COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE SACRAMENTS,

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND:

TOGETHER WITH

THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID,

POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES;

AND

THE FORM AND MANNER OF MAKING, ORDAINING, AND CONSECRATING OF

BISHOPS, PRIESTS, AND DEACONS.

EDINBURGH:

R. LENDRUM &, CO., HANOVER STREET.
MDCCCXLIX.

Title page

Bp. Patrick Torry

THE
CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.

I. The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read.
2. The Order how the rest of the holy Scripture is appointed to be read.
3. A Table of Proper Lessons and Psalms.
4. The Calendar, with the Table of Lessons.
5. Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts through the whole Year.
6. The Order for Morning Prayer.
7. The Order for Evening Prayer.
8. The Creed of St. Athanasius.
9. The Litany.
10. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions.
11. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used at the Administration of the Holy Communion, throughout the Year.
12. The Office for the Holy Communion.
13. The Order of Baptism both Publick and Private.
14. The Order of Baptism for those of Riper Years.
15. The Catechism.
16. The Order of Confirmation.
17. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.
18. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, and the Communion of the Sick.
19. The Order for the Burial of the Dead.
20. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth.
21. A Commination, or denouncing of God's anger and judgments against Sinners.
22. The Psalter.
23. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.
24. The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
25. Articles of Religion.

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I HEREBY certify that I have carefully examined this Edition of the Book of Common Prayer, and that it is in strict conformity with the Usage of the Church of Scotland; and I accordingly recommend it to the Use of the Clergy of my own Diocese.

PATK. TORRY, D.D.,
Bishop of St. Andrew's, Dunkeld, and Dunblane.

This was the second attempt at a Book of Common Prayer in Scotland, and, like the first, it was unsuccessful.

At this time the Scottish Episcopal Church had been an independent Church for over 150 years, initially under severe restrictions by the English crown for its Jacobite leanings, but by now fully accepted. At first its liturgies were taken from either the English Book of Common Prayer or from Nonjuror's services, with a modified Scottish Communion Service in common usage. However, by the mid 19th century, when this book was published, the Nonjurors movement had long died out, and the Scottish Communion Service was little used, so most of the Scottish Episcopal Church used the English BCP unchanged.

At the time he issued this book, Bishop Torry was one of the longest-serving bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and a proponent of the Scottish Communion Service. There was a desire among him and certain clergy of his diocese for a Scottish Prayer Book, of which this is the result. While Bp. Torry was not the author of this book, he obviously authorized and promoted it.

This book, once released, met with immediate condemnation. This was largely because Bp. Torry published it on his own, without consulting or even informing not only his fellow bishops, but also his own diocesan synod. While this was probably legal, it was certainly ill-advised. Other objections included the absence of the English Communion Service (the Scottish one used here is closely based on that of 1764), and the use of the reserved sacrament. More information on Bp. Torry and this book may be found in a sympathetic biography, The Life and Times of Patrick Torry, by John Mason Neale.

Over the next 50 years or so, however, the Scottish Communion Service regained popularity, and the Scottish Episcopal Church finally got its own Prayer Book in 1912.

This book is listed in David Griffiths' Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer as 1849/26.

The following is description of the differences (other than those in the Communion service) between this Book and the 1662 Church of England Prayer Book, taken from The Life and Times of Patrick Torry, by J. M. Neale, p. 277-280. That book also has a side-by-side comparison of this Communion service with those of 1764, Nonjurors, and 1637.

The Calendar has these additional Saints : SS. David, Jan. 11; Mungo, Jan. 13; Colman, Feb. 18; Constantine, March 11 ; Patrick, March 17; Cyril, March 18; Cuthbert, March 20; Gilbert, April 1; Serf, April 20 ; Columba, June 9 ; Palladius, July 6 ; Ninian, Sept. 16 ; Adamnan, Sept. 20 ; Margaret, Nov. 16; Ode, Nov. 27; Drostane, Dec. 4. These were taken from the Calendar prefixed to Laud s book.
Morning and Evening Prayer, and the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, are verbally the same with those in our own book.
The Office of Public Baptism is prefaced by rubrics, compounded of that in the English Book, and of part of the XVIIth Scotch Canon, the only essential difference between those and our own being the permission given to parents to become Sponsors for their own children.
At the end of the Baptismal Service is a Scottish use :

"When Baptism is not administered during Divine Service, the Minister shall conclude with the Apostolic Benediction, The Grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, &c."

The public Baptism of adults is followed by a rubric regarding re-baptism, also taken from the XVIIth Canon.
The Catechism is followed by rubrics taken from the XVIIIth ; and Confirmation in like manner prefaced from the XlXth.
The form of Confirmation is as follows:—

The Visitation of the Sick is preceded by rubrics from the XXIIIrd Canon.
It was, however, those in the Communion of the Sick which gave the greatest offence, they here follow:—

In the Ordination Services, the necessary alterations of "Primus" &c. were made, and some very long rubrics affixed, principally taken from the Canons.

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