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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of The Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, according to the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland: Together with The Psalter … to be Sung or Said in Churches
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An 1815 copy of the 1662 liturgy of The Book of Common Prayer
The FULL and UN-ABBREVIATED Title of this book
"The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of The Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, according to the Use of The United Church of England and together with The Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches."
"Printed by Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, printers to the University.
And sold by E Gardner, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London."
"Price 3s. in Sheets."
An 1815 copy of the 1662 liturgy of The Book of Common Prayer
The FULL and UN-ABBREVIATED Title of this book
"The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of The Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, according to the Use of The United Church of England and together with The Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches."
"Printed by Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, printers to the University.
And sold by E Gardner, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London."
"Price 3s. in Sheets."
- GenresNonfictionChristianity
406 pages, Leather Bound
First published January 1, 1662
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August 19, 2011
Published in the year of the Battle of Waterloo. In this volume the Prayer for the King's Majesty is addressed to King George III. The Prayer for the Royal Family is addressed to Queen Charlotte and George, Prince of Wales (who, five years later, succeeded to the throne as King George IV.
It's hard to describe what it feels like to regularly use a Prayer Book which is nearly 200 years old, and on which one almost feels the smoke and battle-dust of Waterloo hanging. That I can do so, shows the truly remarkable (even awesome?) longevity of the Church of England's 1662 liturgy; which is every bit as applicable to life in the twenty-first century as to the twentieth, the nineteenth, the eighteenth, and the seventeenth.
OK, there have been SOME changes over the years. This book also includes, at the back of the book, the following prayers; of which I've only ever heard of the second being in regular use today, and the fourth I find sad because George III ended his reign in unbalance of mind:
– A Form of Prayer With Thanksgiving, to be used yearly upon the Fifth Day of November, for the happy Deliverance of King James I, and the Three Estates of England, from the most traiterous and bloody-intended Massacre by Gunpowder: And also for the Happy Arrival of his Majesty King WILLIAM on this Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation.
– A Form of Prayer With Fasting, to be used yearly upon the Thirtieth Day of January. Being the day of the Martyrdom of the Blessed King Charles the First; to implore the mercy of God, that neither Guilt of that sacred and innocent Blood, nor those other sins, by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable men, may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity.
– A Form of Prayer With Thanksgiving, to Almighty God, For having put an end to the Great Rebellion, by the Restitution of the King and Royal Family, and the Restoration of the Government after many years Interruption; which unspeakable Mercies wonderfully completed upon the Twenty-ninth of May, in the Year 1660. And in Memory thereof of that Day in every Year is by Act of Parliament appointed to be for ever kept holy.
And lastly:
– A Form of Prayer With Thanksgiving, to Almighty God; To be used in all Churches and Chapels within this Realm, every Year, upon the Twenty-Fifth day of October; Being the Day on which His Majesty began his Happy Reign.
August 19, 2011
I have much the same feelings for this book as for another, smaller, copy I own, published in 1815.
This particular weighty tome may, from its size, have either been used as an Altar Book, or perhaps its owner simply had poor eyesight - one does rather take the excellent services of a modern optician, together with electric lighting, rather, and unthinkingly, for granted.
It should very much like to take this particular Prayer Book into the parish church of Whitby, in Yorkshire, England. High up on the east cliff above this coastal (once fishing port) town, the parish church, warmed by a coal fire, still has a full complement of Georgian period box pews. To quietly sit there and contemplate the six engraved plates: The Sacrament, The Last Supper, Baptism, Marriage, the Visitation of the Sick, and Funeral Service, would be a remarkable experience; made more so by the fact that their Christian life and witness continues today through the use of the 1662 liturgy.
This particular weighty tome may, from its size, have either been used as an Altar Book, or perhaps its owner simply had poor eyesight - one does rather take the excellent services of a modern optician, together with electric lighting, rather, and unthinkingly, for granted.
It should very much like to take this particular Prayer Book into the parish church of Whitby, in Yorkshire, England. High up on the east cliff above this coastal (once fishing port) town, the parish church, warmed by a coal fire, still has a full complement of Georgian period box pews. To quietly sit there and contemplate the six engraved plates: The Sacrament, The Last Supper, Baptism, Marriage, the Visitation of the Sick, and Funeral Service, would be a remarkable experience; made more so by the fact that their Christian life and witness continues today through the use of the 1662 liturgy.
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