Excerpt from The Position of the Celebrant at the Holy Communion, as Ruled by the Purchas Judgment: Considered in a Letter to the Lord Bishop of Winchester Of legal inquiry, they are to be regarded as so many portions of a penal statute, i.e., of the Act of Uniformity, and are therefore to be interpreted, like all other penal statutes, in their strictest literal and grammatical construction so that, in fact, no one can properly be condemned and punished on the strength of any mere inference from such Rubrics, unless that inference ows from them as a matter of absolute and inevitable necessity. 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."