It is perfectly free both from the adulation and from the malignity by which such compositions were in that age too often deformed, and sustains, better perhaps than any occasional service which has been framed during two centuries, a comparison with that great model of chaste, lofty, and pathetic eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer.

The Lords went in the morning to Westminster Abbey.

The Commons had desired Burnet to preach before them at Saint Margaret's.

He was not likely to fall into the same error which had been committed in the same place on the preceding day.
His vigorous and animated discourse doubtless called forth the loud hums of his auditors.

It was not only printed by command of the House, but was translated into French for the edification of foreign Protestants.
[653] The day closed with the festivities usual on such occasions.