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This edition of the Book of Common Prayer was instituted with the Act of Uniformity 1662, only two years after the restoration of the monarchy. It made the use of the Book of Common Prayer compulsory, and led to the protest and expulsion of almost two-thousand clergymen from the Church of England who refused to recognize it. It included the readings for the Psalter for the very first time.

We do not presume to come to this thy Table (O mercifull Lord) trusting in our own righteousnes, but in thy manifold, and great mercyes. We are not worthy so much as to gather vp the Crumb. vnder thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is alwayes to have mercy: grant vs therefore gratious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear son Iesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinfull bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most pretious blood, and that
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