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The Order of Public Worship in the Reformed Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Wilhelm Niesel
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Comparison between the Simple Order of Service of the Reformed Church and that of the Lutheran with its richer content has led to the opinion that Luther merely purged the Mass of some objectionable elements; the Reformers on the contrary totally reconstructed the divine service according to the principle of their knowledge of God. Research into the history of the liturgy has proved that such is not the case. The Strasbourg order of public worship which was brought by Calvin to Geneva and thence passed on to a wider circle of Churches shows clearly its derivation from the medieval Mass, as with the majority of Lutheran orders. The sermon is inserted between two parts of the service which have their origin in the Mass, and the concluding portion of the service is so shaped that Communion may at any time be included in it.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1949 , pp. 381 - 390
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1949

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page 387 note 1 I am vero singulis mensibus coenam celebrari maxime nobis placeret: modo ne usus frequentior negligentiam pariat. Nam dum maior pars a communione abstinet, quodammodo dissipatur ecclesia. Malimus tamen singulis mensibus invitari ecclesiam, quam quater duntaxat in singulos annos … (Calvin 12.8, 1561, C.R. Calv. Opp. 10a, 213). Things were settled in this way in the Palatinate Church Order.