Early in its development, Anglicanism developed a vernacular prayer book, called the Book of Common Prayer.

Instead, Anglicans have typically appealed to the Book of Common Prayer and its offshoots as a guide to Anglican theology and practice.

* 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

The 1552 and later editions of the Book of Common Prayer omitted the form of anointing given in the original ( 1549 ) version in its Order for the Visitation of the Sick, but most twentieth-century Anglican prayer books do have anointing of the sick.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

It is notable for omitting the line " he descended into hell ", but is otherwise very similar to the Book of Common Prayer version.

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

The liturgical communities in western Christianity that derive their rituals from the Roman Missal, including those particular communities which use the Roman Missal itself ( Roman Catholics ), the Book of Common Prayer ( Anglicans / Episcopalians ), the Lutheran Book of Worship ( ELCA Lutherans ), Lutheran Service Book ( Missouri-Synod Lutherans ), use the Apostles ' Creed and interrogative forms of it in their rites of Baptism, which they consider to be the first sacrament of initiation into the Church.

** Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, " Anglican realignment " and other Anglican churches.

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

A Book of Common Prayer with local variations is used in churches inside and outside the Anglican Communion in over 50 different countries and in over 150 different languages.

Traditional English Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language.

Like the Authorized King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare, many words and phrases from the Book of Common Prayer have entered common parlance.

The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England 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.

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.

After Mary's death in 1558, it became the primary source for the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, with subtle if significant changes only.

Consequently, when the accession of Elizabeth I re-asserted the dominance of Protestantism in England, there remained a significant body of Reformed believers who were nevertheless hostile to the Book of Common Prayer.

John Knox took The Form of Prayers with him to Scotland, where it formed the basis of the Scots Book of Common Order.

After the last anointing, the Gospel Book is opened and placed with the writing down upon the head of the one who was anointed, and the senior priest reads the " Prayer of the Gospel ".

Finally, in 1549, Cornishmen rose once again in rebellion when the staunchly Protestant Edward VI tried to impose a new Prayer Book.

This became known as the Prayer Book Rebellion.

Proposals to translate the Prayer Book into Cornish were suppressed and in total 4, 000 people were killed in the rebellion.

The Book of Discipline normally allows any youth at least completing sixth grade to participate, although the pastor has discretionary authority to allow a younger person to participate.

Some Lutheran churches form an exception to this rule, as the Lutheran Book of Concord allows ordination to be received as a sacrament.

Book 1 Postulate 4 states that all right angles are equal, which allows Euclid to use a right angle as a unit to measure other angles with.

* In the Book of Job God allows Job to suffer ( 1: 6-12 and 2: 1-6 ).

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The PCA requires ordained pastors and elders to subscribe to the theological doctrines detailed in the Westminster Standards, with only minor exceptions allowed, while the PC ( USA )' s Book of Confessions allows much more leeway.

:* In the Book of Job, God allows Satan to plague His loyal servant Job with devastating tragedies leaving all his children dead and himself poor.

" The Book One deals with the withdrawal of the outward life — so far as positive duty allows and emphasizes an interior life by renouncing all that is vain and illusory, resisting temptations and distractions of life, giving up the pride of learning and to be humble, forsaking the disputations of theologians and patiently enduring the world's contempt and contradiction.

The Emerald City of Oz reveals that she owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens.

Ronald Kahn of the Law and Politics Book Review wrote that the book was " terrific in demonstrating the natural rights background to our Constitution and demonstrating that all rights cannot be listed in the Constitution ", but that " Barnett ’ s fundamental problem is that he allows for “ constitutional construction ” when originalism cannot tell us which meanings to adopt, but he does not seem to allow for social construction of law, or changing social meanings ".

* In Jasper Fforde's 2011 novel One of our Thursdays Is Missing, the Lady of Shalott possesses a mirror that allows characters in the Book World to see into the real world (" the Outland ").

Some of the free programming the Chicago Public Library offers include: The One Book One Chicago program, The Summer Reading Program, The Adult Summer Reading Program, Bookamania ( held every November ), Great Kids Museum Passport Program ( allows patrons free admission to a variety of Chicago's world-class institutions ), and Words and Music Program ( which provides patrons with free lawn tickets to selected Ravinia concerts ).

* The Rod of Rassilon ( referred to as " the Great Key " in the Book of the Old Time in " The Deadly Assassin ") allows the user to physically access the containment / control apparatus of the Eye of Harmony itself, that was historically hidden beneath the Panopticon central dias.

John Dominic Crossan notes the mutilated condition in his introduction to the fragmentary text in The Complete Gospels resulting in highly conjectural reconstructions of the text, which, however, " does not seem to be dependent on the New Testament gospels .... As an independent gospel, it belongs, insofar as its fragmentary state allows us to see, not with discourse gospels involving the risen Jesus ( e. g., the Secret Book of James and the Gospel of Mary ), but with sayings gospels involving the earthly Jesus ( e. g., Q document and the Gospel of Thomas ).

As of early 2006, approximately 400 bookstores participated in the Book Sense gift card program, which allows shoppers to buy a gift card in one member store and redeem it in another.

Islam allows a man to marry a woman from the People of the Book, that is, Christians and Jews.

The Qur ' an explicitly allows Muslim men to marry chaste women of the People of the Book, a term which includes Jews and Christians.

* Web Based Referral ( WBR ) allows a GP to access Choose and Book via a standard web browser until their Clinical Computing system can be successfully upgraded.

He allows Book and Simon to cut down the victims and give them a modest ceremony, keeping them out of the way while Kaylee removes a Reaver booby trap that attached itself to Serenity when they docked earlier.

" The app allows the researcher to search all Deseret Book titles at one time as well as other associated Gospel references.

The Purple Book format allows a CD to hold 1. 3 Gigabytes by narrowing the track pitch from 1. 6 to 1. 1 micrometre s, and shortening the minimum pit length from 0. 833 to 0. 623 micrometres.

On 24 August 1988 Swaythling was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the site of the largest street party in the world when the A335 Thomas Lewis Way, which allows traffic to bypass Swaythling and the neighbouring suburb of Portswood when travelling from the M27 to Southampton's city centre, was first opened.

The Google Book Search Settlement Agreement allows for legal protection for Google's scanning project, even though neither side changed its position about whether scanning books was fair use or copyright infringement.