are collected by Neale, in his English edition of the Primitive Liturgies, pp. 175-215, from 67 ancient liturgies in alphabetical order. Freeman says, rather VOL. II. — 33 514 THIRD PEKIOD. A.D. 311-590. To add an example : The prayer of consecration and obla- tion in one of the oldest and most important of the liturgies, that of St. James, runs thus : After the Words of Institution the priest proceeds : '■'■Priest: We sinners, remembering His life-giving passion, His saving cross, His death, and His resurrection from tlie dead on tlie third day, His ascension to heaven, and His sitting at the right hand of Thee His God and Father, and His glorious and terrible second appearing, when He shall come in glory to judge the quick and the dead, and to render to every man according to his works, — offer to Thee, O Lord, this awful and unbloody sacrifice ; ' beseeching Thee that Thou wouldst deal with us not after our sins nor reward us according to our iniquities, but according to Thy good' ness and unspeakable love to men wouldst blot out the handwriting which is against us Thy suppliants, and wouldst vouchsafe to us Thy heavenly and eternal gifts, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man what Thou, 0 God, hast prepared for them that love Thee. And reject not Thy people, O loving Lord, for my sake and on account of my sins. He repeats thrice : For Thy people and Thy Church prayeth to Thee. People : Have mercy npon 'Us, 0 Lord God., almighty Father ! Priest: Have mercy upon us, almighty God! Have mercy upon us, O God, our Eedeemer ! Have mercy upon us, O God, according to Thy great mercy, and send upon us, and upon these gifts here present. Thy most holy Spirit, Lord, Giver of life, who with Thee the God and Father, and with Thine only begotten Son, sitteth and reigneth upon one throne, and is of the same essence and co-eternal,''' who spoke in the law and in the prophets, and in Thy new covenant, who descended in the form of a dove upon our Lord Jesus Christ in the river Jordan, and rested upon Him, who came down upon Thy holy apostles in the form of tongues of fire in the upper too strongly, 1. c. p. 36-4 : " No two churches in the world have even the same Words of Institution." ' npoatpeponfV arot, AtViruro, ttj^ (po^epav ravTTjv Kal waifxaKTOv ^vcriav. The term (po^epd denotes holy awe, and is previously applied also to the second coming of Christ: T^s Sevrepas eV5d|oi; Kol (po^epas auTov irapovaias, se. fxifivrjixivoi.. The Liturgy of St. Chrysostom has instead: npoa(pepofXiv croi rrjv AoyiKiiv ravTijv koI avaifJLaKTov \aTpfiav (doubtless with reference to the Ao7i»c^ Aurpei'a in Rom. xii. 1). ^ ^ ' 'E|o7ro<rTei\oy f<f>' ijixas Kal eirl ra TrpoK€lfj.€va Swpa ravra rb Ylvevixd aov to iravdyioy, [eTra