The consecration of the eucharist : a study of the prayer of consecration in the communion office from the point of view of the alterations and amendments established therein by the revisers of 1789

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INTRODUCTIO XIstitutos for that instituted orShip, ut ni a reverentandieuom in appendages O t. But whilo the great witnes of tho Churchinas and ost praeti ali undi videi a to this ci a standiri protost against his modern depravation O Christian Orshil, it is notis clear in regari to another aspect O tho ueharistio Sacrifieo, a to hiel there has ouae t bo an ulmost qualWantis appreciation. And that the fore of the Churoli 'stostimon to the truth in his respeet has been omeWhatim patred may perhaps, e larget due to tho disti gr00ment botw00n Eas and est O many centuries a to that question hielicit is ou endeavour in the folloWin pages toeluei dato the question, amely, of the ut os involi ingili Hol Spirit pon the oblations o Broad and in intho Eucharistio Ossering. There are Wo essentiali distinet, though mutuallyoperatin functions of the edoeming ork of Christ,

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It is in th light of this idea, that that Whieli, in stablishment of solemn ovenant, is offerest o God in the Wayo Sacrifieo by His orshippor is received bae by His grauious gis for thei refrestiment, that, Seem to ge thecleares conception of the natur of the Sacrifico of thedeath o Chris and of the natur of that aurifice hi chΗ ordaine forcit perp0tua memorial Christ, obedientunt death, ea even uni the death of the Cross, is to offer Himself and the offering aeeepte for ur Redemption,

in us of th life hielicis in Him for the preservation of

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bod an soli uiato the life evertasting. And therofore, at the las Supper in te of the consummation of this osset in and in present fulsit mentis it and of iis applie lion He devotes Him suis voluntarii layin down the liso Whieli ther Wis no an ad alien fronimi ui exhibitingi a myster His Bod broken an diis Blood hest anil, in the eontinuanee finis riesti funetion, givos adli tothose ho ere asso fiat0d With Him in that sublini aeto morshi that hiuli ad 00n offored that it might ob them consumed. An this hiel, me ad done Hocommandei them in ali iis true Significane to do foro memorial of Him. In fuit realigation of this foderat idea, the genera charaeteristic of Sacrifico, the Churuli has ver perpetuated the momoria thus institut0d offering in the ordalnei in morialmyster of Brea and in the Bod and Blood of Christis Sacrific0, and then ivin hac for the manducation of the faith fui in the sana myster that hieli has been previ-

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singula graue and providenee o God the Americanis dori vel by tradition rom hos venerable ouroes through

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th voice of her clear testimony, in the daren O the Reformation to this primitive sage Stifl0d by the malevolent repression sit Continenta reformer playing, OnsuiOuSi Oruneon solously, into the and O Roman manipulator of

Catholic truth, is matter of rie mingled illi ust

resent ment.

That it hould have beeome possibi e to ii inhoritors of the rene Ned tradition of the ancient testimon in the Americanisse, apable of bellttling, and with carping ords disparaging that tradition to hiuli ho have ad the un-

Doubtlses God ali me rei fui and infallibi discerning thothoughis and intent of the heari, an audioes receive and respond to the effortis the Chureli in ut times and in aliplaee to do formis memoria that hiuli Christ commandod tot dono animis gis of the gradu of the Bod auditoodo Christ is effectuali administured by His Hol Spirit in

recognitioni that effori, illi Whateve imperfections made. Vere the eas other Wise, WhO Ouid ave considonee in any offering of orshis, O Neve faithfuit made, O hoWeverintsentionali bassed On the Divine command But thecherishing of this convictio in ali humility, should nothinue ou devout anil ainstat in efforto aseertain ab

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essentia paris, i propoSed to iis O as O nature, ut as fgraue; and thus a matter of aith, hiel though notis volv- able by reason, is et conformabie t reason. The Ore conformable there fore an matteri faith - exacti statodani no explained Way - is to eason, the more cogent is

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IN the consideratio of the Consecration of the Eucharist, the obvious stari in poliat for an writer is the Eucharistic Prayer of the Liturgy used in that par of tho Chureli Catholic o hich he wes allegianee Thus for a member of tho Orthodox aster Chureli, the Oint of departure would bo the Anaphorae of the Liturgies O S. Chrysostoni an S. Dasit for a member of the Roma Chureli, the Canon Missae and fori member of the Anglican Communion, the Prayer of Onsecration containe in the Communion me of the Book of Common rnyer. But, inasmueli as his Prayer Os Consecration is no uniformthroughout the Anglican Communion, it ecomes nece SSaryto mali a choice et ween the w different fornis in generalus at the present time. The distinctivet Englisti fortia, Chioli dat0 froni 1552, is to mea gre and jejuno to afforda satisfactor basis O inquiry It defeet anil lentishos, known ni too et to any of those ho have been com- pollet to se it, reniter i uri fit for uel a purposse. Souia satisfautor ind00d vas it held o bo that tho ovisors of 1789 ook ad vantage of the opportunit afforde them, an moulded the Prayer of Consecration into hat, may, no vntruthfully, at iis final Anglican forni. e may fairi holit, therefore, that the Prayer o Consecration in the Ameridan Communion me is to e regat dedis more completet an perfecti expressing tho minit of the Anglican Communion in his particular, and ma appropriatelyus it a the standar o comparison. In ordo that e ma hau the dotalis of this halago ciearly before ur miniis, et iis ut the Englisti Prayer of Consecration Dd the Prayer o Consecration a altereulandamen led by the Re viser of 1789 in parallel columns:

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Wherefore, O Lor an heavent Father, accordin to the institution ofthy dearly belovel Sonmur Saviour Iesus Christ, e thy humble ServantS, do celebrate an mali here efore thymivine Majesty, it these thy holygisis, hic me no Offer uni thee, the memoria thyrao hath commandedus to malim; avin in remembrance his blessed passion and preci0us death, his might resurrectic an glorious ascension rendering unt thee osthearly thanks for the innumerable benefit procure uni u by the fame.

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