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  2. Book of Common Order - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Common Order, originally titled The Forme of Prayers, is a liturgical book by John Knox written for use in the Reformed denomination. The text was composed in Geneva in 1556 and was adopted by the Church of Scotland in 1562. In 1567, Séon Carsuel (John Carswell) translated the book into Scottish Gaelic under the title Foirm na n ...

  3. John Knox - Wikipedia

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    John Knox (c. 1514 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Church of Scotland . Born in Giffordgate, a street in Haddington, East Lothian , Knox is believed to have been educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary ...

  4. Black Rubric - Wikipedia

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    In the 1552 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the Black Rubric was written as follows (italics added for emphasis): Although no order can be so perfectly devised, but it may be of some, either for their ignorance and infirmity, or else of malice and obstinacy, misconstrued, depraved, and interpreted in a wrong part: And yet because brotherly charity willeth, that so much as conveniently ...

  5. Book of Common Prayer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Book of Common Prayer (1559) - Wikipedia

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    Still, Continental and Calvinist reformed worship continued to pressure the 1559 prayer book. Knox had introduced his version of John Calvin's La Forme des Prières to Scotland in 1559. Later approved by the Church of Scotland as the Book of Common Order, this Genevan pattern was being secretly used in London by 1567. After a revised version of ...

  7. Book of Common Prayer (1552) - Wikipedia

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    John Knox took The Form of Prayers with him to Scotland, where it formed the basis of the Scottish Book of Common Order. Mary I was succeeded as queen by her Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth I . Elizabeth reversed Mary's religious policies and re-established the Church of England as a Protestant church.

  8. Book of Discipline (Church of Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    The Lords had intended for the parliament to consider a Book of Reformation, that they had commissioned and which was largely the work of John Knox.However, they were unhappy with the document and established a committee of "six Johns", including Knox, John Winram, John Spottiswood, John Willock, John Douglas and John Row, to produce a revised version. [5]

  9. Book of Common Prayer (1604) - Wikipedia

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    The Calvinistic worship in Scotland when James VI sat on the Scottish throne was the Book of Common Order, in conformity to John Knox's Genevan Form of Prayers. According to a rumour in Scotland, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine had unsuccessfully attempted to convince Mary, Queen of Scots –James's Catholic mother and the cardinal's niece–to ...