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The 1662 Book of Common Prayer [note 1] is an authorised liturgical book of the Church of England and other Anglican bodies around the world. In continuous print and regular use for over 360 years, the 1662 prayer book is the basis for numerous other editions of the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgical texts.
The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or said in churches: And the Form and Manner of Making, ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and ...
An 1863 American edition of Common Prayer for Christian Worship, which initiated a departure from the 1662 prayer book's pattern in subsequent English Unitarian prayer books Clarke's alterations would eventually inspire several revised prayers books for Presbyterian -influenced congregations and become the basis for what historian G. J. Cuming ...
The Act also required that the Book of Common Prayer "be truly and exactly Translated into the British or Welsh Tongue". It also explicitly required episcopal ordination for all ministers, i.e. deacons, priests and bishops, which had to be reintroduced since the Puritans had abolished many features of the Church during the Civil War.
The 1662 prayer book mandated by the 1662 Act of Uniformity was a slightly revised version of the previous book. [111] Many Puritans, however, were unwilling to conform to it. Around 900 ministers refused to subscribe to the new prayer book and were removed from their positions, an event known as the Great Ejection. [112] Puritans became ...
Free and Candid Disquisitions [note 1] is a 1749 pamphlet written and compiled by John Jones, a Welsh Church of England clergyman, and published anonymously. The work promoted a set of specific reforms to both the Church of England and its mandated book for liturgical worship, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Book of Common Prayer (1928, England), an official and partially authorised revised version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England; Book of Common Prayer (1928, United States), an authorised liturgical book of the U.S. Episcopal Church in use with some Continuing Anglican bodies; Book of Common Prayer, commonly known as the ...
Articles related to the Book of Common Prayer, a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The first prayer book , published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England , was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome .