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THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.
THE Preface.
Concerning the Service of the Church.
Concerning Ceremonies, &c.
The Kalendar.
The Order how the Psalter is to be read.
The Order how the rest of the holy Scripture is appointed to be
read.
Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts throughout the whole
Year.
A Table of Proper Lessons and Psalms.
The Order for
Morning Prayer.
The Order for
Evening Prayer.
The Creed of St. Athanasius.
The Litany.
Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions.
The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used throughout the
Year.
The Order of the Ministration of the holy Communion.
Order of Baptism, both Publick and Private.
The Order of Baptism for those of Riper Years.
The Catechism, with the Order for the Confirmation of Children.
The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.
The Visitation and Communion of the Sick.
The Order for the Burial of the Dead.
Thanksgiving for Women after Child-bearing.
A Commination.
The Psalter.
A Form of Prayer to be used at Sea.
A Form of Prayer
for the twenty third day of October.
A Form of Prayer for the fifth of November.
A Form of Prayer for the thirtieth of January.
A Form of Prayer for the nine and twentieth day of May.
A Form of Prayer for the first of August. [Accession
service]
A
Form of Prayer for the Chief Governour, or Governours of Ireland.
A Form of Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners.
Note:
Items in grey are unchanged from the 1662
BCP.
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1666, the Church of Ireland adopted the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
of the Church of England, and this book served that Church until
a separate revised Book was approved in 1878.
However,
until 1801 the Church of Ireland was separate from that of England,
and a few differences in its Prayer Book appeared over time, namely
in the addition of several services. These additions included:
- A
service commemorating the thwarted attempt of the seizure of Dublin
Castle by Catholics on Oct. 23, 1641 (this incident and the service
are both rather similar to that in the 1662 BCP for the Gunpowder
Plot).
- A
prayer for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- A
form for the Visitation of Prisoners, approved in 1711; the service
of the same name in older U. S. Prayer Books is essentially identical
to this form.
- Three
related services: for the Consecration of Churches or Chapels,
an Office for the Restoration of a Church, and an Office for the
Expiation of a desecrated Church, were printed in certain Irish
BCP's (but not the ones used here) from 1700.
- A
"Form for receiving lapsed Protestants, or reconciling converted
Papists" also appears in certain Irish BCP's from 1700 (but
again, not the ones used here).
All
differences in the Prayer Books of England and Ireland ceased in
1801 when the two Churches merged, and the unmodified 1662 English
BCP became the Prayer Book in Ireland (however, see the note under
the Visitation
of Prisoners).. What is presented here are only those differences
which appeared prior to that date; to the best of my knowledge,
these are limited to the additional services noted above.
Remember
that these added texts represent a time which is far removed theologically
and politically from us today.
The
texts used here come from two editions of the Irish Book of Common
Prayer: one published in Dublin in 1724 (the title page of which
may be seen at left), and the other also published in Dublin, but
in 1739 (although internal evidence suggests a date of about 1752).
These books appear in David Griffiths' Bibliography of the Book
of Common Prayer as 1724/8 and 1739/9.. |
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