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Excerpt from Turgies and Offices of the Church: For the Use of English Readers, in Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer N attempt is made in the following pages to simplify the study of the original sources of the Church Services, by setting forth in an English translation the earliest forms of Christian worship, both of the Eastern and Western Church, by pointing out how these were developed in mediaeval Service Books, and by tracing the return to primitive models in the revisions of the sixteenth century. Notwithstanding that many books have been written, both in former and modern times, upon the Rites of the Church, and the history and contents of the Book of Common Prayer, English students have found a difficulty in gaining such a knowledge of the ancient Liturgies and Offices as would enable them to compare the English Services with those from which they were derived. For an acquaintance with the original forms of separate prayers gives no true idea of the Service to which they belonged. The Service itself must be studied as a whole before its character can be understood. And here has been the difficulty. For to do this, it has been necessary to investigate many books, not only difficult of access, but extremely puzzling to anyone not accustomed to use them; and the result has been that Liturgy, Canon, Sacramentary, Missal, and Breviary have been names, rather than realities, to all but the few who have taken up Liturgies as their special study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.