Excerpt from A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter: At the Triennial Visitation in June, July, August, and September, 1842 Reverent Brethren, In looking back on the years which have passed, since we first met on such an occasion as this, the prevailing sentiment, in the hearts of all of us, must be that of humble and fervent thankfulness to our divine Head, who has enabled us not only to retain the outward form of a National Church, in spite of all the dangers by which we were at one time menaced, but also to aspire to a higher and wider sphere of spiritual action; while we are cheered and stimulated in our ministrations by the increased, and daily increasing, sympathies of the people - by the calm, intelligent, and active co-operation of many of the most eminent of all orders of men around us - and, above all, by the manifest indications of a general yearning for a deeper and fuller insight into the way of God's salvation - into the nature, too, the powers, the privileges, the blessings, of the Holy Catholic Church, the true ark of deliverance from the perishing world around us, which His infinite wisdom and mercy have prepared, "that in the dispensation of the fulness of time, he might gather together in one all things in Christ." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.