Praise
1. The Minister AMEN form The Collects Prayer of
offers and the Consecration
People endorse in Holy
it Communion (see
1 Cor. xiv. 16)
2. Minister and Responsorial, Hymn at Sursum Corda
People pursue or Ordination of in Holy
different lines INTERJECTIONAL Priests Communion
interrupting form Preces before Versicles
one another Collects before
Psalms
3. The Congregation Antiphonal, "From our The Psalms
form two or ANTHEM enemies, &c." in Mattins
companies which form --8 verses in and
reply to one the Litany Evensong
another
4. The Minister LITANY The main body
names the subject form of the Litany
and the People
offer the prayer
(or praise)
5. A portion of PRECEDED The Lesson and
Holy Scripture prayer or Commandments Canticle
is read and the praise in Holy
prayer or praise Communion
completes it as
an Act of Worship
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APPENDIX A.
Cartwright, attacking the Prayer Book, 1572 or later, wrote--
"For the singing of Psalms by course and side after side, although it
be very ancient yet it is not commendable, and so much the more to be
suspected for that the Devil hath gone about to get it so great
authority, partly by deriving it from Ignatius' time, and partly in
making the world believe that this came from heaven, and that the
Angels were heard to sing after this sort," &c.
To this Hooker (_Eccl. Polity_, v. xxxix. 1) replies--
"And if the prophet David did think that the very meeting of men
together and their accompanying one another to the House of God should
make the bond of their love insoluble, and tie them in a league of
inviolable amity (Ps. lv. 14); how much more may we judge it reasonable
to hope that the like effects may grow _in each of the people towards
other_, in them [Sidenote: Anthem] all towards their pastor, and in
their pastor towards every of them, between
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