REV. CHARLES HOLE'S London: 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXXVII. [All rights reserved.] THE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATOR, EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A. A Manual of Christian Evidences. By the A Hebrew Grammar. By the Rev. W. H. The Prayer-Book. By the Rev. CHARLES HOLE, B.A., King's College, London. Preaching. By the Rev. CANON S. REYNOLDS HOLE, M.A. A Manual of Church History. In Two Parts. By the Rev. A. C. JENNINGS, M.A., Author of "Ecclesia Anglicana," etc. A Grammar of New Testament Greek. By the Rev. WILLIAM HENRY SIMCOX, M.A., late Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, etc. An Introduction to the Old Testament. By the Rev. C. H. H. WRIGHT, D.D., late Bampton Lecturer, etc. The Creeds. By the Rev. J. E. YONGE, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; and Assistant Master in Eton College. An Introduction to the New Testament. By the Rev. MARCUS DODS, D.D. The Thirty-Nine Articles. By the Rev. H. C. G. MOULE, M.A., Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. A Guide to Theological Literature. By the Rev. MARCUS DODS, D.D., and the EDITOR. OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, SHOWING ITS HISTORY AND CONTENTS. For the use of those studying for Holy Orders, and others. BY THE REV. CHARLES HOLE, B.A., Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London, London: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXXVII. [All rights reserved.] PREFACE. THOSE great expository and vindicatory works on the Book of Common Prayer which have maintained their reputation and authority to the present day, and are still the basis of much that is now written on the subject, began to be produced in the days of Elizabeth. Archbishop Whitgift, in his Defence against Thomas Cartwright, 1574, and Hooker, in his Ecclesiastical Polity, 1597, dealing with various points of the Church system then in dispute, necessarily touched upon the Prayer Book. Whitgift's observations upon it are very desultory and miscellaneous, requiring much search to get at them, and practically almost unavailable,—a result entirely due to the plan of his work, which followed the Puritan line of attack, not a very orderly one. Hooker, though far from exhaustive, is systematic, and his exposition of the Church's worship in his Fifth Book (chaps. xviii.-lxxviii) has attracted the attention of Churchmen in every generation since. So commenced the work of Prayer Book exposition in the ante-Laudian conflicts, while the pillar of the |