Chapter VI: Praise II

The Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
A. The Study of the Bible a help to worship:
The Old Testament--1. Its agreement with the New . . . 48
2. Its teachings . . . . . . . . . --
3. Its 3 parts--(_a_) The Law,
(_b_) The Psalms, (_c_) The
Prophets . . . . . . . . . . . --
The New Testament--4. Its 3 parts--(_a_) The History,
(_b_) The Epistles, (_c_) The
Revelation . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Apocrypha-- 5. Its place in the Prayer Book . . 51
B. Lessons and Lectionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --
Jewish Lectionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Early Christian Lectionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Our own Lectionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
_Appendix B. Justin Martyr's description of Holy_
_Baptism and Holy Communion_ . . . . . . . . 58

CHAPTER VII. PRAISE III.

Hymns in the Daily Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Day Hour Hymns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --
The Canticles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
_Map of the Lessons and their Canticles_ . . . . . . . . . 64

CHAPTER VIII. PRAISE IV.

Te Deum Laudamus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Latin original. Its three stanzas . . . . . . . . . . 66
Notes on the words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Note on the Doxology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

CHAPTER IX. PRAISE V.

The Canticles, continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Magnificat, Benedicite, Cantate Domino . . . . . . . . . . 77
Canticles which follow the Second Lesson: . . . . . . . . 82
Benedictus, Nunc dimittis, Jubilate Deo, Deus misereatur . 83

CHAPTER X. PRAISE VI.

The Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
The Apostles' Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Uses of Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
History of the Apostles' Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Creeds in the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Primitive Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Close of the Praise Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

CHAPTER XI.

Reason, History, and Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
I. About God, _a._ What Reason has to say . . . . . . . . 101
_b._ What the Bible Revelation has to say . 104
II. About Jesus Christ, _a._ What the outside world said . 106
_b._ What the Bible says . . . . . 107
III. About the Holy Ghost. What the Bible says . . . . . . 111

CHAPTER XII.

Excursus on The 'Athanasian' Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

CHAPTER XIII.

The Service of Prayer. I. Preces and Collects . . . . . . 127
Worship-Forms in the Prayer Service . . . . . . . . . . . 128
The Prayer Service Rubrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
A. Preces, 132; B. Collects, 134; C. The other Prayers . . 142

CHAPTER XIV.

The Service of Prayer. II. Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . 146
_a._ Simple Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Example. Advent setting of Venite . . . . . . . . . . --
_b._ Compound Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Example. The Easter Anthems in their original form . . --
Praise and Prayer Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Hymns as Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

CHAPTER XV.

The Service of Prayer. III. The Litany . . . . . . . . . 153
Ancient Litanies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Rogation Litanies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Structure of the Litany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
i. Our cry to Christ, 159. ii. Our cry to the Father, 170.
iii. Appeal for help, 171. iv. Pressing anxieties of
the moment, 172. v. Final Commendation of our
prayers to Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

_Appendix C. Lessons in the Day Hours_ . . . . . . . . . . 173
_Appendix D. Pliny's Letter to Trajan_ . . . . . . . . . . 174
_Appendix E. The addition of Filioque_ . . . . . . . . . 176
_Appendix F. Greek origin of Litanies_ . . . . . . . . . . 177
_Tables of Dates_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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