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CHAPTER X.
PRAISE VI.
The Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The Apostles' Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Uses of Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 History of the Apostles' Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Creeds in the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Primitive Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Close of the Praise Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
CHAPTER XI.
Reason, History, and Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 I. About God, a. What Reason has to say . . . . . . . . 101 b. What the Bible Revelation has to say . 104 II. About Jesus Christ, a. What the outside world said . 106 b. What the Bible says . . . . . 107 III. About the Holy Ghost. What the Bible says . . . . . . 111
CHAPTER XII.
Excursus on The 'Athanasian' Creed . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
CHAPTER XIII.
The Service of Prayer. I. Preces and Collects . . . . . . 127 Worship-Forms in the Prayer Service . . . . . . . . . . . 128 The Prayer Service Rubrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 A. Preces, 132; B. Collects, 134; C. The other Prayers . . 142
CHAPTER XIV.
The Service of Prayer. II. Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . 146 a. Simple Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Example. Advent setting of Venite . . . . . . . . . . -- b. Compound Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Example. The Easter Anthems in their original form . . -- Praise and Prayer Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Hymns as Anthems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
CHAPTER XV.
The Service of Prayer. III. The Litany . . . . . . . . . 153 Ancient Litanies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Rogation Litanies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Structure of the Litany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 i. Our cry to Christ, 159. ii. Our cry to the Father, 170. iii. Appeal for help, 171. iv. Pressing anxieties of the moment, 172. v. Final Commendation of our prayers to Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Appendix C. Lessons in the Day Hours . . . . . . . . . . 173 Appendix D. Pliny's Letter to Trajan . . . . . . . . . . 174 Appendix E. The addition of Filioque . . . . . . . . . 176 Appendix F. Greek origin of Litanies . . . . . . . . . . 177 Tables of Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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CHAPTER I.
EXTEMPORE WORSHIP AND FORMS OF WORSHIP.
There is no such special merit in monotony as to require that the worship of God should be conducted wholly in one method rather than in several. Rather it must be acknowledged that there is merit in variety if it be subjected to dignity and order. For a certain measure of variety arrests and engages the attention of the worshippers and sustains their interest.
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