The ‘Very Pure Word of God’: The Book of Common Prayer as a Model of Biblical Liturgy (Biblia.com)

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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.

and practice of the Lord’s Supper;20 and Archbishop Ussher of Armagh, who together with Richard Baxter promoted a Reformed model of Primitive Episcopacy.21 Nigel Atkinson has shown that Richard Hooker, a great architect of Anglicanism, was clearly in the Reformed tradition, and was closer to Calvin in theology than some of his Puritan critics.22 Even in the days of the Commonwealth, 300 Episcopal Puritans (called ‘Evangelicals’ by a contemporary writer) used to meet regularly in Oxford for Anglican

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