THE PREFACE HE following pages are to some extent a continuation of the line of study pursued in The Workmanship of the Prayer-Book. More attention is here given to the possible influence of German Service-Books (or Directories for Worship); and use has been made of the original (German) form of Archbishop Hermann's Deliberatio, with some interesting results. The paper on "Our Alms and Oblations appeared, almost as it stands, in the Journal of Theological Studies (vol. i.), and the discussion of the Minatory Clauses of the Athanasian Creed has also (with some few differences) already appeared in print, in pamphlet form. The discussion of some of the problems presented by the Prayer of Humble Access, added as an Appendix, appeared in the Irish Church Quarterly for January 1908. And much of what is said on the influence of the original form of Archbishop Hermann's work (as distinguished from the Latin Simplex ac pia Deliberatio) on our forms for Private Baptism may be found in an article contributed to the columns of the Guardian (21st August 1907). My thanks are tendered to the several Editors for permission to make use of these materials in the present volume. The first essay, it is hoped, may be of service to those of the younger clergy who may desire to place on their book-shelves some of the more important works which help to the elucidation of the history, structure, and meaning of the Prayer-Book. The opportunity may be taken here for correcting two errors in The Workmanship of the Prayer-Book, which were not discovered till after the appearance of the second edition. At p. 132 the collect for the first Sunday after Easter is wrongly attributed to Bishop Cosin; it is really the old Collect for Tuesday in Easter week, transferred in 1662 to the next Sunday. At p. 134 it is stated that before 1661 the Collect for Easter Day was used through the whole of Easter week, while, in fact, Easter Tuesday had its own proper collect. CONTENTS I. A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE CRITICISM AND DEFENCE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND OF LATER INQUIRIES INTO ITS SOURCES, STRUCTURE, AND MEANING II. OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE RELATIONS OF GERMAN CHURCH ORDERS, AND ESPECI- ALLY OF THE SAXON CHURCH Order of 1539, AND OF ARCHBISHOP HERMANN'S LITUR- GICAL WORK TO ARCHBISHOP CRANMER'S ; PAGE IV. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MATINS AND EVEN- SONG FROM THE OLD BREVIARY SERVICES; V. ON THE MEANING OF THE TERM "DIVINE SERVICE"; AND ON THE SENSE OF SOME OF I. The Source of the Suggestion for the Recitation of the Ten Commandments in the Communion Service of 1552 IV. What is the Meaning of "Our Alms and Oblations"? An Historical Study VI. The Time for the Departure from the Quire of the Church of Non-Communi- |