This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...before. Above all this, there loomed in men's minds the indelible memory of the martyrdom of King Charles. CHAPTER 11 THE FIFTH ENGLISH PRATER BOOK THE Savoy Confer-ence came to an end in July, 1661: before the Christmas of that year Convocation had com-pleted the Fifth Prayer Book, which is the book ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...before. Above all this, there loomed in men's minds the indelible memory of the martyrdom of King Charles. CHAPTER 11 THE FIFTH ENGLISH PRATER BOOK THE Savoy Confer-ence came to an end in July, 1661: before the Christmas of that year Convocation had com-pleted the Fifth Prayer Book, which is the book in use to-day in the Church of England; and the next year this was annexed to the Act of Uniformity. The preced-ing chapter has, we hope, shown the conditions un-der which the new Prayer Book was produced and the principles which actu-ated the revisers. These are stated with much clearness in the first of the present prefaces to the English Prayer Book, which was then added, and is called simply "The Preface." It was written by Sanderson, of Lincoln. Bishop Sanderson. Bishop The Principal Changes The changes described in this Preface are--I. (direcTions) for the better direction of the officiant, 2. (verbal) the alteration of obsolete phrases, 3. (scripture) the use of the Authorized Version, especially for the Epistles and Gospels, 4. (additions) some new prayers and thanksgivings, especially for use at Sea, and an order for the Baptism of Adults. These alterations are about 600 in number. Let us endeavour to summarize the more important under the four heads just mentioned. 1. Directions. Among the more important are: a rubric providing for the use of anthems at choir offices "in Quires and Places where they sing "; at Holy Communion, the rubric giving direction for the fraction and other manual acts, previously left to tradition, and two rubrics ordering that what remains of the Sacrament after the Communion shall be covered with a linen veil, and afterwards be reverently consumed; in Confirmation the Catechism was...
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