As the design of the Church, in all her proper services, from Christmas to Epiphany, appears to be to set forth the humanity of the Saviour, and to manifest him in the flesh; so, during the Sundays after the Epiphany her design appears to be to display his divinity, by recounting to us in the Gospels, some of his first miracles and manifestations of divine power. The design of the Epistles is to excite us to imitate CHRIST as far as we can, and to manifest ourselves to be his disciples, by a constant practice of all Christian virtues.
[Excerpt from John Henry Hobart, A Companion for the Book of Common Prayer, Containing an Explanation of the Service, 82. 1859.]
