The prayer book articles and homilies; some forgotten facts in their history which may decide their interpretation . , after the interlineatcd words break the bread,the important words before the people were insertedby continued interlineation. This was doubtless doneupon the urgent request of the Puritans, who made agreat point of the act of breaking the bread being seenby the people. The writing shews that this was adistinct addition and final concession ; for the words* before the people were not inserted at tJie same timeas break the bread, for, at the time that alterationwas made,
The prayer book articles and homilies; some forgotten facts in their history which may decide their interpretation . , after the interlineatcd words break the bread,the important words before the people were insertedby continued interlineation. This was doubtless doneupon the urgent request of the Puritans, who made agreat point of the act of breaking the bread being seenby the people. The writing shews that this was adistinct addition and final concession ; for the words* before the people were not inserted at tJie same timeas break the bread, for, at the time that alterationwas made, the word ** cup was inserted above theline. l>ut in the after addition of before the people the word before ran over the interlined wordcup, which had then to be written in the margininstead,-* as the subjoined facsimile (produced byphotography) shews— ^ This fact, which may be verified in the Photopraph, is concealedin Mr. Pari<ers History of the Revisions of the Prayer Book, p. ccxiii.,which also makes break the bread and before the people to formtwo separate half lines. 222 THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD. ^n^/ty^«tta^>l> /&CUMS^,m These facts, patent on the pa<^es of Cosins book,shew that before the people cannot mean, as somesuppose, pubhcly in the church, as opposed to privatelyin the vestry, because the ordering of the act in this Tlin BREAKING OF THK BREAD 223 part of the service rendered the latter is to say, the side Rubric, And here to breakthe bread, secures publicity for the rite; and itsequivalent appeared in Cosins original draft of theRubrics, Though it is impossible to shew by ordinary typethe erasure of the word Cup in the fifth line, thefollowing reproduction of the Cosin Rubric fromthe Durham Book may perhaps make these successivechanges clearer ; the old English lines representing theoriginal text, and the square brackets indicatingerasures subsequently made by a stroke of the pen ;while the Italic type shews the newer inserti
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