Canon Richard Dixon's "History of the Church of England, Vol. 3," 19ff.
1549 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. As to the daily Prayers, two services, not the daily hours of seven. They showed the “communicative spirit” of the Reformation (whatever that means). The Order of Morning Prayers chiefly followed Matins and Prime of the old Hours of the Breviary: Evensong chiefly followed Compline (19). The Collects: “depressed tone of many parts of the Book” Dixon claims as a Methodist (22). The Order of Holy Communion (24). The former year's Communion Office embodied in it. The new Communion (or Mass) different from the old Missal. The differences exhibited (26). The Preparation was omitted. The Ordinary of the Mass was “refrigerated” (Dixon’s phrase by the sermon (27). The Canon of the Mass considerably altered (28). Significance of the alterations (30). The doctrine of the Presence was maintained, he suggests, but differently exhibited (32). This scribe vigorously denies that Dr. Cranmer “intended” Ubiquitarianism. Dixon mentions nothing of this. The Canon of the Mass no longer to be said secretly. The Baptismal Office. Confirmation treated as an independent rite (34). Place of the Catechist (35). The other Offices: Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, Burial (36). The publication of the BCP which occasioned abolishing some remaining ceremonies (37). A Visitation of the kingdom on the occasion. In that Visitation the former Injunctions of Edward were altered much: and some ceremonies that the Book said nothing of were expressly abolished in the Articles used therein. The heresy laws remain on the books: the heretics (39).
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