"Manual" in size and appearance, entitled, "A Conference between the Soul and Body concerning the Present and Future State;" with a strong recommendation to the public from Dodwell, one of Ken's intimate friends, and perhaps, among all the Nonjurors, the person with whom Ken had the strictest agreement. No Hymns were appended to the first edition of this book; but to the second (1705) there were added two "Morning" and "Evening" Hymns, with Bishop Ken's name as their author. The text of these Hymns differed, in many points, by alteration, transposition, and omission, and also by the addition of two new and incongruous stanzas at the end of the "Evening Hymn," from that of the "Manual;" but it adhered to the text of the prior Editions of the "Manual" in most of those passages, which were afterwards altered in the "Manual" of 1712: and the only alterations which it had in common with those, afterwards found in the "Manual" of 1712, are the word "joyful," (in the third line of the Morning Hymn,) instead of "early;" the words "All praise," instead of "Glory," (in the first line of the Evening Hymn); and a change in the order of two words, ("Thou not," instead of "not Thou,") in the thirty-seventh line of the Morning Hymn.
Upon the appearance of this publication, the Bishop's publisher, Charles Brome, inserted in an edition of the "Manual" which he issued in the same year, 1705, an advertisement, stating, that the Bishop "absolutely disowned" the Hymns appended to the "Conference," and that "the genuine ones" were "to be had only of Charles Brome, bookseller, whose just property the original copy is." Notwithstanding this disclaimer, another book, called a "New Year's Gift," appeared in 1709; in which the text of the two Hymns, printed in the "Conference," was again given as Ken's. Brome met this publication (as he had done that of the "Conference") immediately issuing a new edition of the "Manual," with the same text as before; and repeating his advertisement.
The Bishop died on the 19th March, 1711 (new style). The early editions of the "Manual" were numerous,
