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Bisho Soabur had thus ac complished the destrem his hoari and ad nillud ali the losor the williniban is ostho Coneor late he had signe Itho da nitor his conseorationto the Episcopate. In the Liturg of the insant Churelios Amorioch had sudeseudod in planting an Apostoli and Catholi Prayer os Consecration dissering in ut a single phras froni that o his own Communion Ostie and of the Mothor Chureli os collan l. his ligh ohango id notass00 tho rationale of the Prayor it a but the substitu

the reception of the element thus consecrat0d should bo

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232 THE CONSECRATION O THE EUCHARISTequaled illi the reception os the Bod and Blood os

Christ. It would have been an eaSy matter, meretnto havetakon the oriri suggested by the Marylan and the Pennsylvania Conventions os 1786. i. e. to infert a phraseos iussin into the wea Englisti Invocation an toleave the est unlouehed includin the Englisti rubricior a Secon conSocration. his attest ould have been

at ali in that mos unsatisfaetor o Eucharisti Prayers, yet a removed rom the glor os the Scottisti forni, and froni the nil of tho Spirit in tho undividei Church. Th Gonora Conventioni 1789 ad an alteration andamen linent Vis Supreme importando, and in the directiono the restoration of the impatred unit o Christ ' HolyCatholio Chureli, by adopting the Scottish; in preferenee

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THE RESTORATION O THE EPIKLESIS 233 to tho Englisti ori os ueharisti consecration and then Saseguar ted his change by adopting long ith tthe Scottish rubri sor a Sedon consecration with thestigii verba disserene required by the variation O the concludin elaus os Phe Invocation), thu mal in RSSurando doubi sure that the eottisti herilago in ur Prayero Consecration e impossibi Os alienation. Moreo vertha the passin os a undred ears ad not immodiho Chureli' apprediation of this herilage is seon in therubri inserte i in 1Ν92 dire tingis an irroducibie minimum in consecratin the Sacrament for the Communion os the Sicli, the samo forni V as that reserit,ed in the rubricior the conSecration os more element is hos previolasty consecrated do no Sustice. The Stight hange ad in The Infocation in 1789 as sentiret Satisfactor to any

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lias, I bellove se inulis lut the prayer o Conseerationii ho Communion me is deficient, even in the opiniono her ubi est vindicatores. I hali mention ut ne d0ficione in her Consecration prayer Vig. that it Sino put

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236 TH CONSECRATION O THE EUCHARISTand wil provent an surther Division belween us and the

tion the foregoing propose addition in the Consecration

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Convention. V

The Pennsylvania Convention hicli motin tho 22 os Ma that fame ear 1786 adopted the Same amen linent

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Convention ill reniter our Service more compleat.

It was his actionis the Pennsylvania Convention to hieli Bishop 0abur appetitsed in his letter quoto above, and whieli operiod the way for the stili otior amen linent proposed by him and adoptod in the Genera Conventionos 17S9. 0 are thus absolutet Sure os the aison metre of the mos notoworth of the alterations andumen linonis V made to th Englisti Book of CommonPrayer Tho action effect in thi improvenient Was alienti intelligoni mon, illi thoi eyos id operi, illi ho deliberato intention os conforrning the vorshi os the Chureli in Amerida to the primitive standar in the consecration of tho ueharist that is o say, in ordo toobviat tho mistaken notion o consecration by the mero redita os Christ 's ordes o Declaration and Institution, and instoad to impetrato in Phe Invocation o tho Divinoblossing pon the elementes bolore id ling the communi cant receive them a the Bod and Eloo o Christ. In Bishop 0abury' sermon tho Hol Eucharist, ' we have no oni plain evidonee o hi own acceptanee fili Seottish, Nonjuring tradition, ut also the theologicalba et ground of the Prayer o Conseo ration laesed in the Amori ean Eook of Common Prayerin tho 14thii October, 1789 His ord inre surely orth iur attention not

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only usu hos o u muster in theology but ut Sorus the ulter uno os ne to hom undo God the mori eun Chii relio vos orarentis ob os gratitude. ne quotation inust

M BLOOD. The elementes heing thus ad authoritati verePreSentutiones, o Symboles os Christ ' crudi fiod od audblood, are in a prope capae it tot offerodrio God a thogreat nil acceptable aerifice of the christian hureli. Aceor lingly the oblation, hi elicis tho highest, mos Solemn and prope ac o Christian Orship is then immo diatet made. Continuin his prayer, the ries inter-

osse tua to ali spiritual purposes. . . . The EuchariSthein a it nam imporis a Sacrifice of thankSgiving the brea and wine, aiter the have been offere or i Ven

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240 THE CONSECRATION O THE EUCHARISTto God, and tesse an sanetine by his Hol Spirit,are roturned by the hand of his minister tot eaten by tho

expecte to our ut his Prayer over his mysteriousiood os ur ouis. Suel a Prayer is the mos ancientani essentia par of the whol Communion Ostiee. There are Some, ho bellove that the par of the proserit Form II ho, in the a me night, etc., as Sed by the Apostlos and it is ertain no Liturg in the worid has altor0d that particular. There a insertod in tho primitive FormS a particular