Excerpt from Notes, Questions and Answers on the Collects: For the Sundays and Principal Holy Days; Revised and Adapted to the American Prayer Book Natal - The Collect for the Third Sunday in Advent is even more modern than those for the two preceding Sundays. It was drawn up in A. D. 1661. Up to 1661 the Collect for the day was a translation of the following ancient form of prey er. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.