 | Wyllys Rede - 1893 - 222 pages
...described the first Prayer-book of the English Church, which contained numerous prayers for the dead, as " a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the Primitive Church, and very comfortable to all Christian people desiring to live in Christian conversation." It cannot therefore... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1893 - 478 pages
...the ministers and mistakers than of any worthy cause," and it declared the First Prayer Book to be " a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church, very comfortable to all good people desiring to live in Christian conversation, and most profitable... | |
 | William Henry Hutchings - 1897 - 298 pages
...Act of Uniformity which ratified that Prayer Book, described the First Prayer Book as containing " a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of GOD, and the Primitive Church, very comfortable to all good people," &c., and that in the First Prayer Book prayers for the departed... | |
 | William Henry Cavanagh - 1899 - 220 pages
...second Book of 1552 ; yet the act of uniformity which established this book speaks of the former one " as a very godly order agreeable to the word of God, and the primitive Church," and condemned the changes made in 1552 as due merely to " doubts for the fashion and manner of the administration... | |
 | Vernon Staley - 1900 - 284 pages
...orthodoxy of the First Book of 1549, in which the holy table was called the altar ; describing the latter Book as "a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church." 1 Dr. Pusey, in The Tracts for the Times, No. 81, gives a long series of quotations, occupying more... | |
 | Reginald Ernest Hutton - 1902 - 438 pages
...was declared by Act of Parliament to have been written " by the aid of the Holy Ghost," and to be " a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church ") prayers for the departed were plainly worded, so that there could not be, as in the later Prayer-books,... | |
 | John Wildman Moncrief - 1902 - 468 pages
...on April 6, 1552. As the old book had many champions its merits were recognized as follows: "It is a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive church, very comfortable to all good people desirous to live in Christian conversation, and most profitable... | |
 | William John Knox-Little - 1905 - 356 pages
...by the curiosity of the minister and mistakers than of any worthy cause," and it described the first book as a " very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church." But Cranmer was labouring to fall in with the views of the German and Swiss heretics ; and so the Prayer... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1919 - 932 pages
...1897, p. 537 f.). And the Act of Uniformity of 1552 expressly declared that the First Book of 1549 was 'a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church.' In the Second Book of Homilies, on the other hand, the homily on prayer repudiates prayers for the... | |
 | Dyson Hague - 1893 - 298 pages
...unquestionably, that the act authorizing the Second Book of Common Prayer spoke of the Book of 1549 as "a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church . . . and most profitable to the estate of this realm " : for certainly the differences were profound in every... | |
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Ed. vi. c. 1), could not forbear saying that it was " a very godly order, agreeable to the Word of God and the primitive Church... 
