• 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...
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    The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically...
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    The 1604 Book of Common Prayer, often called the Jacobean prayer book or the Hampton Court Book, is the fourth version of the Book of Common Prayer as...
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    The 1552 Book of Common Prayer, also called the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI, was the second version of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) and contained...
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    John Knox (category Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
    association with the Church of England. The University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection holds a copy of The Book of Common Order, translated into Scots Gaelic...
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  • Book of Order is a governing document of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), abbreviated as PC(USA). It is divided into four parts: The Foundations of Presbyterian...
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    The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as...
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  • (USA). Presently, the primary liturgical book of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is The Book of Common Worship of 1993, published in cooperation with the...
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    The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is an authorised liturgical book of the Church of England and other Anglican bodies around the world. In continuous print...
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    The 1979 Book of Common Prayer is the official primary liturgical book of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church. An edition in the same tradition as other versions...
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    The 1637 Book of Common Prayer, commonly known as the Scottish Prayer Book or Scottish liturgy, was a version of the English Book of Common Prayer revised...
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    Scotland. Along with the Book of Discipline and the Book of Common Order, this is considered to be a formational document for the Church of Scotland during the...
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    Lord's Day. The practices are found in the Book of Common Worship, the Book of Order and the Book of Common Order. It may start usually with the following...
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  • translations into Irish. The Book of Common Order was translated into Scottish Gaelic by Séon Carsuel (John Carswell), Bishop of the Isles, and printed in...
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    Book of Common Worship of 1906 The Book of Common Worship of 1932 The Book of Common Worship of 1946 The Book of Common Worship of 1993 The Book of Worship...
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    as part of the Book of Common Order which was a more general directory for public worship. The precise details concerning the publication of the Scottish...
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    The 1549 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the original version of the Book of Common Prayer, variations of which are still in use as the official liturgical...
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  • Church of Scotland has no compulsory prayer book, although it does have a hymn book (the 4th edition was published in 2005). Its Book of Common Order contains...
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  • meals or drinks. A practice also associated with book discussion, common reading program or common read, involves institutions encouraging their members...
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  • The Discipline of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection Book of Discipline of the Church of Scotland and Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland Within...
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    Knox's Book of Common Order, was the first book printed in either Scottish or Irish Gaelic. Before that time, the vernacular dialects of Ireland and Scotland...
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    Jenny Geddes (category Wars of the Three Kingdoms)
    head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer...
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    merchant's commonplace book (New Haven, CT, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 327) Mrs. Anna Anderson, A Common Place Book of Thoughts, Memories...
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    Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law primarily developed through judicial decisions rather than...
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  • book by Johannes Kepler as the Latin: annus aerae nostrae vulgaris (year of our common era), and to 1635 in English as "Vulgar Era". The term "Common...
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    English Reformation (category History of the Church of England)
    Church of England. The Act of Uniformity of 1559 authorised the 1559 Book of Common Prayer, which was a revised version of the 1552 Prayer Book from Edward's...
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    participants in the 1525 upheaveal". In the sixteenth century, many parts of Europe had common political links within the Holy Roman Empire, a decentralized entity...
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    in 1641, an abridgment of John Knox's Book of Common Order was presented to the Long Parliament. In 1644, another adaptation of the same original was presented...
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    Marian exiles (category Mary I of England)
    the Church of Scotland from 1564 to 1645. Sometimes titled Book of Our Common Order, it is the basis for the modern Book of Common Order used by Presbyterian...
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    A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and...
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