 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1913 - 536 pages
...(with special exceptions noted below) any book of it.* But is it not true that ' the ancient Fathers so ordered the matter that all the whole Bible (or...part thereof) should be read over once every year ' ? Any such idea was entirely foreign to the lesson-systems of 1 See an article on the Mozarabic Breviary... | |
 | Percy Dearmer - Episcopalians - 1915 - 310 pages
...the Common Prayers in the Church." This, the preface says, was the method of the ancient Fathers, who so ordered the matter 'that — "all the whole Bible,...every year ; intending thereby, that t,h,e Clergy, RANWORTH CHURCH, NORFOLK. (A. village church, unspoilt, and truly restored, with a famous late.Gothic... | |
 | Percy Dearmer - Episcopalians - 1915 - 296 pages
...the Common Prayers in the Church." This, the preface says, was the method of the ancient Fathers, who so ordered the matter that — " all the whole Bible,...read over once every year ; intending thereby, that r,h,e Clergy, RANWORTH CHURCH, NORFOLK. (A village church, unspoilt, and truly restored, with a famous... | |
 | Religion - 1920 - 404 pages
...the Preface Concerning the Service of the Church. THE READING OF THE BIBLE. ' The ancient Fathers ... so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...once every year ; intending thereby . . . that the people (by daily hearing of holy Scripture read in the Church) might continually profit more and more... | |
 | Randall Thomas Davidson - Anglican Communion - 1920 - 480 pages
...in the choice of Lessons might well be given, provided that the principle is safeguarded by which " all the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once every year." Such liberty is given in the American Church, and suggestions have been made which are worthy of consideration... | |
 | Church of England - 1920 - 514 pages
...the same was not ordayned but of a good purpose, and for a great aduancemente of godlynesse. For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or the greatest part thereof) shoulde be readde ouer once in the yeare entendynge thereby, that the clergie and speciallye suche... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1873 - 526 pages
...luminous with the plain wisdom of common sense, the intention of the Service is stated to be — " that the clergy, and especially such as were ministers...godliness themselves and be more able to exhort others by wholesome doctrine, and to confute them that were adversaries to the truth ; and further, that the... | |
 | S. L. Greenslade - Religion - 1975 - 660 pages
...great part since (we are told) 'the ancient Fathers. . .so ordered the matter that all the whole 482 Bible (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once every year' for the edification of clergy and people alike. But this godly and decent order has been altered, so... | |
 | BCP7205 - Religion - 1984 - 1042 pages
...the same was not ordained, but of a good purpose, and for a great advancement of godliness: For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible (or...the greatest part thereof) should be read over once in the year, intending thereby, that the Clergy, and especially such as were Ministers of the congregation,... | |
 | Robert Hannaford - Anglican Communion - 1996 - 172 pages
...influence is apparent in the Preface to the 1549 Prayer Book which states 'that all the whole Bible . . . should be read over once every year; intending thereby,...in the Congregation, should (by often reading and meditating in God's Word) be stirred up to godliness themselves, and be more able to exhort others... | |
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For they so ordered the matter, that all the whole Bible, (or the greatest part thereof) should be read over once every year; intending thereby, that the Clergy, and especially such as were Ministers in the congregation, should (by often reading, and... 
