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The ‘Very Pure Word of God’: The Book of Common Prayer as a Model of Biblical Liturgy is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this overview of the Book of Common Prayer, Peter Adam brings us back again and again to its emphasis on the ‘very pure Word of God,’ which set the gold standard and hallmark of all liturgy. This text is a great introduction to the richness of the Book of Common Prayer, its purpose and benefits, and provides an excellent foundation for the rest of the volumes in this collection.

The Book of Common Prayer so often produce Evensong and omit the gospel beginning to the service of Evening Prayer, including the confession of sin and the absolution. This is a sad fall from the Reformed theology of the BCP. Participation in these services every day or every week provides a constant reminder of the need to turn to God the Saviour through Christ for the forgiveness of sins, to hear and obey the Scriptures, to believe in God the Trinity, and to pray to him for his mercy. Being trained
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