Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Period of the Reformation, Volume 3

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Longmans, Green & Company, 1910 - Great Britain
 

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Page 385 - This book is a preservation photocopy. It is made in compliance with copyright law and produced on acid-free archival 60# book weight paper which meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper) Preservation photocopying and binding by Acme Bookbinding...
Page 247 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc.
Page 16 - That they shall take away, utterly extinct, and destroy all shrines, covering of shrines, all tables, candlesticks, trindles or rolls of wax, pictures, paintings, and all other monuments of feigned miracles, pilgrimages, idolatry, and superstition : so that there remain no memory of the same in walls, glass windows, or elsewhere within their churches or houses.
Page 169 - Every minister saying the public prayers, or ministering the sacraments or other rites of the church, shall wear a decent and comely surplice with sleeves, to be provided at 'the charge of the parish.
Page 15 - Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, and other holy-days, according to God's holy will and pleasure, and the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalf ; that is, in hearing the word of God read and taught ; in private and public prayers ; in acknowledging their offences to God, and amendment of the same ; in reconciling themselves charitably to their neighbours, where displeasure hath been ; in oftentimes receiving the communion of the body and blood of Christ ; in visiting of the...
Page 380 - CLUB exists in order to encourage and assist in the practical study of ceremonial, and the arrangement of Churches, their furniture and ornaments, in accordance with the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer, strict obedience to which is the guiding principle of the work of the Club.
Page 203 - Then, the foolish people they look, they stare, they laugh, they fleer, and mount upon forms and pews to see these goodly pageants solemnized in this sort. Then, after this, about the church they go again and again, and so forth into the churchyard, where they have commonly their...
Page 28 - Ye shall pray for Christ's holy catholic Church, that is, for the whole congregation of Christian people dispersed throughout the whole world, and especially for the Churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland...
Page 26 - For certainly her majesty neither doth, nor ever will challenge any other authority, than that was challenged and lately used by the noble kings of famous memory, king Henry the eighth, and king Edward the sixth, which is, and was of ancient time due to the imperial crown of this realm...
Page 248 - Wore. we^ placed, a comely and decent table standing on a frame, (1569). for the Holy Communion, with a fair linen cloth to lay upon the same, and some covering of silk, buckram, or other such like for the clean keeping thereof, a fair and comely Communion cup of silver, and a cover of silver for the same, which may serve also for the ministration of the communion bread...

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