the Communion Office was revised, the differences on the usages having long since ceased. The work was undertaken by the Bishops, and brought into its present state. From this period, it has been the practice to use the English Liturgy, with the exception of the Communion Office. As the Scottish Episcopalians generally preferred the Office of King Edward's First Book, or that of the Book of 1637, they framed their service after the model contained in these two Books, rather than after that which is adopted by the Church of England. In all other respects the uniformity between the two Churches is complete. Some persons have charged the Scottish Office with Popery: but better judges than any of those, who have, within the last few years, deserted the Communion of the Church of Scotland, have pronounced it a truly sound and primitive Form. Bishop Horsley in 1806, a man whom no one can charge with Popery, writes thus respecting the Scottish Office: "with respect to the comparative merits of the two offices for England and Scotland, I have no scruple in declaring to you, that I think the Scotch Office more conformable to the primitive models, and in my private judgment more edifying than that which we now use: insomuch, that were I at liberty to follow my own private judgment, I would myself use the Scotch Office in preference. The alterations which were made in the communion service, as it stood in the first Book of Edward VI. to humour the Calvinists, were, in my opinion, much for the worse: nevertheless, I think our present office is very good."[1] This testimony is more than sufficient to counterba-
- ↑ Skinner's Office for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, according to the Use of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. 8vo. Aberdeen. 1807, p. 157.
