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Being a Manual of Directions for the Right Celebration of the
Holy Communion, for the Saying of Matins and Evensong, and for
the Performance of Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church,
according to Ancient Uses of the Church of England. |
"This site is a freely available archive of
electronic texts about religion, mythology,
legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics." |
We present here
several dozen Books of Common Prayer, and related works, from all
over the Anglican Communion. |
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Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world.
Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the
Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New
Testament. It is now available for review online. |
Pilgrim's Progress (1678): Pilgrim's
Progress
is an allegory of a Christian's journey
(here represented by a character called 'Christian') from the
"City of Destruction" to the "Celestial City".
Along the way he visits such locations as the Slough of
Despond, Vanity Fair, the Doubting Castle,
and the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
Butler's Lives of the Saints (1894):
Lives of the Saints has hundreds of capsule
descriptions
of Catholic saints, organized by the saint's day of the year.
The 1894 Benziger Brothers edition, originally published in
1878, was heavily edited by John Gilmary Shea
(here uncredited. Source: MELVYL).
The 'Reflections' were not in the original Butler text, and were probably
added by Shea.
The 1884 Sarum Missal: The entirety
of the 600 page Sarum Missal of 1884 available online. A marvelous
treasure. |
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Jewel
(1522-1571), was Bishop of Salisbury. In this essential Anglican
historical text, first published in 1562, Jewel makes what the
Encyclopedia Britannica calls 'the first methodical statement of the
position of the Church of England against the Church of Rome'. |
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Curious collection of
conversations
about the supernatural by one of our tradition's greatest hymnographers
and church historians. |
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In this brief pamphlet
written in 1758 Wesley encourages his followers to remain in the Church
of England and
to continue attending its parish
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A gem. 'This Church
was, in fact, in a mess. She had tried so many ways of escape! She had
tried Geneva; she
had tried Rome; she had essayed a mixture of the two in varying
proportions, which was called Moderate... |
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The letters and papers contained in this Pamphlet are the
result of that portion of the Judgment of the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council in the case of 'Hebbert v. Purchas'
which deals with the position of the Priest during the Prayer
of Consecration, and of subsequent occurrences referrible to
that Judgment.
They are now collected and reprinted, not in any spirit of
party warfare, but in the earnest hope, and with the hearty prayer,
that they may, if candidly studied, conduce to the glory of Almighty
God, and the peace and prosperity of His Church.
John Wesley
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Project Canterbury is a free online archive of out-of-print
Anglican texts and related modern documents.
Many will
be familiar with the fact that the Roman Catholic Church rejected the
validity of Anglican Holy Orders in 1896. The formal response, in Latin
('Saepius
Officio'), of the bishops of the Anglican Communion has been
difficult to find in a complete translation until
now.
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