acquaintance with the Breviary Services, viz. that the adaptation and arrangement of the Psalms therein made, will impress many persons with a truer sense of the excellence and profitableness of those inspired compositions than it is the fashion of this age to entertain.

 Lastly, if it can be shown, as was above intimated, that the corruptions, whatever they be, are of a late date, another fact will have been ascertained, in addition to those which are ordinarily insisted on, discriminating and separating off the Roman from the primitive Church.

 With these views a sketch shall first be given of the history of the Breviary; then the selections from it shall follow.

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 It would be unbecoming to go into this detail in this place, were not a prejudice entertained against these Tracts by many who know them only by a few detached sentences, complete indeed in themselves, and on the whole not unfairly selected, but which, so detached, will not be understood in their true sense and bearings by readers unacquainted with the language of our old divinity. Dr. Pusey's valuable Pamphlet in answer to one objector, is, with the kind consent of the Author, appended to this Advertisement