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Daily Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer

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In the Free Church of England, the Book of Common Prayer (revised 1876) remains the standard of worship and doctrine, in practice as well as in theory. The language of the Prayer Book is beautiful and dignified; but not only that, it accurately teaches the  doctrines of the Church of England as established at  the time of the Reformation, doctrines for which Thomas Cranmer and others went to the stake.

PLEASE NOTE : The above link is to the 1662 Book of Common Paryer and not the 1876 revision. How is the Free Church of England Prayer Book different from the standard 1662 Prayer Book ? It removed from the 1662 book all ambiguous words and phrases that could be (and have been) taken by Ritualists to support what were perceived as sacerdotal teachings and practices not in accordance with Holy Scripture. For example, the 1662 book uses the term 'Priest' for one of the three kinds of Ministers. 'Priest' comes from the Greek word presbuteros, or 'elder', via the Anglo-Saxon word for elder, preost. Unfortunately, it also translates hieros, a  Greek word for a religious official who offers a propitiatory sacrifice. No Christian Minister can be a 'Priest' in this sense, because Christ offered the only propitiatory sacrifice of Himself, once and for all on the Cross. Jesus Christ is the Christian's only Priest. The FCE Prayer Book, then, replaces the word 'Priest' with the less controversial and more historic term, 'Presbyter'.  

 

 

Daily Prayer is provided by the official Church of England Website, copyright the The Archpishops' Council of the Church of England 2002 -2004. 

 

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