...which excluded the 2000 who were then ejected from the Church. The Act contained the requirement of assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, — a stringency of subscription which we have happily seen abrogated by the late recommendation of...

...accepted all the Prayer Book in some Scriptural sense ; now, I find myself unable longer to express my 'unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer;' and therefore it is time for me to retire from a position which demands such ' assent and consent '...

...not only to restore all the ceremonies and other matters to which objection had been taken, but ta contain fresh clauses more intolerable than the rest...declare his unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the book of common prayer f. These words, however capable of being eluded...

...suggestive and interesting : \ " There was a form of agreement once required in the English Church of an unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the ' Book of Common Prayer.' That was a form of agreement which no church had a right to ask, and which, accordingly, a few years...

...1611. 3. It is well known that one of the objections felt by the Nonconformists of 1662 to giving their unfeigned " assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer" was connected with the Apocrypha. They found that in the Prayer Book apocryphal lessons were appointed...

...zeal of the House of Commons, enacted that every clergyman should declare before institution his " assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer,"* and recognised the rule, for which the governors of the Church had almost uniformly contended agreeably...

...he meets at the very threshold a stumbling-block which he cannot surmount, requiring him to give " his unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Thirty-nine Articles and Book of Common Prayer." If he honestly believed all this, he might of course...

...Uniformity, which demanded, among other concessions, from all clergy. men and teachers, subscription of ' unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer,' — two thousand ministers of religion, who valued the rights of conscience more than the means of...

...by the influence of the court, got the lead again, the subscribing the Thirty-nine Articles and an unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the book of common prayer, with many new additions, and the ordinals, was required from the clergy by act of Parliament — which...

...could not, in their consciences, conform to the formularies of the Church of England, and " give their assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer." "Many hundreds of them," says Baxter, " with their wives and children, had neither house nor bread,"...