 | Charles Henry Robinson - 1908 - 132 sidor
...thank God than for the Book of Common Prayer. John Wesley once wrote concerning it : ' I believe that there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient...more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety than the Prayer Book of the Church of England.'1 The word 'common,' which forms part of its title, suggests... | |
 | 1903 - 1038 sidor
...particular occasions." When recommending a prayer book for America in 1784, in his old age, he writes: "I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either...ancient or modern language, which breathes more of solid, scriptural, rational piety than the Common Prayer of the Church of England." These forms have... | |
 | George Parkin Atwater - 1917 - 204 sidor
...ascend from the Altars of the Episcopal Church.' " "Here is what John Wesley said, 'I believe that there is no liturgy in the world either in ancient or modern language which breathes more of solid spiritual, rational piety than the Book of Common Prayer.' " " 'Dr. Adam Clark, the most learned... | |
 | David Baines-Griffiths - 1919 - 168 sidor
...pride, not with critic condescension, that toward the end of his days the churchman wrote : I bejieve there is no Liturgy in the world, either in ancient...piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. As for proof of his professions, there is his life-long custom of using the prayers in the informal... | |
 | 1882 - 792 sidor
...children and weaker persons." In his Preface to the " Sunday Service of the Methodists," Wesley says: " I believe there is no Liturgy in the world, either...piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language... | |
 | Richard Green - 1906 - 312 sidor
...London : 1790. Wesley's estimate of the English Liturgy is given in a single sentence in the preface : "I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either...more of a solid, Scriptural, rational piety than the Common-Prayer of the Church of England." Although he says " little alteration " is made in this edition... | |
 | John Kendall Nelson - 2001 - 502 sidor
...officiating elsewhere in the parish) began the reading of the appointed service. John Wesley believed that "there is no Liturgy in the world, either in ancient...piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And although the main of it was compiled more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it... | |
 | Karen B. Westerfield Tucker - 2001 - 368 sidor
...The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America. With Other Occasional Services that there was "no LITURGY in the World, either in ancient or modern...rational Piety, than the COMMON PRAYER of the CHURCH of ENGLAND."8 This, however, did not mean Wesley regarded the Prayer Book as unalterable. During his American... | |
 | Kenneth Cracknell, Susan J. White - 2005 - 302 sidor
...America should adopt the ritual he proposed. Wesley declares in the preface to the SS that he knows of no LITURGY in the world, either in ancient or modern...Piety, than the COMMON PRAYER of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language... | |
 | S. T. Kimbrough - 2007 - 312 sidor
...Instructing the Americans of its dependence on the BCP, Wesley asserted in the preface to the Sunday Service: I believe there is no LITURGY in the World, either...Piety, than the COMMON PRAYER of the CHURCH of ENGLAND. Wesley conceded that he had shortened the Supper, omitted a few sentences from Baptism and Burial and... | |
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I believe there is no Liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. 
