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This book explores the place of ritual in the life of the Christian Church, arguing that true ritual elevates the human heart to heaven, while its misuse keeps it fixed to earth. The author, a minister in the Church of England, posits that the goal of Christian ritual should be to help the faithful realize the great fundamental doctrines of grace, opposing the use of ritual as a vain attempt to bring heaven to earth. Drawing on the writings of the Church Fathers and other early Christian writers, the book places the modern debate over the use of ritual within a broad historical and theological context. The author contends that the elaborate rituals of the Western Church emerged at a time of widespread corruption, warning that placing too much emphasis on ritual and ceremonial splendor can distract from a genuine encounter with the Divine. This book is a thought-provoking examination of the place of ritual in Christian worship, urging readers to consider how ritual practices can hinder or enhance their spiritual growth.
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Strangers and pilgrims upon earth - convinced of sin by the teaching of God's Holy Spirit, yet knowing ourselves as baptized believers washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God, knowing the Divine love which has made us (who were in very deed God's outcasts, the Children of His righteous wrath) to be the very sons of God, and heirs of the kingdom of heaven - we travel through this wilderness, walking by faith, not by sight, seeking a city which hath foundations, whose maker and builder is God.
Standing fast in this faith, we are to be ever hearkening to the word of Apostolic inspiration - Forasmuch as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind. We may be thankful indeed for days of peace, we may bless God for being hurt by no persecutions, but we are ever to bear in mind that the normal condition of the Christian in this world is one of present suffering, of assured expectation of future glory.
As of old, God brought His people out that He might bring them in, brought them out from the house of bondage that they might know no rest till they entered the promised land of rest; so now Christ has brought us out that He may bring us in - brought us out from the Egypt of this world's Pharaoh, not that we may here be among the number of those who would be at ease in our Zion, delighting themselves in the invention of musical instruments like David, but that through a wilderness of woe He may bring us into His Father's house, where among its many mansions He is gone to prepare a place for us.
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It will be well if recent events may lead the minds of devout Churchmen away from the question of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of certain ceremonial observances to the consideration of a much higher and wider and more important subject - a subject which has been of late years far too little regarded - I mean the subject of the Use And Misuse Of Ritual in the worship which belongs to the Christian Church.
In venturing to submit some thoughts on this matter to the attention of Christians of the present day, let me say that I approach the subject not from the standpoint of Puritanism. I am aware, indeed, that appeal may be made to the writings of some of the Fathers in support of some of the Puritan positions. But I regret the hardness and severity with which Puritans obstinately (in face of lawful authority) sought to enforce their somewhat narrow and sometimes misguided persuasions, while I admire their faith fulness to the great fundamental doctrines of grace which they held in common with such Churchmen as Jewel and Hooker and Andrewes, in whose footsteps - not in the way of slavish following - I humbly desire to tread.
The true use of ritual - if I may express in one word what seems to me the true view - is to assist in raising earth to heaven. The abuse, or misuse, of ritual is the giving it over to the service of a vain attempt to bring heaven to earth.
The distinction needs explanation. The explanation may be brief.
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