A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England:: Being the Substance of Every Thing Liturgical in Bishop Sparrow, Mr. L'Estrange, Dr. Comber, Dr. Nichols, and All Former Ritualists, Commentators, Or Others, Upon the Same Subject; Collected and Reduced Into One Continued and Regular Method, and Interspersed All Along with New Observations |
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... seem fully to be countenanced by the Form itself ( as I have fhewed at large upon the place ) , and particularly by the inhibition of Deacons from pronouncing it : which to me is an argument that our Church de- figned it for an Effect ...
... seem fully to be countenanced by the Form itself ( as I have fhewed at large upon the place ) , and particularly by the inhibition of Deacons from pronouncing it : which to me is an argument that our Church de- figned it for an Effect ...
Page 109
... seems to have an eye to the old practice of reading prayers in the choir . But this ru- bric being the fame that we have in King Edward's fe- cond Common Prayer Book , may perhaps have flipt into the prefent book through the ...
... seems to have an eye to the old practice of reading prayers in the choir . But this ru- bric being the fame that we have in King Edward's fe- cond Common Prayer Book , may perhaps have flipt into the prefent book through the ...
Page 117
... seems to be a vulgar " mistake , which makes the Deacons deviate from their " rule , and omit either the whole , or elfe a part of this " form , or perhaps exchange it for a collect taken out of " fome other part of the Liturgy 7 ...
... seems to be a vulgar " mistake , which makes the Deacons deviate from their " rule , and omit either the whole , or elfe a part of this " form , or perhaps exchange it for a collect taken out of " fome other part of the Liturgy 7 ...
Page 162
... seems , by the repeated ufe of it , to have delivered to the church to be used instead of that old Jewish form , with which the priest under the Law difmiffed the congregation . The reafon of its being changed was undoubtedly owing to ...
... seems , by the repeated ufe of it , to have delivered to the church to be used instead of that old Jewish form , with which the priest under the Law difmiffed the congregation . The reafon of its being changed was undoubtedly owing to ...
Page 172
... seem prefumptuous for us to thod and pray for others , who are unworthy to pray for ourselves , before we begin , we acknowledge that we are finners : but yet , if we are penitent , we know our prayers will be acceptable and therefore ...
... seem prefumptuous for us to thod and pray for others , who are unworthy to pray for ourselves , before we begin , we acknowledge that we are finners : but yet , if we are penitent , we know our prayers will be acceptable and therefore ...
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Page 299 - Gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again; hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee, and grant that we, receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed Body and Blood...
Page 284 - The custom seems to have gone on this principle, that supreme happiness is not to be expected till the resurrection ; and that the interval between death and the end of the world is a state of imperfect bliss. The Church might, therefore, believe her prayers for good people departed might improve their condition, and raise the satisfactions of this period.
Page 152 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint : my heart is like wax ; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Page 57 - She was condemned to be debauched in the public stews before her execution, but her virginity was miraculously preserved by lightning and thunder from heaven. About eight days after her execution, her parents going to lament and pray at her tomb...
Page 34 - Scriptures, and the rest are the expressions of the first and purest ages ; so that whoever takes exception at these must quarrel with the language of the Holy Ghost, and fall out with the Church in her greatest innocence ; and in the opinion of the most impartial and excellent Grotius, (who was no member of, nor had any obligation to, this Church,) the English Liturgy comes so near to the primitive pattern, that none of the Reformed Churches can compare with...
Page 379 - The first question concerns only mens. heathen converts : for, as for the children of believing parents, it is certain, that as they were baptized in infancy, so they were admitted catechumens as soon as they were capable of learning.
Page 218 - On the first day of Lent, the penitents were to present themselves before the bishop clothed with sackcloth, with naked feet, and eyes turned to the ground : and this was to be done in the presence of the principal of the clergy of the diocese, who were to judge of the sincerity of their repentance. These introduced them into the church, where the bishop, all in tears, and the rest of the clergy, repeated the seven penitential psalms.
Page 479 - ... such a case. As to the coroner's warrant, I take that to be no more than a certificate that the body is not demanded by the law, and that therefore the relations may dispose of it as they please. Tor I cannot apprehend that a coroner is to determine the sense of a rubric, or to prescribe to the minister when Christian burial is to be used.
Page 283 - GOD, and placed before Him upon the holy table, it is a proper time to proceed to the exercise of another branch of our charity, I mean that of intercession. Our alms perhaps are confined to a few indigent neighbours ; but our prayers may extend to all mankind, by recommending them all to the mercies of GOD, who is able to supply and relieve them all.
Page 294 - Therefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.