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Few of those who signed the Annexed Book can have imagined that the rite was to remain in force for three hundred years. Even before it had become law, Convocation was looking farther afield. In March 1662 Cosin was asked to prepare a form for consecrating churches, which he duly presented in June; but it contained, according to Sheldon, ‘something amiss’, and was never approved.4 Being closely based on Andrewes’s form, it was probably thought too definitely Laudian in tone. In 1712 Convocation, faced with the prospect of fifty new churches being built in London, authorized a greatly simplified form, and revised it in 1714.5 When James II came to the throne, a service was needed for the anniversary of his accession, and the form used in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I and Charles I was revived. The service for Charles II’s restoration still continued in use, but now adapted to commemorate the restoration of the royal family. A cento psalm was substituted for Venite, new proper psalms and second lessons were appointed, and several collects were added. The service for 30 January was similarly treated, with the further addition of the first two parts of the Homily against Rebellion. William Ill’s landing in England took place on 4 November; he therefore had the ‘Gunpowder Treason’ service revised to celebrate this new event as well, and did not have a separate Accession service.
And now, what remains but that we rejoice and joy together in our exceeding great happiness, and that in the best of things, our religious worship, an happiness far superior to what other churches and sects enjoy, or rather, fancy they enjoy.
Thomas Bisse, The Beauty of Holiness in the Book of Common Prayer, 17161
I myself so far allow the force of several of those objections [at the Savoy Conference] that I should not dare to declare my assent and consent to that book in the terms prescribed.
John Wesley to Samuel Walker, 20 November 17552
As to the controverted points (for the sake of which only we thought it necessary to alter the Communion Office), we have followed the first Liturgy of King Edward VI, excepting where we found it not so agreeable as we could wish to the ancient liturgies.
Thomas Brett, A Collection of the Principal Liturgies, 17203
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Cuming, G.J. (1982). Branching off the Via Media. In: A History of Anglican Liturgy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05786-3_8
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