The litany of the English Church : considered in its history, its plan, and the manner in which it is intended to be used

William Henry Karslake

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NO. 2-,OFFRQM-THE LIBRARY
TWNITYCOLLEGETORQNTOTHE LITANY OF THE ENGLISH
CHURCH.THE LITANY
THE ENGLISH CHURCH
CONSIDERED IN
its anD manner iniiistorn, theplan, to[ric|j
it i:i intfu&c& to be uscb
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RKV. W. II. M.A.KARSLAKK,
Assistant / r,-,iLin-r nt Lincoln s Imi; I icar U Dorof l^taitt,
Late J-iflmu anJ Tutor of Mcrton College, Oxford.
LONDON
BASIL MONTAGU PICKERING
PICCADILLY196
187651-45
7JAN 2 1982PREFACE.
an is made toT X the following pages attempt
a contribution towards a of thegive history
Hook of thein the Church
;Litany Prayer Knglish
and at the same time to show the general plan
to which it is and the manner inaccording arranged,
which is to be used.it intended
Such an has not been made sohitherto,attempt
isfar as the Writer aware there arc
; though many
valuable remarks on the which thoseLitany, among
and thoseof Mr. Palmer in the Origines Liturgicaj,
of in his Introduction and Notes toCanon Bright
the in the Annotated Hook of Common Prayer,Litany
hold the chief place.
With the constant and thedistractions, separation
books as are needed for the offrom such purpose
ofwhich the care aliturgical study, country parish
it has not been for theentails,necessarily possible
to research as much as he wouldWriter originalpursuePREFACE.vi
of such scatteredin himselfhave wished. But, availing
he hashe could collect from othermaterials as writers,
on whosestatements of thosethe onlyreproduced
that reliance couldhe had reason to believeaccuracy
be placed.
of theaccount in the secondIf the given chapter
seemsof Litanies in the Christian Churchorigino
his must beand incomplete, apologyfragmentary
that this could be otherwise from the nature ofhardly
the case. While it is to describe some ancienteasy
and tree of the and to narrate soforest,distinguished
much as is known as to the mode in which it andgrew
its branches abroad far and it isgradually spread wide,
hard to how it first and to trace itssay sprang up,
roots hidden beneath the soil. in a similardeep And,
all seems if the isway, plain popular conception repeated,
"
that for four hundred there were no ofyears prayers
this kind in the Christian and thespecial Church,"
is as intoLitany represented existsuddenly springing
ence in the fifth as if the of Vienne hadcentury, Bishop
indeed been under the of diregifted, topressure distress,
devise a new form for as hewholly drawing down, hoped,
the of God. But it is far harder to trace howmercy
from the first the needs of men found exgradually
more and more in that modepression of earnest