A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms / compiled and arranged by the Rev. Frederick George Lee.

  • Frederick George Lee
Date:
1877
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Credit: A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms / compiled and arranged by the Rev. Frederick George Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ministers and communicants may be seen, heard, and understood of all the people there being present [2]; and that ye do take down and abolish all the altars or tables (?). Further, that the minister, in the use of the communion and prayers thereof, turn his face towards the people [3]. Item, that you .... take down all the chapels, closets, partitions, and separations within your churches whereat any Mass has been said, or any idol, image, or relic used to be honoured, and to make the church a house appointed to serve God in without all closures, unparting (?), and separations between the minister and the people [4], to avoid all Mosaical and Jewish im- perfection, and such typical separation as showed * Christ yet to come, and not already now come and past as touching the imperfection of the law. Provided notwithstanding, that in case any honest man, of what state soever he be, that hath a seat within the church for his quietness for himself and his to hear the Common Prayer, that it stand, and no man meddle with it [5]. Item, that when any glass windows within any of the churches shall from henceforth be repaired or new made, that you do not permit to be painted or purtured^ therein the image or picture of any saint; but if they will have anything painted, that it be either branches, flowers, or posiesf taken from Holy Scripture [6], and that ye cause to be defaced all such images as yet do remain Portrayed. t Posies, i.e. mottoes, or legends.