The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

Literature.

THE LITERGT OP THE CHURCH OF ESAION, 116 By
rn,Ki.r.,4 WALKER. London Hayes.—(Continued
from last week.)—lt was one of the especial com-
niandm given through doses to the children of
brae!, when about to enter the promised land,
that they should not " enquire how those nation,
served their Gods ;" lest it should be • snare unto
them. Whatever, therefore, led them to make
requiries upon those matters WM an evil ; it was in
direct opposition to God's word; anmi yet we have reason
to think that they did imitate those wretched idolaters,
and marvel"! lica.rdingly. Three hundred year. ago
England was delivered in a most nunrvellota manner
from the Church of Rome. That Church, like the
nat.ers of Canaan, was driven out, with all its
idolatrous ceremonies;_ and the pure Gospel was made
Icumin in its stead. We take it as a very bail sign
when men are dissatisfied with the simple Liturgy and
Ritual which have been used for three hundred years,
and are enquiring how that apostate Church, before it
was turned out. worshipped God. It is a simple
historical fiction to say that it was the Jame Church as
that which is now established in this land. It was the
Church of Rome; there was no Church of England at
all; the Reformation was the real origin of the Church
of Englnnil as it now is, and to be attempting to bring
hack her services to an uniformity with that foreign
Church of Rome, is an act of treachery and unfaith-
fulness. The republication and translation of thimancknt
rite of Sarum in such an act, and there are throughout
the editorial part of the work evident intimations of
thin intention of unreforming our own Liturgy.
In continuing our observations on this publication,
we will not make many more extract' from the Liturgy
itself, chiefly confining ourselves to the editorial part
of the work, se best exhibiting the purpose of those
concerned in the whole business. We must, however,
*tate that there are directions for masses for the
dead :

I'. fN, ' Be mindful also, 0 Lord, of the mule of Ttsy
servant. an' Th) haedseeldens N. and N, who are gone
before u. wlth the Agra of faith, and who amp the sleep of
peace : to time, 0 Lord, and to ail who eleep In Christ, we
way nee to grant a place of refreshment, light, mad peace.
Through the sone Cadet our Lord. Amen."
'Which our Church declares to be " blasphemou fables
and dangerous deceit.:" Invocation of the Virgin
Mary and the Saints, Adoration of the Material
Cross: as page 79:

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" Let us adore the sign of the Cries : by means of which we
receive the Ise cement of ealvation."
Pp. 120, 121. Then the two clergy enamoring eke Craw by the
rigid side 41 du liar, Ong dim weipAew.
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..11elmlil U.. wood of 1.1.. Cr. on villa hunt ll* Saviour
tbe W,.rld. Come le, no adore."

ne rAstr. bleeling and WON; ike form. riPly,

•• we venerate Thy Crow- , 0 Lord, and emir* and glorify
Thy Iloly IterturrecUon ; for behold by the Crow has cocoa Joy
to the whole world."

"Faithful Crow ! above all other, On and only noble flee!
None In foliage, none in blourom, none In fruit thy peers may
be : Moreton wood and inestert iron! lineeteet weight Is
bung on thee I!

The last extract being repeated by the choir as the
response in • kind of Litany. But with regard to thin
act of idolatry, we have the following remarkable
note:

P. 79. " &remade in Latin does not:convey the modern idea
01 adorstion,i.e., the supreme worship due to God alone, but la
ratberequlralent to let 114 venerate. Comp. With my bodly!
thee worship" in the Solemnisation of Matrimouy. .h
derivation Is ed. to, and or. he mouth, I astute by putting
my hand to my mouth: formerly done by Inferion In mluting
the grea'."

These Ritualists have made great use of • new style of
acliolarship, wherewith to astonish the minds of their
disciples. We have the Bishop of Salisbury bobly
asserting that • certain Greek word weans (which is
tantamount to saying that it must, or always does
mean it) in Alexandrine Greek, to sacrifice; as if that
was its only meaning; whereas he ought to have said
at the very most, it way wean it, or sometimes does
mean it. Again we have seen them interpreting the
word represent, as meaning to present over again,
which Is false in etymology and fact. But in the note
shove we have a still more remarkable bit of
etymology;which is u utterly Vevoid of :seta tr. derived
fi:Te:ivdednfirot
oil, and signifies a particular use of the mouth, and
adoration is derived from ad and oro, and does not take
its meaning from the ultimate root, but the immediate
one; anil always imam what is commonly understood
by it, namely, worship such as that which is offered in
prayer or praise to God. In the passage from the
Marriage Service, which is referred to in support of
thi. novel interpretation of adoration, we have • still
wore shameless bit of false scholarship. In the Latin
Prayer Book the words translated "with my body I
the worship," are carport Amoco: literally, I honour
with my body, which, according to this Ritualist, means
the same as adoration with the mouth. Any man can
ace how diacreditable !mann illustration is.
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But (in pages 87, (10) we have a comparative view of
the Sarum awl Modern English Rituals, drawn up in
opposite columns, and the points compared numbered,
.and evidently arranged with the purpose of chewing what
very little difference there is between them. Much of the
rne:lnvval munimeries of the one, which can't be found
In the other, is declared to be implied or permissible.
Let us give • couple of specimens :--
The serum Ordinary. The Modern English Ordinary.
1. Rubric no tO Ve.ilaalt.. I. Implied an Rubric on Orna-
ments of Church and
SI Ina den.
111. The first incensing. 15. Implied by the Ornaments
of the Church. mongol
•hich ace Thuribics.
And in the comparative view of the two calendars we
have it stated with regard to the two feasts of St.
Thomas of Canterbury (the notorious Thomas a Becket:,
In a note, page 9'2, •Thvve feasts were arbitrarily re-
moved from the calendar by Henry VIII., and never by
Church authority." So by merely restoring what the
Mitre* never rest:as:A, ...I wribeA 1.. eeplie4, ay per.
inissibtc or not absolutely forbidden, we shall have
Salisbury t'etheslral once more in its glory: the Bishop
with :nitre and crueler: it. priests in all the harlequin
colours, which so delight their heart.: and the feast of
St. Thomas of Canterbury, the arch-traitor priest,
celebrated in true medieval style, furnishing a fine
lesson in loyalty to the inhabitants of Wiltshire. But
Is there no Senpture in eli this Liturgy? There is in'
deed, and just treated in • way to make it contemptible.
In the service for Good Friday we have the following
Tract, with a most suggestive not.:—
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P. 103. Tract. Mita 111.-0 Lord, I have heard Thy speech,
and lam afraid : I conaidered thy • orks end trembled."
"In the mulct of two animal. shalt Thou he made known :
when the years draw nigh Thou rhalt be known; when the
thaw shall come Thou shalt be aMwn.
'• In the time when my soul atoll be troubled: in wBsth
tensember merry,"
“Ged ehali rime from Libanua, and the Holy One from the
shad) and denaely.wooded mountain."
"Ilk glory covered the heaven., and the earth wee full of
His praise."
• Thin Wan ancient reeding of flab. ill., 8, well known In
Christian art ca the authority fur representing our Blamed
Lord in the manger es receiving the homage of an ex:and an as..
Its moon Good Friday, howeser, in preference to the medic
annorum mit= leeks' of the Vulgate. maw to beta
allmion to our Lord's Crucifixion between the two thieve..'
And afterward. " the Passion," that ii the 18th and
part of the 19th chapter of B. John's gospel—the
whole passers of surpassing and painful interest to
every true Christian—setting forth especially the
humiliation of the Saviour, whom the Church adore. ;
and well calculated to chew the utter inconsistency of
gaudy ritualism in Hi* wrvice. Hut to guard against
so wholesome a lesson, the Church of Sarum, and lee
founder, S. Osmund, have taken care that this whole
shall be deprived of its solemnity, by being sung
L'asttrfollowing manner :
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P. 106. The Pamir, was sung every day in Holy Week in
addition to the Genial It was sung In thole loom—the deep,
the middle, and the exalted. The words or Nayinp of the Jews
or the diecipiee and others was rung In the exalted tone (ma
alto); those Child In the deep tone (wiz bans); the
Shirai (eon media) was employed In reciting the narrative of
the Evangelist. In the text the italle letters preexed to the
sentence* refer to them tones, 5. •larnifying that eon 'Radial, •
that lox slid, mad b that lox beam le to he employed."

If any one vriU try to perform a portion of it in this
manner, be may find it very amusing, but certainly not
very instructive.
Now this is the work, which an English clergyman
considers worth translating' Hula Bishop of our church
endorses. Nor do we find from beginning to end one
protest against the errors it contains: its profanity
idolatry:aol its wonhip of saints • of the V4in Mary ;
or even of the cross Been • ' except that absurd interpre-
tation of the word "Adoration." Not one word of
thankfulness that we, as a Church and people, have
been delivered from such abominable superstition.
It is the Diva/ Liturgy, and there is throughout an
evident regret for the loss cf it. Well, it makes us
aditionally thankful that we are not to have the
number of bishops increased. Before that is done, the
country ought to know what they are to be, Popish, or
Protestant: what I.iturgy they from their hearts went
to—the Bite of Sarum, or the English Prayer Book?
For ourselves we trust that this publication will have
the opposite effect to that inanilnl, and will increase
the mistrust, already stain& of the whole system of
Anglican retrogression.