Audrens Church 4.28.47 PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION. IN putting forth this revision, probably the last, of THEOPHILUS ANGLICANUS, the Author cannot forego the pleasure of recording, with feelings of devout thankfulness to the Giver of all good, that in its first passing through the Press, about a quarter of a century ago, the sheets were revised by two mutual friends, whose memory will be ever most dear to the Writer, the late JOSHUA WATSON, Esq., and his own revered father, the late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and that, on its first appearance, it was honoured with the written sanction of the Archbishop in whose Province it was published, ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY, and with that of the Bishop of the Diocese, BISHOP BLOMFIELD. It has been reprinted in America, with modifications suitable to the circumstances of the case, under the title of THEOPHILUS AMERICANUS, by a learned American lawyer, Mr. H. DAVEY EVANS, of Baltimore. The work has been translated into Modern Greek, 1847; and has been published in French, with a valuable preface, by the Rev. Dr. F. GODFRAY, at Paris, 1861; and it has also been printed in Italy, under the title of IL TEOFILO CATTOLICO, at Turin, in 1863. Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, July, 1865. II. On the Attributes of the Church as visible and militant, and as invisible and triumphant ∞222 VIII. On Privileges in the Church: Due Administration of the Sacraments by a lawful Ministry IX. On the Three Orders of Ministers in the Church ་ |