A Companion to the Altar, Or an Help to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper, by Discourses and Meditations Upon the Whole Communion Office

A Companion to the Altar, Or an Help to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper, by Discourses and Meditations Upon the Whole Communion Office
Author: Thomas Comber
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781333985783

Excerpt from A Companion to the Altar, or an Help to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper, by Discourses and Meditations Upon the Whole Communion Office: To Which Is Added, an Essay Upon the Offices of Baptism and Confirmation I. When the Mini er hath given notice of the Sacrament, t. For your In ruaion in all; My ery, and preparar Part. Ill.se&. Ll. 5. R, 2. 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."

Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel

Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel
Author: Kevin Seidel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108853080

Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping the Bible after the Enlightenment. This book challenges that teleological conception of literary history by focusing on scenes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fiction where the Bible appears as a physical object. Situating those scenes in wider circuits of biblical criticism, Bible printing, and devotional reading, Seidel cogently demonstrates that such scenes reveal a great deal about the artistic ambitions of the novels themselves and point to the different ways those novels reconfigured their readers' relationships to the secular world. With insightful readings of the appearance of the Bible as a physical object in fiction by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne, this book contends that the English novel rises with the English Bible, not after it.