Author: COMBER (Thomas):
Title: A Companion to the Temple: Or, A Help to Devotion In the Use of the Common Prayer. Divided into Four Parts. Part I. Of Morning and Evening Prayer. Part II. Of the Litany, with the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings. Part III. Of the Communion Office, with the Offices of Baptism, Catechism, and Confirmation. Part IV. Of the Occasional Offices, viz. Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, &Uc. The whole being carefully Corrected, and now put into One Volume.
Description: London, Printed by S. Roycroft, for Joan. Brome, R. Littlebury, R. Scot, R. Clavell, G. Wells, and R. Lamberts..., 1684. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Folio, 315 x 198 mmx., pp. [viiii], 427 [428 blank], [8], 228, [8], 243 [244 blank], title-page in red and black, each part with separate title, later 18th century panelled calf, red leather label; some slight damp-staining to margins, with six leaves frayed at margins, corners worn, but generally a good copy with the armorial bookplate or the organist and composer Thomas Chilcot of Bath (c. 1707 - 1766), dated 1757, on the front paste-down end-paper, and on the verso of the front free end-paper, the bookplate of Arthur Biggs. The musicologist Gwilym Beechey calls this Thomas Chilcot "one of the most distinguished musicians in the West Country in eighteenth-century England" Thomas Comber (1645–1699), dean of Durham and liturgist, studied a number of subjects at Cambridge and was ordained deacon on 18 August 1663, enabling him to embark on his impressive career as Church of England polemicist and liturgical scholar. A Companion to the Temple proceeded by various degrees to this first, complete edition, with the first part being published in 1672 and no doubt his greatest work: "a detailed commentary on the Book of Common Prayer designed to promote its public and private devotional use. It was to prove a massive and enduring monument: the 1841 edition ran to seven volumes, the shortest of which is 366 pages long, and it had a wide readership and influence among clergy and laity within Comber's own lifetime. It was hardly a work of detached scholarship, beginning to appear as it did while Charles II's declaration of indulgence was in force and peppered as it was with polemical asides against both Rome and protestant dissent" (ODNB).

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