THE

MONTHLY PACKET

OF

EVENING READINGS

FOR

Younger Members of the English Church.

VOLUME VII.

Nos. XXXVII. TO XLII. JANUARY-JUNE, 1854.

JOHN AND CHARLES MOZLEY, 6, PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND J. H. PARKER, OXFord.

1854.

House of Lords, A Peep at the Interior of the

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MONTHLY PACKET

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No. XXXVII.]

JANUARY, 1854.

[PRICE 6d.

A QUIET CONSCIENCE.

THIS month, which is full of the memory of the martyr-king, we think an appropriate time for the following beautiful verses, from 'Fawkes's Poetical Calendar,' there said to be from King Charles's own pen.

'Close thine eyes and sleep secure,
Thy soul is safe, thy body sure;
He that guards thee, He that keeps,
Never slumbers, never sleeps.
A quiet conscience in the breast,
Has only peace, has only rest;
The music and the mirth of kings,
Are out of tune unless she sings,

Then close thine eyes and sleep secure.'

COMMENTS ON THE PRAYER-BOOK.

My motive in offering these papers, is to induce the members of the Church to emulate the zeal expressed in the 48th Psalm, and 'walk about Zion, go round about her, and tell the towers thereof. Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after; for this God is our God, for ever and ever, and He will be our guide unto death.'

If in Christ Jesus dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and if His own Word declares that His Body is the Church, the Spirit which abides in this Body must be that of Eternal Truth; so that on entering its hallowed enclosures, you should bear in mind that a greater than the temple is within.' And if the generation that walked