Note 1 — THE LORD'S PRAYER AND THE CHURCH.

Can this Gospel of Christ be put into such plain words and short terms as that a plain man may understand it?—and, if so, would it not be, in a quite primal sense, desirable that it should be so, rather than left to be gathered out of Thirty-nine Articles, written by no means in clear English, and referring, for further explanation of exactly the most important point in the whole tenour of their teaching,1 to a "Homily of Justification,"2 which is not generally in the possession, or even probably within the comprehension, of simple persons?