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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m sent that God has redeoni ei the ortu through Christ sit Hath, and that Christ has command0d His Chureli to

o Consecration is equivalent to the si s Englisti post-communion prayer the petition sor orthy reception ein somewhat amplisipd in Vie of the change positionis the prayer. his is no include in the forna consecration, however, and therefore calis for nodetaile examination.

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that; it is the exprossionis tho minimo undividei Christen- dona, and of the in and praetice of ut the Orion talChurelius, schismatical as ei as Orthodox down to the

present time.

Unti a comparati vel recent period moroover, it ad always been understood that the Reviser of 1789 had madotheso alterations and amendments V in the Prayeri Consecration illi deliberat intentato bring it into addord with thewhol o Easter Christendona, and with th primitivo anilun dividod Chureli, in iis rationale fraueharistio oonseor tion. Within thecli feti me of the present,riter lici e ver theattempta a been made to en grast the modern Roman ceremonia of thema non Missae pon the Ameriean rayer fConsecration by insistin that tho sepsetition his is My Ody,' etc., is the consecration, and that he Invocationis meret a prayer O the Orth reception o elements ali ead consecrateil NO only so, ut even to allego that

the light change frona the Scottisti in the phraseologyo The Invocation, as adoptet in 1789, as made in orderio rende it mean ingless, .e. O far a iis bella a r erso the consecration O the elements was constern ed. The argum senis illi hieli his attemptans pen supporte beara trili in resemblane to those hereb Roman contrO- versialisis have eniteavoured O subvert the lain mea ning of the piklpsis in the asteria rites, and to introduce discord, is possibio, in to tho Easterii Chureli. et sowidely has the parallel perversion eoo me current in the American Church, that it has seeme advisablerio repare

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xxviii AUTUOR'S PREFACEa and book on the question o Eucharisti consecration, with th obj0otis assordiu to thos perplexest a means fguidando ut of the labyrinth O sophisti: an evasion in

v hiel the promulgator of the modern Roman theoryo Eustharistic conseeration Ouid a in Leop them immured, and to State result in So OSitive ani non-eontroversiala fashion a to servo the interest O truth, uni ty, and conuord V in promotin iob ait to the lain monti in and grana mattea con Struction of the DraFer o Conseeration as

Conseuration in the Angliean Communion, a the poliat romwhiel to vi0K the question unde Consideration. e have 1 to examine the phraseolog and construeti in f the Amorioan Prayer o Conseoration, in orde to determine

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comparison illi the lain facts of histor and of Catholio liturgidat tradition. Simplieit anu tho OSitivo expositiono truth have boon tho dominant inis, and in Orde tofastilitat the iis of this haud book by person not aequainted villi Latin and Gr00k, tho Origina quotations have been plausest in tho AppendiX. In the cours of the prseparatior of this reati se thoauthor has besen indebised O many frientis for helpiu sug

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lotter of tho Rev. illium mitti totisho Soabur quoted in Chapter . pages 224-226. A the fame time, omne is in an ava responsibi for th method an dotalis of this handbook save th author himself. I should bo ad sed that Chapter I. II. III., and V. Were aecepted by the auult of th Philadelphia DivinitySehoollas a thesis preliminar to examination for the degree of Doctori Divinit in coui se in the Epiphan Term of1905. Aster ome revision, and with the addition ofChapte IV. to completo the subjeci, the are here et orthin the hos that in spite of thei obviolas limitations and

many horteona ingS, the ma notini Serve to deepen the appreciation of that mos proelous herilage of the AmericanChureli, hor Prayer o Consecration of the Hol Eucharist, anxio enuoui age a loya adhorene to iis lain panin and rationale, pon the partis thos ivli are privileged O seit; ut may also serve to remini those ho ar hel in bonilago to tho far inferior Englisti Prayer o Consecration, of the signifieane an value of the hie alteration audamendmunt of the Book of Common Prayer ad by the Re vi Sors of 1789, as sex pressin mille sobe and rip0ned thought of the Anglican Reformation, a cari ying ut int praetide iis appen to Catholi antiquity, and thus constitutin anim portant stemtowarn the reianion o Christendom, a round the aeramentis Christ' love, as observe froin os id in His Chur h.

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