SPECULUM EPISCOPI. THE MIRROR OF A BISHOP. Inspicere tanquam in SPECULUM, in vitas omnium Jubeo- TER. ANDR. LONDON: EDWARDS AND HUGHES, 12, AVE-MARIA LANE, ST. PAUL'S. 1848. SPECULUM EPISCOPI. THE MIRROR OF A BISHOP, In undertaking a review of the Episcopal qualities by which the church of England and Ireland may have been signally benefited at any one distinct period, we are cheered with the reflection that the lustre of many lights, which hitherto have been obscured or scattered, will be concentrated in a single MIRROR; and that the pattern of what a good Christian BISHOP ought to be, if he be fitted to cope successfully with the present evil times, will be submitted to public attention. We know the cost at which this labour must be undertaken; we have reckoned it, and are prepared to pay it to the uttermost farthing; for he who would speak boldly, and with truth, upon matters connected with "dignitaries," their duties, their functions, their faults, their errors, and their defects, B |