The English Liturgies of 1549 and 1661

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Excerpt from The English Liturgies of 1549 and 1661: Compared With Each Other and With the Ancient Liturgies The liturgy of 1549 was for the most part a genuine attempt to reproduce in an English form the essential features of the ancient Latin service of the Holy Eucharist. It was superseded in 1552 by another in which its various parts were rearranged and its language was considerably altered with a view to giving greater prominence to the reception of Holy Communion by the worshippers, as distinguished from the offering of eucharistic worship, and in all its main features this is the service which we still retain. But on two occasions it was set aside for a few years, first in favour of the Latin Missal during the reign of Mary and afterwards in favour of the Puritan Directory under the Commonwealth, and on each occasion when it was brought back into use, first in 1559 after the accession of Elizabeth and secondly in 1661 after the restoration of Charles II., it underwent revisions in which some of the features of the ancient service were restored. The purpose of the present treatise is first to compare together the short-lived rite of 1549 and that of 1661 as we now have it, and in order that the force of the alterations may be rightly understood it is necessary to indicate when and how they were introduced in the successive revisions. Besides this, the two rites are examined in relation to the general body of liturgies of the ancient churches, and more especially to the use of Sarum which was the immediate precursor of the rite of 1549 and the principal source from which its substance was derived. But this purpose cannot be adequately carried out without an attempt to trace upward the lines of the general liturgical order which all the churches have handed down, and to connect this with the original Institution of the Holy Eucharist by our Lord Himself as it is recorded in Holy Scripture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.