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"THE PRAYER BOOK."- MR. GLADSTONE AND "MANY IM-
PROVEMENTS."-BAXTER'S PRAYER BOOK MADE IN A FORT-
NIGHT. - 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.

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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.

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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.

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- ALLUSIONS TO CHRISTIAN WORSHIP.- PROBABLE

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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.

IV. "THEY CONTINUED STedfastly in the Break-

ING OF THE BREAD"

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NEW TESTAMENT.

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THE BREAKING OF BREAD THE ONE ACT of Worship ORDAINED

BY CHRIST. FIVE WORDS Applied to the Sacrament in THE

- 1. THE BREAKING OF BREAD.

-2. THE

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.

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CANON

ALL WORSHIP IN THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES GATHERS AROUND
THE HOLY EUCHARIST. - THE ALTAR OR HOLY TABLE.
TEMPLE AND NOT THE SYNAGOGUE THE MODEL.
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.

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LITTLE DEVELOPMEnt of Worship while the CHURCH IS UNDER

THE BAN OF THE EMPIRE. - In the Fourth CENTURY SIX CHIEF

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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.

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TURY.

THE BRITISH CHURCH FULLY ORGANIZED IN THE FOURTH CEN-
-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-
LAND. - CATHOLIC IN DOCTRINE, AND PRACTICE YET INDE-
PENDENT OF ROME. - SIGNS OF THE CLOSE CONNECTION WITH
THE GALLICAN Church, and of Difference from the RomanN.—
THE MILANESE AND THE SPANISH OR MOZARABIC LITURGIES.

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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. —

DIVERSE USES TILL 1549. — 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.

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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.

VISED LITANY IN 1544.- HENRY VIII DIES IN 1547.

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X. THE FIRST REFORMED PRAYER BOOK

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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.

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RESTORATION

OF THE INVOCATION. THE ORDER OF THE Service and THE
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. - THE CHARACTER OF THE FIRST
Book. FOUR OBJECTS IN VIEW.

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XI. REACTION AND RESTORATION 1552-1662 . . .

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

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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.

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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

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ONCE MORE. UNDER CHARLES II EPISCOPACY AND LITURGY
PARTIALLY RESTORED. UNDER WILLIAM III AGAIN OVER-
THROWN IN 1689. PRESBYTERIANISM ESTAablished. "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 OF SCRIPTURAL NAME. -
APPENDIX WITH COMPARISON OF PRAYERS OF CONSECRATION,
AND GENEALOGY OF LITURGIES OF ANGLICAN COMMUNION.

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