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Friday, June 22, 2007
Birthday of the Elizabethan Prayer Book (BCP)
Today is the 448th anniversary of the publication of Queen Elizabeth I’s Prayer Book, a.k.a. the 3rd edition of the Book of Common Prayer.
“This Book was a conservative revision of the 1552 edition, with the effect of making it somewhat less ‘Protestant,” says the introduction at the Anglican Resource Collection. An excerpt from the order for morning and evening prayer, with Scripture citations, in the original spelling:
AT what tyme soever a synner doth repent him of his sin from the bottome of hys harte; I wil put al his wickednes out of my remembraunce sayeth the Lord.
Ezek. xviii.I do know mine awne wickednes, and my syne is alwaies against me.
Psalm li.Turne thy face awaye from our sinnes (O lorde) and blotte out all our offences.
Psalm li.A sorowful spirite is a sacrifice to God: despise not (O Lorde) humble and contrite hartes.
Psalm li.Rende your hartes, and not your garmentes, and turne to the Lorde your God, because he is gentle and mercyful, he is pacient and of muche mercie, and such a one that is sory for your afflictions.
Joel ii.To the, O Lorde God belongeth mercies and forgevenes: for we have gone away from the, and have not harkened to thy voice, whereby we myght walcke in thy lawes, whiche thou hast appoincted for us.
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