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An unpublished source of the Book of Common Prayer: Peter Martyr Vermigli's Adhortatio ad Coenam Domini Mysticam

  • Alan Beesley
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Liturgy, it has often been said, implies doctrine. Nowhere is this more patently clear than in the rubric before the second Exhortation ‘in case he [the Minister] shall see the people negligent to come to the Holy Communion’ in the Prayer Book of 1662. In view of the fact that ‘An Order for Holy Communion’ contained in the Report of the Liturgical Commission, April 1966, has departed from the valuable precedent of 1662, it may not be without contemporary value that we enquire into the origin, purpose and structure of this second Exhortation.

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page 83 note 1 Ed. H. A. Wilson (Henry Bradshaw Society, xxxiv), London 1908.

page 83 note 2 The English Rite, London 1915, ii. 664, 666, 668.

page 83 note 3 Liturgies and Occasional Forms of Prayers set forth in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Parker Society 1847, 186.

page 83 note 4 A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, London 1932, 483.

page 84 note 1 Liturgy and Worship, ed. Clarke, W. K. Lowther and Harris, C., London 1932, 327.

page 86 note 1 Keeling, W. (Liturgiae Britannicae, London 1842, 190–5) prints the minor modifications and verbal changes in the second exhortation in 1604 and 1662.

page 87 note 1 The Common Places of the most famous and renowned divine, Doctor Peter Martyr, translated and partly gathered by Anthonie Marten, London 1579, 1583. An exhortation to the Mysticall Supper is printed in Marten, op. cit., 137. Compare Gorham, G. C., Reformation Gleanings, London 1857, lxi, 223. Gorham's translation from the Latin text of 1583 is simple and direct and is unnoticed by later writers.

page 87 note 2 Strype, J., Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer, Oxford 1840, ii. 898.

page 87 note 3 Smyth, C. H., Cranmer and the Reformation under Edward VI, Cambridge 1926, 133.

page 87 note 4 C. H. Smyth, op. cit., 120.

page 87 note 5 Buceri Scripta Anglicana, Basle 1577.

page 88 note 1 John Cosin, ‘Notes and Collections on the Book of Common Prayer’, Works, 1855 (L.A.C.T.), v. 468.

page 88 note 2 Dugmore, C. W., The Mass and the English Reformers, 1958, 156–7. I am indebted to Dr. G. J. Cuming for this reference.

page 88 note 3 Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiae (1549). Loci Communes, ed. Massonius, , Heidelberg 1613, 850, para. 43. Cf. Calvin, Institutio iv. 17. 33, who quotes Peter Lombard in Sent. IV dist. 8. c. 4: ‘Res significata et contenta est propria caro Christi: significata et non contenta, mysticum corpus’. See also Simon Patrick (1625–1707), Mensa Mystica (1660).

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