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338 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT faith first enjoining love then working by love All speculation concerning mysteries is vain and worthless unless it influence the affections yea and the whole course and method of our life Lights were indeed placed in the firmament of heaven hut it was that they might shine and fulfil their allotted course for the benefit of the earth III -$a5't01nl Ojcotogn Upon what principles ought an order for Public Worship to be constructed What according to those principles should be the chief elements of such an order and what their relative position State briefly the chief causes of the corruptions in' the worship of the Church against which the Reformers had to contend and the principal remedies employed by them The use and abuse of Symbolism in worship What Symbolic acts retained in the First Prayer Book of the Reformed English Church have been omitted in subsequent revisions The history of Litanies and the circumstances connected with their introduction into the Western Church Compare the Liturgies of the Church of England before and after the Reformation What were the chief omissions and what the chief introductions subsequent to the change What new service was introduced into the Prayer Book after the Savoy Conference What light does it throw on the state of the English nation and the prospects of the English Church at that time Mention the chief methods which the preacher may adopt in enforcing Ethical Truth Illustrate each method by reference to text of Scripture and brief outline of sermon on it State briefly the rules which ought to govern the preacher in his choice of words in the structure of his sentences On what doctrines would you chiefly insist if called upon to minister among population infected by Infidel by Anabaptist Errors