Free book: "Primitive Worship and The Prayer Book", Appreciating Our (BCP) English Orthodox Liturgy
Dear Friend,
Please enjoy this highly uplifting book that expounds upon the value and origins of our English liturgy (Book of Common Prayer). This PDF is now in public domain (as it was published in 1917) and so is freely re-distributable such as found below. You can best get it as a book in print from amazon at the below links (highly recommended). [If you can't afford to buy a print copy from amazon, just send me an email describing a sincere expression of interest, and I will pay for your copy. We need to get these truths into as many hands as possible. Alternatively maybe you want a physical copy of Cosin's "Private Devotions" as compiled by the British church in 1560 - Read freely online or buy in print". If you are an Israelite and express a true interest, it's yours. I will send it because computerized versions aren't handy in such spiritual services. Our weapon is our prayer declarations of His covenants of victory for His mountain nation when it is our testimony, and when it is declared in unity (like in the established Biblical liturgies) of His whole temple together. Celebrating it, Praising and Thanking Him for His Glory He does in the earth through Christ and the inhabiting of the Holy Spirit that praises the Son! As it says we have complete victory "by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony" we overcome the devil in Rev 12:11, lets have that rightful testimony as the one body, and as living epistles. As we meditate on His word, and regularly say His covenants as He told us to say it, we will carry it out all the better.]
I believe all sincere Christians will be edified and encouraged by the following book. It covers many reasons, and arguments, many Biblical and even historical discourses for advancing the cause for using our English Orthodox liturgy in America. I believe such studies will encourage more to join together and assemble in churches that keep a sound Apostolic orthodox liturgy (like BCP).
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A most telling scenario of the mode of Worship in the First Century Church was demonstrated when Saint Stephen was selected. It gave the reason as being so that the liturgy services (the prayers, psalms, canonical or halachic hours, and Scripture readings / teachings etc) could be closer followed without interruptions of common life:
Acts 6:4 "But we (the Apostles) will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."Please pay special attention to those words and the context verses before and after it, being to not involve them with common tasks like the "daily ministration" to widows etc.
We must look at the tree that was bearing the fruit of the most miraculous time in the history of the church. The First Century Church made things happen with this attitude toward worship, utilizing the "temple or synagogue prayer services", and having order (even hierarchies) in the church. We especially know they utilized the prayers Christ gave us, and the Holy Communion [Kiddush Agape feasts, which could also land on any day when there were extra free will offerings from the altar, the standard "Thanks"(Eucharist) offerings of bread and wine at the Temple. Almost any bread or wine used in any Hebrew gathering was such as was extra offered on the altar with any of the free-will thanks(Eucharist) offerings. More on that potent and vast topic is discussed in other writings by OCC, and lightly touched on later in this article. As often as you do (offer), do it in remembrance of Me. We know Paul was offering a Lamb for a Nazarite vow 25 years after his conversion(Acts 24:5), and also like all the Apostles went up in respect at every Synagogue for their piety].
In the book "Primitive Worship and the Prayer Book" the original Hebrew (Synagogue) liturgies are laid out. The Scriptures confirmed Christ practiced these liturgies (prayers, songs & blessings) in unity.
His custom was to attend and faithfully participate in all the services. He was integrated into the liturgies. A big unquestionable part of the liturgy was the Shema Israel prayer. "Hear O Israel" Christ Himself even daubed it as the "greatest commandment" in Mark 12:29. [Daily the English Orthodox Church (as from the Anglican Missal) recites the "Shama Israel". The broader church body of Israel Christendom continues to do the Shama in some form, probably closer than the Jews do, as we do it when taking the holy communion, with its prayers and very similar blessings towards Christ, who is the purpose.]
Luke 4:16 "And He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read."
Acts 2:42 tells us the early Christians were "steadfast in breaking bread, ..Apostles doctrine ..and prayers" and in 2:46 "continued daily in one accord in the Temple".
This book however, "Primitive Worship and the Prayer Book" lays out that 2 services per day are enough for those who are not in a Monastery. We in contemporary Christianity today are mostly content to see everyone in church at least at God's commanded times on Sabbath. The more active English Orthodox churches today keep three services per day. Midday holding a communion service. The Apostles Didascalia admonishes the daily visits to church, as well as all seven prayer times to be observed. The Psalmist King David also wrote Psalm 119:164 "Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgements."
We are also very blessed to share with any who are interested, a copy of the "Private Devotions - Read freely online or buy in print" taken from our same liturgy as approved in 1560. Compiled by the very same liturgical scholars who formalized in our Book of Common Prayer, with all of its poetic beauty. These are very useful in our Orthodox dedicated holy spaces / Prayer closets that are established places in our homes. With these you can have the experiences of the traditional Divine Liturgy in their prime times in your very own home. Everyone is encouraged to make a set prayer space in their home, where you keep your Bibles or where the family also may join together (although children aren't required to do as many prayers as adults).
It may be that those praying such will have those promised Zion protections, as the world falls under judgement. It does say to enter into your closets for a little while, till the indignation be overpast. Isa 26:20 "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast." There may come a time that very few churches can at all join together in public worship. During those times we have these great tools. It would be best to put them to use while times are still somewhat good. Let us put these tools to use, filling our time with such orderly high praises to our God, the way our forefathers prayed.
Our order (OCC) agrees with the great witness of our book of Common Prayer that combines the seven canonical hours into the two services. We admonish those who can do more, to do more. Even the BCP itself says services are as per availability of priests (and these would also have a demand). However at least the home services could and should be done. A greater measure is especially for any of our members who would be deacons, deaconesses or in the priesthood. Those advancing in ministry of being "steadfast in the prayers", "continually in prayer", and "ministry of the word" in our Order, are to follow at least three of the Canonical Hours (Biblical prayer time) with lectionary readings, psalter etc in their daily regime.
Primitive Worship & the Prayer Book
Rationale, History and Doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American Books
By Walker Gwynne · 1917
Find out just how Biblical it is to follow an Orthodox Liturgy. The original seeds of prayers used in the First Century by the Apostles themselves have blossomed to our version used today. As it says, when they met constantly in the Temple and Synagogues, remaining "STEADFAST IN THE PRAYERS".
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES
PART I. - Rationale and History - CHAPTER PAGE 3 - NIGHT . - I. - PRACTICAL REASONS FOR A LITURGY " THE PRAYER BOOK. ” – Mr. GLADSTONE AND “MANY IM PROVEMENTS. " -Baxter's PRAYER Book MADE IN A FORT NECESSITY FOR A BOOK OF “ COMMON ” PRAYER . — CHANGE OF MIND AMONG DESCENDANTS OF PURITANS. PRO FESSOR HOPKINS ON A LITURGY FOR AMERICAN PRESBYTERIANS. - " The Book of COMMON WORSHIP ” PUBLISHED IN 1906. — INCREASING OBSERVANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN Year. - LITURGIC Usage A HERITAGE FROM Israel. — NECESSARY FOR PROTEC TION FROM IRREVERENCE, ECCENTRICITY, INCOMPETENCE, AND ERROR . — How CONGREGATIONALISTS OR INDEPENDENTS, AND PRESBYTERIANS Became UNITARIANS. — DR. W. R. HUNTING TON ON FORM AND CEREMONY. - 13 II. — THE AUTHORITY OF OUR LORD AND THE HOLY SCRIPTURES FOR A LITURGY. EVIDENCE OF THE Old TESTAMENT, AND OF THE CHURCH OF ISRAEL IN THE Time of Our LORD.— His “ CUSTOM ” As CHILD AND Man. – DR. EDERSHEIM ON THE SYNAGOGUE SERVICE IN NAZARETH, AND THE BURNING OF INCENSE IN THE TEMPLE. – Our Lord's PRECEPTS CONCERNING PRAYER . 23 III . - - " THEY CONTINUED STEDFASTLY IN THE PRAYERS" The Apostles Devout WORSHIPPERS IN SYNAGOGUE AND TEMPLE EVEN AFTER THE SETTING UP OF THE CHURCH. —No Lack of MATERIAL FOR A CHRISTIAN LITURGY. -" COMMON PRAYER " IN ACTS IV . - ALLUSIONS TO CHRISTIAN WORSHIP. PROBABLE xi - xii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGB QUOTATIONS FROM EARLY CHRISTIAN LITURGY AND HYMNS, IN THE Epistles. — No Full ACCOUNT TO BE EXPECTED IN THE New TESTAMENT. — FORMS NOT IN THEMSELVES PRAYERS, BUT VESSELS TO BE FILLED WITH PRAYER. - 31 IV. — “ THEY CONTINUED STEDFASTLY IN THE BREAK ING OF THE BREAD ” The BREAKING OF BREAD THE ONE ACT OF WORSHIP ORDAINED BY CHRIST. — Five WORDS APPLIED TO THE SACRAMENT IN THE New TESTAMENT. — 1. THE BREAKING OF BREAD . LORD's SUPPER. — 3. The EUCHARIST. —4. Holy Com MUNION. — 5. “ Eulogia ,” OR THE BLESSING. A New RITE, BUT THE FULFILMENT OF AN OLDER ONE. —The Change PRE PARED FOR BY OUR LORD IN S. JOHN VI. - INSTITUTED AT THE Last Passover, AND WITH THE ELEMENTS EMPLOYED THERE. BECOMES AT ONCE THE “ Daily " ACT OF WORSHIP IN THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH. - V. -CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES . 40 ALL WORSHIP IN THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES GATHERS AROUND The Holy Eucharist. — The ALTR OR HOLY Table. THE TEMPLE AND NOT THE SYNAGOGUE The Model. - CANON WARREN ON THE CHARACTER OF THE SYNAGOGUE. -OUR LORD's LANGUAGE AT THE CLEANSING Of The Temple. —The SACRI FICIAL CHARACTER OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP. —The PURITAN BAXTER ON THE WORD ALTAR . The EVIDENCE OF THE YOUNGER PLINY, JUSTIN MARTYR , THE DIDACHE, OR DOCTRINE OF THE APOSTLES, AND OF CLEMENT OF Rome. REASONS FOR THE ABSENCE OF EARLY WRITTEN LITURGIES. –The DISCIPLINA ARCANI. — REASONS FOR LACK OF REFERENCES TO CHURCH BUILDINGS. — EARLIEST ACCOUNTS IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH CENTURIES. 56 VI. -THE PARENT LITURGIES LITTLE DEVELOPMENT OF WORSHIP WHILE THE CHURCH IS UNDER THE BAN OF THE EMPIRE. - IN THE FOURTH CENTURY Sıx Chief CONTENTS xiii PAGE - CHAPTER LITURGICAL TYPES. —THE SYRIAN USED IN THE PATRIARCHATES OF JERUSALEM AND ANTIOCH. MANY REVISIONS AND ADAP TATIONS. —Those OF S. BASIL AND S. CHRYSOSTOM Most NOTED. — SOURCES OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SYRIAN LIT URGY . – THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THAT OF S. CHRYSOSTOM, AND PRAYER FOR THE FAITHFUL Departed . —The Chief Divisions of every LITURGY. – COMPARATIVE Table of Four PARENT LITURGIES, SHOWING THEIR UNMISTAKABLE ORIGIN FROM A SINGLE SOURCE. - - 70 . VII. - THE BRITISH AND IRISH LITURGIES THE BRITISH CHURCH FULLY ORGANIZED IH The Fourth Cen TURY. —The ANALOGY OF INDIA UNDER THE BRITISH, AND THE PHILIPPINES UNDER THE AMERICANS. –Two LANGUAGES, LATIN AND Gaelic, Spoken in Britain. —The British CHURCH INDEPENDENT OF ROME IN ORIGIN AND Mission. — The CHRISTIANIZING OF IRELAND BY S. PATRICK IN THE FIFTH CENTURY, AND OF SCOTLAND BY S. COLUMBA IN THE Sixth. Irish MISSIONS IN ENGLAND, THE CONTINENT, AND Even Ice - CATHOLIC IN DOCTRINE, AND PRACTICE YET INDE PENDENT OF ROME. — SIGNS OF THE CLOSE CONNECTION WITH THE GALLICAN CHURCH, AND OF DIFFERENCE FROM THE Roman. — The MILANESE AND THE SPANISH OR MOZARABIC LITURGIES. LAND . 82 - VIII. - GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH LITURGY . .. THE MISSION OF AUGUSTINE IN CANTERBURY. — The LITURGY HE PREPARED FOR HIS ANGLO - Saxon Converts (601). — The COUNCIL OF CLOVESHOO (747) ADOPTS A CANON REQUIRING THE Roman Use, BUT THE Celtic Retains its Hold. · The Use OF SCOTLAND TILL THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. — AT THE NORMAN CONQUEST ( 1066 ) MANY DIOCESAN " Uses. ” — Bishops Os MUND AND GOODE AND the Use of SALISBURY OR SARUM. - FIRST ATTEMPT AT REFORM OF THE Daily OFFICES IN 1516, AND FOR Holy COMMUNION IN 1533 . Close of the THIRD Great PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. DETERIORATION IN WORSHIP AND LIFE. —INFLUENCE OF New SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Diverse Uses TILL 1549. - xiv CONTENTS PAGE . 90 CHAPTER IX. —THE BEGINNINGS OF REFORM THE REFORMATION NO SUDDEN CATASTROPHE. SPREAD OVER MORE THAN Two HUNDRED YEARS ( 1450–1662). — STRONG PROTESTS AS EARLY AS THE ELEVENTH, TWELFTH , AND THIR TEENTH CENTURIES. — COUNCIL OF CLARENDON ( 1164 ). – “ MAGNA CHARTA ” ( 1215) . —No “CHURCH OF ROME” EVER IN ENGLAND. STATUTES OF “ PROVISORS" AND " PRAE MUNIRE." — ARCHDEACON (AFTERWARDS CARDINAL) MANNING ON THESE PROTESTS. —WORK AND CHARACTER OF WICLIFFE. - His TRANSLATION OF THE Bible. —The DESTRUCTION AND ROBBERY OF THE MONASTERIES. —The Good WORK OF CARDINAL Wolsey. BEGINNINGS OF REFORMATION IN Doc TRINE . — The USURPED AUTHORITY OF THE BISHOPS OF Rome REJECTED IN 1534. PUBLICATION OF The Great Bible" IN 1539. COMMITTEE OF Revision APPOINTED IN 1543. — RE VISED LITANY IN 1544. — HENRY VIII DIES IN 1547.
I. 66 98 - X. - THE FIRST REFORMED PRAYER BOOK . The New Book NOT A “ COMPILATION. ” — Many REVISERS IN The Past. — The CHIEF BOOKS OF WHICH THE BOOK IS A Revision. WHY SO Few OF THESE REMAIN. CAXTON The First ENGLISH PRINTER. — EDWARD VI ON THE THRONE. - Duke OF SOMERSET “ PROTECTOR.” SERVICE IN ENGLISH FOR COMMUNION IN 1548 . The Whole BOOK IN 1549 . No IRISH OR Welsh Version. - CONTENTS OF THE Book. — Com MUNION IN Both Kinds. PALMER ON This . — RESTORATION of the INVOCATION. -The ORDER OF THE SERVICE AND THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION . — THE CHARACTER OF THE FIRST Book. – Four OBJECTS IN View. - XI.- REACTION AND RESTORATION 1552–1662 . 109 Rise of PURITANISM . - New COMMITTEE APPOINTED BUT ONLY BY THE COUNCIL OF State . Book of 1552 WITHOUT AUTHOR ITY FROM THE CHURCH . - CHARACTER OF SOMERSET AND His Associates . — ROBBERY OF CHURCHES. – DR. MORGAN Dix ON THE SECOND PRAYER BOOK . CHIEF CHANGES FOR THE CONTENTS XV PAGE - CHAPTER WORSE . – EDWARD DIES AND THE BOOK Dies WITH HIM. OLD LATIN Service RESTORED AND PERSECUTION FOLLOWS. MARY Dies In 1558. – New Revision UNDER ELIZABETH . COMPROMISE RETAINING SOME CHANGES OF 1552. — ELIZABETH DIES IN 1603. — UNDER JAMES I SOME CHANGES IN 1604. – Book PROHIBITED BY PURITAN PARLIAMENT IN 1645. Savoy CONFERENCE IN 1660. — THE PRESENT BOOK ADOPTED BY BOTH CONVOCATIONS IN 1661. – By ENGLISH AND IRISH PARLIAMENTS IN 1662 AND 1666 . · WAKEMAN ON THIS REVISION AND THE EJECTMENT OF NONCONFORMIST MINISTERS. --- - . 120 . - XII. - THE SCOTTISH , AMERICAN, AND IRISH Re VISIONS . REVOLUTIONARY WORK OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT IN 1560 . " TULCHAN " BISHOPS. — EFFORTS IN THE Next HUNDRED YEARS TO RESTORE EPISCOPACY. — PRAYER BOOK OF 1637. — Its Use IN EDINBURGH CATHEDRAL. EPISCOPACY ABOLISHED ONCE MORE. UNDER Charles II EPISCOPACY AND LITURGY PARTIALLY RESTORED. — UNDER WILLIAM III AGAIN OVER THROWN IN 1689. — PRESBYTERIANISM ESTABLISHED. — “ The Catholic REMAINDER” OF EPISCOPALIANS UNDER PENAL Laws. - Revision OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK IN 1764. — CONSECRATION OF BISHOP SEABURY FOR AMERICAN CHURCH IN 1784. —The AMERICAN REVISIONS OF 1789 AND 1892. — Irish Revision OF 1877. — INTRODUCTION OF “ PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL " IN AMER ICAN Book. - OBJECTIONS TO THE Novel TITLE. - GROWTH OF MOVEMENT FOR RESTORATION SCRIPTURAL NAME. - APPENDIX WITH COMPARISON OF PRAYERS OF CONSECRATION, AND GENEALOGY OF LITURGIES OF ANGLICAN COMMUNION. 9 ) OF xvi CONTENTS 70 PART II. The Prayer Book and What it Teaches. CHAPTER PAGB 135 XIII. -The HOLY COMMUNION. — THE PREPARA TION OR PRO - ANAPHORA . Three CLASSES OF SERVICE IN THE PRAYER Book. 1. PUBLIC WORSHIP; 2. OCCASIONAL OFFICES FOR PRIESTS; 3. OCCA SIONAL OFFICES FOR Bishops. —The Holy EUCHARIST AN ORDINARY, NOT EXTRAORDINARY, SERVICE. — The “ LITURGY ” PROPER A GREAT PREACHING Service. - THE ORDINARY OR Pro - ANAPHORA, AND THE CANON OR ANAPHORA. COMMUNION ." —TITLE OF THE OFFICE IN THE FIRST Book. - ORIGIN OF “MISSA," OR Mass. BETTER TITLE, HOLY EUCHARIST. RUBRICS CONCERNING THE “ CURATE ," " Re PULSION," Place of the Holy Table, “ Fair Linen Cloth ," North OR “ Right” Side. —The Lord's PRAYER, AND USE OF ITALICS AND CAPITALS. —Ten COMMANDMENTS. “ ANTE . 145 1 1 XIV . -THE COLLECTS . COLLECTS, ETC., Show MIND OF THE CHURCH AS TO FREQUENCY OF CELEBRATION. —True Even of Good FRIDAY. — Collects PECULIAR TO The West. —The SONNET OF Devotion. ORIGIN OF THE WORD . — MOSTLY TRANSLATIONS FROM ANCIENT Use. — INVOCATION OF Saints. — CRANMER AS A TRANSLATOR. -ADDITIONAL COLLECTS IN SCOTTISH AND American Books. CANON BRIGHT AND LORD MACAULAY ON COLLECTS. — Appen dix SHOWING ORIGINAL SOURCES, AND CLASSIFICATION FOR PRIVATE USE. - - XV. - EPISTLES, GOSPELS, CREED, AND SERMON . . 154 Most OF EPISTLES AND Gospels AS IN Use OF SARUM. – PRINCIPLE of their SELECTION. —AT FIRST ONLY SELECTIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. RETAINED IN ARMENIAN AND Milanese LITURGIES. –ORIGIN OF THE EPISTLES OR “ APOST LES.” — SITTING AT THE EPISTLES, STANDING AT THE Gospels. -“Gloria Tibi. " — The EUCHARISTIC Creed. -ORIGIN OF THE " Filioque.” — BOWING AT THE SACRED NAME. -THE SERMON, AND THE BIDDING PRAYER . CONTENTS xvii CHAPTER PAGE GE 159 - 5 - XVI. —The OFFERTORY, PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH , EXHORTATION , AND INVITATION . OFFERINGS FOR SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH AND CLERGY. -ORIGIN OF ENDOWMENTS. · THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NOT “ STATE Paid . ” —The MIXED CHALICE. Unleavened BREAD . “ UNFERMENTED Wine." -THE CREDENCE. “ INDIVIDUAL Cups.” – PROTHESIS AND THE “ GREAT ENTRANCE ." . PRAYER FOR CHRIST'S CHURCH MILITANT. — COMMEMORATION OF AND PRAYER FOR THE FAITHFUL Departed . — WITHDRAWAL OF COMMUNICANTS. – The EXHORTATION COMMUNION. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN " NOTICE” AND “ WARNING." — “ YE THAT DO TRULY, ETC." — “ Kiss of Peace." - False INTER PRETATION OF THE INVITATION AS APPLYING TO ALL PERSONS CONFIRMED OF UNCONFIRMED . TO 167 - XVII. -CONFESSION, ABSOLUTION, COMFORTABLE WORDS No GENERAL CONFESSION IN ROMAN OR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LITURGY. –The “ CONFITEOR ” ONLY FOR THE CELEBRANT AND HIS ASSISTANTS. - The Use OF AN UNKNOWN Tongue PRE VENTED A GENERAL CONFESSION. - PRIVATE OR “ AURICULAR " CONFESSION . – VOLUNTARY IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH . – STILL VOLUNTARY IN ALL THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES. — ABSO LUTION AND THE “ MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION .” —The COMFORTABLE WORDS. - A FITTING Close OF THE PREPARA TION OR PRO - ANAPHORA. FOR - XVIII. —The CELEBRATION : ANAPHORA OR CANON 172 The “ SURSUM Corda . ” " SANCTUS" OR " TRISAGION .” PROPER PREFACES. — PREFACE TRINITY SUNDAY. PRAYER OF HUMBLE Access. — PRAYER OF CONSECRATION IN ENGLISA Book LACKING IN INVOCATION . — L'ESTRANGE ON THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE Revisers. - CORRECTED IN SCOT TISH AND AMERICAN Books. — " The CONTINUAL REMEM BRANCE.” -The “ ANAMNESIS " IN THE PASSOVER AND THE SHEW BREAD . —THE MEMORIAL OF MELCHIZEDEC AND THE - - xviii CONTENTS PAGE A CHAPTER Bow In The Cloud. — HYMN OF Canon BRIGHT. — " We " WITNESS TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF ALL THE PEOPLE. - BUT NO CONTRADICTION OF THE MINISTERIAL PRIESTHOOD. — LIDDON AND GORE ON “ SACERDOTALISM ." - XIX. -CHRIST'S PRESENCE IN THE HOLY COMMUNION 185 THE CHURCH HAS NO THEORY AS TO How. – TRANSUBSTANTIA TION. — ARTICLE XXVIII AND POPE GELASIUS. — CONSUB STANTIATION AND THE THEORY OF ZWINGLI. —All Theories EQUALLY OBJECTIONABLE. PRINCESS ELIZABETH . - THE Fact, AND NOT THE MANNER OF THE PRESENCE. – S. T. COLERIDGE AND HOOKER. —A Good Test -QUESTION. CANON Scott HOLLAND ON THE CENTRAL ACT OF PUBLIC WORSHIP . - . . 191 . XX . -COMMUNION AND Post - COMMUNION Self -EXAMINATION. Bishop C. WORDSWORTH, Bishop KING ‘ DON , Dr. Pusey, AND THE CONVOCATION OF CANTERBURY ON Fasting RECEPTION . — “ INTO THE Hands.” — Rule TAUGHT BY S. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM. VARIOUS CUSTOMS AS TO AD COMMUNICATE." - " Daily BREAD ." “ GLORIA IN Excelsis.” CONSUMPTION OF ELEMENTS, AND ABLUTIONS. RESERVED SACRAMENT. “ BLACK RUBRIC. " - MINISTRATION . - - 200 - XXI. — DAILY MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER : MATINS AND EVENSONG The SUCCESSOR OF THE DAILY PRAYERS OF THE TEMPLE AND SYNAGOGUE. — PRESERVED FOR THE PEOPLE ONLY IN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION. —THE RULE AS EARLY AS THE THIRD CENTURY. — IN THE FOURTH CENTURY INCREASED AND ELAB ORATED . UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE MONASTERIES DE VELOPED INTO SEVEN . IMPRACTICABLE FOR ORDINARY USE. - MATINS AND EVENSONG FORMED FROM THESE ON DEFINITE Plan . — SENTENCES OR “ CAPITULA," EXHORTATION, CONFE3 SION, CONCERNING Late - COMERS. ABSENCE OFFICE HYMNS. - ETC. OF CONTENTS xix PAGE 208 ) - CHAPTER XXII. -THE PSALTER Praise THE DOMINANT Note Of The Psalms. —THE " Venite,” OR INVITATORY. -OUR LORD's USE OF THE PSALMS ON THE Cross. - ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER AND S. AUGUSTINE ON THE PSALMS. –THE VALUE OF THEIR CONSTANT RECITATION . The “ IMPRECATORY” Psalms. · BISHOP BUTLER ON “ RE SENTMENT." - THE THEORY OF Moses MENDELSSOHN, AND OTHERS. PECULIARITY OF HEBREW POETRY FOR TRANSLA TION . — LIDDON ON CRANMER. PECULIARITY OF THE PRAYER Book TRANSLATION. —The DESIRABLILTY AND NEED OF ENG LISH Titles. —VALUE OF ANTIPHONS. —The ARRANGEMENT OF THE PSALMS FOR RECITATION. —The SCOTTISH PLAN. - METHODS OF SINGING. — HOOKER ON THE OBJECTIONS OF THE PURITANS. — Appendix 1: SUGGESTED ENGLISH TITLES FOR THE Psalms. — Appendix II: Music IN THE CHURCH. DUPAN LOUP AND DARWIN.- PLAIN SONG. -COUNCIL OF TRENT. PALESTRINA. — " AUTHENTIC " AND " PLAGAL” Modes. Mer BECKE, TALLIS, AND ANGLICAN CHANTS. — METRICAL HYMNS AND PSALMS. - 235 - - XXIII. -THE LESSONS AND CANTICLES SCRIPTURE LESSONS IN THE MEDIÆVAL SERVICES VERY Brief. – PLAN OF READING Old Testament Once Each YEAR, AND THE New Twice. - SOME PROPER LESSONS FIRST APPOINTED IN 1559. — CHANGES IN 1662. — In Use in AMERICA TILL 1789, IN ENGLAND TILL 1871. —The “ Te Deum ” A HYMNLIKE Creed . -The “ BENEDICITE. " - S. AUGUSTINE AND COLE RIDGE ON THE WITNESS OF NATURE TO GOD. ‘ BENEDICTUS " JUBILATE. " — EVENSONG AND NOT VESPERS The Name IN THE ENGLISH Book. —The “ MAGNIFICAT.” —ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER ON ITS AGE, LIDDON ON ITS CHARACTER. — “ Can TATE DOMINO," " Nunc DIMITTIS," AND " Deus MISEREATUR. " 60 AND XXIV. - THE CREED .. 245 Not Three Creeds. - Not A COMPOSITION OF Human Reason. - DIFFERENT FROM MODERN “ CONFESSIONS” IN ITS SIMPLICITY . - THE KEY OF ALL INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTIES. - A “ FORM XX CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE OF SOUND WORDS" EXISTING BEFORE THE New TESTAMENT. - A Necessity STILL FOR ALL. — R. H. HUTTON ON The Value OF THE CREED. — Its USE BY AN AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPLORER, BY A LITTLE CHILD, BY CATHARINE CRAUFORD TAIT. . 250 - XXV . -THE THREE CREEDS The Creed A SUMMARY OF Facts UNDISCOVERABLE BY HUMAN REASON. - CHRIST THE GREAT Creed - Maker. THE FORM OFTEN DIFFERED IN DIFFERENT Dioceses. THE SUBSTANCE ALWAYS THE SAME. – That Of AQUILEIA THE NORM OF THE West. — Its ANCIENT PLACE AFTER PSALMS AND Lessons. – The Nicene CREED IN THE LITURGY. Why FORMERLY SAID Secretly. —THE ORIGINAL OF THE NICENE PROBABLY THAT OF JERUSALEM AND CAESAREA. — Its ADOPTION AT Nice. —The ONLY QUESTION How BEST TO EXPRESS THE TRADITIONAL Faith. —THE ADDITIONS Made AT CONSTANTINOPLE, EPHESUS, AND CHALCEDON. THE “ Filioque , AND FROM THE Son ." ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER ON THE Nicene CREED. — The Creed OR HYMN OF S. ATHANASIUS. - HILARY OR VICTRICIUS ITS PROBABLE AUTHOR . — ACCEPTED AS A CREED ONLY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. —The “ DAMNATORY " Clauses. KEBLE ON THIS Creed. - When Used IN THE ENGLISH Book. Not PRINTED IN THE AMERICAN Book. — PRINTED BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR Public Use IN * THE Irish Book. . . 261 - XXVI. —THE PRAYERS, LITANY, AND OCCASIONAL PRAYERS The “ MUTUAL SALUTATION” AND VERSICLES. COLLECT FOR THE Day. - OTHER PRAYERS. AMERICAN REVISIONS IN 1789 AND 1892. — The LITANY OR ECTENE IN THE EAST AND West. - S. AUGUSTINE'S LITANY AT CANTERBURY. - Hooker's DEFENCE OF THE LITANY AGAINST THE PURITANS. . “ SUNG OR SAID . " In Five Divisions.- " FROM SCHISMS" ONLY INTRODUCED IN 1661 AFTER THE PURITAN AND Roman Sects FORMED IN 1568, 1570 , 1572, AND 1633. — ALL PETITIONS BUT Three ADDRESSED TO THE LORD Jesus. —THE AMERICAN CHANGES. -OCCASIONAL PRAYERS, ETC. - Need OF ADDITIONAL PRAYERS. 9 CONTENTS xxi PAGE . 272 CHAPTER XXVII. –ORNAMENTS OF THE CHURCH AND OF THE MINISTERS THEREOF Few Ritual DIRECTIONS IN THE BOOK OF 1549. — The “ ORNA MENTS RUBRIC" ADOPTED IN 1559 TO CORRECT THE ABUSES OF THE PURITANS. —The INTERPRETATION OF THE ENGLISH FINAL Court of Appeal IN 1857. —The Force of the ORNA MENTS RUBRIC IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH. - The Use of INCENSE AND LIGHTS. XXVIII. -The BAPTISMAL OFFICES 281 The SARUM OFFICE VERY COMPLICATED. —The SIGN OF THE Cross. - PURITAN OBJECTIONS. —The Gospel, AND THE RULE AS TO SPONSORS. - MODIFICATION IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH. -INFLUENCE OF ARCHBISHOP HERMANN's Revisions. IMMERSION POURING ALLOWED. HISTORICAL AND GRAMMATICAL REASONS FOR POURING. - The PROPER MINISTER. — LAY BAPTISM . — REGENERATION NOT CONVER SION. - BAPTISM OF INFANTS. — BAPTISM OF ADULTS. AND BOTH 295 - XXIX . —The CATECHISM INSTRUCTION OF CATECHUMENS IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH AND IN MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND. — PRACTICAL NECESSITY FOR SUCH A GUIDE TO " FIRST PRINCIPLES" INSTEAD OF MERE BIBLE Knowledge. —The Living CHURCH TO “ Teach ," the Bible THE CERTAINTY.” —THE BREVITY OF THE CATE ENLARGEMENT PROPOSED BY THE Lower House of CANTERBURY. CATECHIZING “ OPENLY IN THE CHURCH " SADLY NEGLECTED WITH Great Loss. —The Still More EXPLICIT DIRECTION BY CANON IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH. TO GIVE “ . CHISM. 303 XXX. - CONFIRMATION THOUGH NOT A SACRAMENT " GENERALLY NECESSARY TO SALVA TION, " NEVERTHELESS " ORDAINED BY CHRIST Himself . " Possesses " AN OUTWARD Visible SIGN AND AN INWARD SPIRITUAL Grace." -ONE OF Sıx “ PRINCIPLES OF Christ's DOCTRINE.” — CONFIRMATIONS IN SAMARIA AND EPHESUS. – Many ALLUSIONS TO CONFIRMATION AS " THE SEAL," " UNC 1 xxii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE TION, " " ANOINTING .” CONTINUOUS Use FROM THE BEGIN NING. —The True PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF CONFIRMATION. Not MERELY “ CONFIRMING" BUT “ BEING CONFIRMED.” The LAYMAN'S ORDINATION TO PRIESTHOOD. —THE MINISTER OF CONFIRMATION. -The ORIENTAL RULE. - NONE TO BE ADMITTED TO Holy COMMUNION UNLESS CONFIRMED, OR READY AND Desirous. — METHODS OF CONFIRMING. CANDIDATES. - - AGE OF - . 318 XXXI. -— SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY: MAR RIAGE AND DIVORCE VALID MARRIAGE NOT DEPENDENT ON SOLEMNIZATION. -A NATURAL UNION , “ ONE FLESH , " INDISSOLUBLE EXCEPT BY Death . - GRIEVOUSLY ABUSED AMONG THE Jews. —The Divine Law RESTATED BY OUR LORD. —ONLY ONE GROUND FOR “ PUTTING Away, ” NONE FOR REMARRIAGE. - The BOND NOT BROKEN BY ADULTERY, BUT ONLY PROFANED. – S. Paul's INTERPRETATION OF CHRIST'S COMMAND. —TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS AND OF THE FIRST TAree CENTURIES. The Cause of Loose Ideas IN THE EASTERN CHURCH. -THE STRICTNESS OF THE West, ESPECIALLY IN ENGLAND. — The Low TEACHING OF THE PROTESTANT LEADERS IN GERMANY, AND OF THE PURITANS IN ENGLAND. - The First Divorce COURT SET UP BY THE ENGLISH STATE IN 1857. —The Law of ENG LAND THAT OF AMERICA UNTIL THE REVOLUTION. — RAPID DETERIORATION IN EVERY STATE EXCEPT SOUTH CAROLINA. The Law of THE ENGLISH, IRISH , SCOTTISH , AND AMERICAN PRAYER Books RECOGNIZES NO DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE EXCEPT BY DEATH. — REMARRIAGE OF " THE INNOCENT PARTY ” IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH. — The VERDICT OF EXPERIENCE. SUM OF THE TEACHING OF THE New TESTAMENT. - . 333 XXXII. - SOLEMINZATION OF MATRIMONY : THE OFFICE . MARRIAGE AMONG CHRISTIANS CELEBRATED Religious Rites. — FORBIDDEN BY CUSTOM DURING LENT SINCE THE FOURTH CENTURY. - The PURPOSE OF BANNS AND LICENSE. — " IMPEDIMENTS ” AND THE Table OF PROHIBITED ALWAYS WITH - CONTENTS xxiii CHAPTER PAGE DEGREES. - DIRIMENT AND ECCLESIASTICAL IMPEDIMENTS. The MEDIÆVAL SERVICE BEGAN AT THE CHURCH PORCH. THE ESPOUSAL OR “ ENGAGEMENT.” THE NUPTIALS OR BE TROTHAL . “ The MAN ON THE RIGHT HAND. ” — " Obey ” . The RING. -OMISSIONS IN THE AMERICAN OFFICE. — HOOKER ON THE NUPTIAL COMMUNION. —The SCOTTISH PROVISION FOR A EUCHARIST. - . . 341 - XXXIII. -· VISITATION VISITATION AND COMMUNION OF THE SICK VISITATION REQUIRED IN Holy SCRIPTURE, AND PLEDGED IN ORDINATION Vow. THE SALUTATION OF Peace. “ SPECIAL CONFESSION" AND " ABSOLUTION " VOLUNTARY. ANOINTING OF THE SICK IN BOOK OF 1549. AUTHORITY OF OUR LORD AND OF S. James. —The LAMBETH CONFERENCE ON UNCTION OF THE SICK. — VARIATIONS IN AMERICAN, SCOTTISH , AND IRISH Offices. — COMMUNION OF THE SICK. - RESERVATION OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT. (See ALSO CHAPTER XX ). — RUBRIC CONCERNING “ SPIRITUAL COMMUNION. " - - XXXIV. BURIAL OF THE DEAD 349 INTERMENT THE CUSTOM OF BOTH THE JEWISH AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. CREMATION OR INCINERATION . — MEDIÆVAL SER VICES VERY ELABORATE. - BULK OF PRESENT Service FOUND IN THE Ancient Use. — “ IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, ETC. " – Its Use PECULIAR TO ANGLICAN COMMUNION. – VARIATIONS IN AMERICAN , IRISH, AND SCOTTISH OFFICES. BENEDICTION OF A GRAVE. — EUCHARIST AT BURIAL IN BOOK OF 1549. 356 XXXV. -OTHER OCCASIONAL OFFICES: CHURCHING OF WOMEN, ETC. . CHURCHING OFFICE VARIES LITTLE FROM THAT OF SARUM . –WAY Called “ CHURCHING . ” – VARIATIONS IN AMERICAN AND IRISH Books. — VALUE OF THE OFFICE. —The COMMINATION OFFICE PRACTICALLY IDENTICAL WITH THE MEDIAEVAL Use. – WHOLLY OMITTED BY THE AMERICAN CHURCH IN 1789. —THE SUPPLICA TIONS WITH SOME ADDITIONS RESTORED IN 1892 AS A “PENITEN xxiv CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE TIAL OFFICE." - FORMS OF PRAYER FOR Use at SEA. AMERI CAN AND IRISH OFFICE FOR VISITATION OF PRISONERS. — FAMILY PRAYERS IN AMERICAN BOOK . Three SERVICES OMITTED FROM ENGLISH BOOK IN 1859. . . 363 - XXXVI. —The ORDINAL : THE WITNESS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE PREFACE. —OUR LORD EVER LOYAL TO PRIESTHOOD OF JEWISH CHURCH. His METHOD OF PREPARING FOR His Own CHURCH. - Chooses Twelve AS His MASTER BUILDERS. —TRAINS AND EMPOWERS THEM. Gives COMMANDMENTS" WHICH ARE ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR Acts. — “APOSTOLIC SUC CESSION ” SEEN FROM THE BEGINNING. — The Second ORDER, ELDERS, PRESBYTERS, OR Priests. Bishop, MEANING OVER SEER, APPLIED AT FIRST TO Both APOSTLES AND PRESBYTERS. CONFINRD LATER TO APOSTLES. —THE THIRD ORDER, Deacons. 66 1 THEM 372 XXXVII. -THE ORDINAL : THE WITNESS OF ANCIENT AUTHORS ALL CHURCH WRITERS IN THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES AGREE IN REGARDING The Three ORDERS AS OF Divine AUTHORITY. Clement, IGNATIUS, POLYCARP, HEGESIPPUS, Irenaeus. —THE HOSTILE JUDGMENT OF GIBBON . - HOOKER'S CHALLENGE TO THE PURITANS. — Diocesan EPISCOPACY AND APOSTOLIC SUC CESSION TWO Distinct Things: EVEN IN THE SIXTH CENTURY DIVISION INTO DIOCESES WAS NOT FOUND IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN SCOTLAND. - S. JEROME'S STATEMENT. — A Suc CESSION THROUGH PRESBYTERS NOT RECOGNIZED ANYWHERE. ONLY Two THEORIES Exist AS TO THE MINISTRY. - THE UNSOUNDNESS OF THE NON -Catholic Theory SEEN IN DISSIDENCE OF Dissent. " THE 385 XXXVIII. -- The ORDINAL : IMAGINED DIFFICUL TIES IN THE SUCCESSION SUCCESSION NOT A CHAIN, BUT A NET-WORK . ANALOGOUS TO ALL Civil GOVERNMENT. - CONSECRATION BY Three BISHOPS WITH KNOWLEDGE OF ALL BISHOPS IN THE PROVINCE. Rule CONTENTS XXV PAGE . CHAPTER OF COUNCIL OF Nice. SUCCESSION OF BISHOPS BETTER ATTESTED THAN THE SUCCESSION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. " UNWORTHINESS OF MINISTERS” NO BAR. —Article XXVI, AND BISHOP GORE. — PREFACE ONLY States UNASSAILABLE HISTORICAL Facts. —The STRANGE INTERPRETATION OF “ IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, ” OR “ IN THIS CHURCH . ” —The Gain WON BY Self -CONSTITUTED MINISTRIES NO COMPENSATION FOR THE Terrible Loss THAT COMES FROM DISUNION. — The Vast MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS STILL RETAIN THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY. —The DECLARATION OF THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE OF 1888 . - 393 - - - - XXXIX . -ORDINALS PRIMITIVE, MEDIÆVAL, AND MODERN THE ORDINAL ALWAYS EMBEDDED IN THE OFFICE FOR HOLY COMMUNION . — THE WITNESS OF THE EARLY CHURCH ORDERS. - PRAYER WITH LAYING ON OF HANDS The ESSENTIAL ACT OF ORDINATION. - DIFFERENCES OF USAGE AT ORDINATION OF BISHOPS. The Normal FORM OF PRAYER FOR BISHOPS AND PRIESTS. Prieste UNITE IN ORDINATION OF PRIESTS. DEACONS ORDAINED BY BISHOP ALONE. — MEDIÆVAL ORDINALS OVERLAID BY CUSTOMS WHICH OBSCURED THE True NATURE OF ORDINATION. — “ BESTOWAL OF THE INSTRUMENTS.” — BOR FEUDAL CUSTOMS. OTHER CEREMONIES TENDED | TO CONFUSION. — COMPARISON PRESENT ROMAN ORDINAL WITH THE PRESENT ENGLISH. The Revised ORDINAL ISSUED IN 1550. — Few CHANGES IN 1552. - FORM FOR CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL ADDED TO THE AMERICAN BOOK IN 1799, AND TO THE IRISH IN 1877. —The OFFICE OF INSTITUTION OF MINISTERS Added TO THE AMERICAN BOOK IN 1804. —THE ARTICLES OF RELIGION, - APPENDIX GIVING OUTLINE OF SARUM ORDINAL. ROWED FROM - WHICH - OF THE . . . 405 XL. -CONCLUSION The APOSTOLIC LITURGY. –TRACED TO ALL ENGLISH SPEAKING LANDS. - Its Many TRANSLATIONS, AND MANY HUMAN STRAINS. — CRANMER'S WORK AND His DIFFICULTIES. GREATNESS AND HIS INFIRMITIES. Canon Mason's ESTIMATE His xxvi CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE OF THE MAN. - SUMMARY OF ABUSES REMEDIED AND BENEFITS GAINED. — THE LARGE Place GIVEN TO HOLY SCRIPTURE. DR. DÖLLINGER'S COMMENT ON Tais. CREDIT DUE TO THE PURITANS. - THE SUPERB LITERARY STYLE OF THE Book THOUGH LARGELY A TRANSLATION. —THE JUDGMENT OF LIDDON , MACAULAY, AND A ROMAN CATHOLIC WRITER . —Yet STILL CAPABLE OF IMPROVEMENT AND ADAPTATION TO New CONDITIONS. INDEX 413
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