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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    painted upon any of the walls of your churches [7], and that from henceforth there be no more such.” From this extract several important facts may be gathered. First, that the mean and common deal tables which so recently disfigured our churches, and tended to make our national communion appear like a mere Protestant sect, were set up by one of the chief Anglican Reformers ; and moreover, that the present Presbyterian practice as regards so-called ‘‘ communion ” is identical with that which Hooper so strongly recommended. Secondly, that the presence of non-communicants was the rule in 1561, as recommended by Bishop Hooper.^ Thirdly, that the practice of saying the prayers Lowards the people originated apparently with, or at least was specially recommended by, the same Reformer. Fourthly, that chancel-screens were to be utterly abolished and swept away, for the reasons already set forth in the quotation. Fifthly, that private pews were to be care- fully retained. Sixthly, that figures in stained glass were to be discountenanced; and seventhly, that fresco and other wall-paintings were to be utterly defaced and destroyed. Thus we learn from an authentic official document what a thorough destruction vms effected by a personage who bore the office and character of a chief minister of religion. * In King James’s Prayer-book (London : Robert Barker, A.D. 1620), the exhortation to the Communicants .in the service for Holy Communion ran as follows :—“ Drawe neere and take this Hollie Sacra- ment to your comfort, make your humble confession to Almighty God, before this Congregation gathered together in His Holy Namef thereby proving the legality of the presence of the whole congregation at the Christian Sacrifice.