Book of Common Prayer

by Church of England

About This Book

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service, and Prayer , and of the Adminiftration of Sacriments, Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, which was fet forth on one book, entitled, The Book of Common Prayer, and Adminiftration of Sacriments, and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England, Authorized by Act of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of our faid late Sovereign Lord King, Edward the fixth, Institued, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Adminiftration of the Sacriments; The which was repealed, and taken away by Act of Parliment, in the firft year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mary, to the great decay of the due honour of God, and difcomfort to the profeffors of the truth of Chrifts Religion: Be it therefore Enacted, by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That the faid Statute of Repeal, and every thing therein contained, only concerning the faid Book, and the Service, Adminiftration of Sacriments, Rites and Ceremonies contained or appointed in or by the faid Book, fhall be void and of one effect, from and after the Feaft of Saint John Baptift next coming: And, That the faid Book, with the order of Service, and of the Adminiftration of Sacriment, Rites and Cermonies, with the alterations and additions therein added and appointed by this Statute, fhall ftand and be, from and after the faid Feaft of the Nativity of Saint John Baptift, in full force and effect, according to the tenor and effect of this Statute; Any thing in the forefaid Statute of Repeal to thecontrary notwithstanding.