be used in the Church and at the Altar. There are also Offices for daily Private Communion, and for the Commemoration of the Dead. The Office for Private Communion contains a Form for a sick person to administer the sacrament to himself, the elements being reserved from the public administration.[1]
By the adoption of this book of Offices, Deacon's party, even apart from their irregular consecrations, was altogether at variance with the other, in the mode of celebrating Divine Service. But Deacon was not satisfied even with this new collection: for in the year 1746, he published, though without his name, another small volume, consisting of several special Forms, in which he departed still further from the other Nonjurors.[2]
The Form for admitting converts is much stronger in its expressions and requirements, than that which had been drawn up by Kettlewell, and which had been always used by the other party. The Chrism and the sign of the cross were enjoined in such cases. The Litany was to be used on certain specified occasions.
This account of the Offices adopted by the Separatists is sufficient to mark the striking differences between
- ↑ It may be remarked that the Chrism, the Milk and Honey, the Balsam, the Kiss of Peace, with the other ceremonies in the Collection of Devotions, are all explained in the Comprehensive View.
- ↑ The Form of admitting a Convert into the Communion of the Church. London, Printed in the year 1746. The volume contains also A Litany for the Use of those who mourn for the Iniquities of the Present Times. Prayers to be used upon the Death of Members of the Church: and, An Office for the Use of those who by unavoidable necessity are deprived of the advantage of joining in offering the Sacrifice, and of receiving the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist!
