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.
Cambridge, Printed by John Archdeacon Printer to the University;
and Sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White,
and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill,
in Cambridge, 1771.
Bound Together with . . .
The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre.
By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others.
Conferr'd with the Hebrew.
Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham, Printer to the University,
by Whom They are Sold in Cambridge, and by Benj. Dod
Bookseller in Ave-Mary Lane, London 1758.
The Book of Common Prayer:
Influence on William Carey
Born and baptized into an Anglican home in 1761, William Carey was the son of Edmund Carey, a parish clerk and schoolmaster. Brought up as an Anglican, Carey would have been familiar with the two most important books in English: the King James Version of the Bible (first published, 1611) and The Book of Common Prayer, the leading English language liturgical guide to prayer, scripture reading, and religious devotion. The importance of these two books on William Carey cannot be overstated. After the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society (i.e., BFBS) in 1804 by Dissenters, the dominance of these two Anglican books continued among people in the Established Church of England. In 1810, a review of the potential conflict between the BFBS and Anglican Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge appeared in The Quarterly Review. The issue—from the Establishment point of view—was whether the BFBS should have been formed and whether Establishment members (i.e., Anglicans) should belong to the BFBS. In the course of the review, a pertinent passage (p. 74, p. 75) concerning the importance of the King James Version and The Book of Common Prayer appeared, which said,
At the present time then we stand with our Bible in one hand, and our Common Prayer in the other. We must cast away neither. Looking at both, indeed, we see the identity of their principles. This is our strong ground. Our Liturgy is drawn from the Scriptures, and we contend, that it may be resolved into them again by the soundest process of argument, and by the most exact tracing of authorities. But, thus extracted from the Scriptures, it is to be for ever maintained, together with them, by all the true sons of the Church. It is the external monument and test of our Establishment; and hence we are bound, in a peculiar degree, to maintain the Book of Common Prayer, and all the doctrines calculated for its support. But by preferring the Bible alone to the Bible and Liturgy united, we return to the imperfect state in which we were before the completion of our Reformation. This road, indeed, is open to Dissenters (p. 75).
In his role as parish clerk, Edmund Carey not only was responsible for advocating these two most important books, but also he had to maintain parish records related to church attendance and donations, baptism, marriage, death, deeds, and wills. Most important for young William's upbringing, however, was Edmund's responsibility to serve at the church altar and function as a lector in Sunday church services. In Edmund's role as a lector, William would have heard his father read the King James Version, The Book of Common Prayer, and to lead the choir and congregants in singing and responsorial lessons from The Book of Common Prayer or a common hymnal such as The Whole Book of Psalms. Such order was William Carey's formative religious instruction.
In Eustace Carey's Memoir of William Carey, D.D., (p. 5), William Carey conveys the content and method of his Anglican upbringing:
In the first fourteen years of my life, I had many advantages of a religious nature, but was wholly unacquainted with the scheme of salvation by Christ. During this time I had many stirrings of mind, occasioned by my being often obliged to read books of a religious character; and having been accustomed, from my infancy, to read the Scriptures, I had a considerable acquaintance therewith, especially with the historical parts. I also have no doubt but the constant reading of the Psalms, Lessons, & c., in the parish church, which I was obliged to attend regularly, tended to furnish my mind with a general Scripture knowledge.
The Book of Common Prayer:
History and Content, 1549-1771
The history of The Book of Common Prayer probably began with Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556. In 1549, Cranmer produced the first Book of Common Prayer. Several revisions to Cranmer's work occurred between 1549 and Carey's early life in Northamptonshire, 1761-1780. Some significant editions of the Book of Common Prayer include the following editions as presented by the Anglican Society of Archbishop Justus, which maintains an elaborate web page devoted to The Book of Common Prayer.
The Sarum Missal (in use in English churches prior to the Book of Common Prayer)
1549, Book of Common Prayer (the first)
1552, Book of Common Prayer (the second prayer book of Edward VI)
1559, Book of Common Prayer (the Elizabethan prayer book)
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer (as printed by John Baskerville, 1762)
For histories of The Book of Common Prayer, click on the links below which are archived here:
Percy Dearmer. Everyman's History of the Prayer Book. London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 1912.
J. H. Benton. The Book of Common Prayer: Its Origins and Growth. Boston: Privately Printed, 1910.
William Reed Huntington. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer. 1893.
Cambridge, 1771
Below are links to the Carey Center's full-text 1771 Cambridge edition of The Book of Common Prayer. Please note that this edition is not paginated in the original copy, and this landscape edition is presented in Adobe format.
Title Page 4-5
The Contents of This Book, 6-7
The Preface. 8-9
Concerning the Service of the Church. 10-11
Concerning Ceremonies 10-11 12-13
The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read. 12-13
The Order how the rest of holy Scripture is appointed to be read. 12-13
Tables of Proper Lessons for the Sundays and Holy-days throughout the year. 14-15
A Table of Proper Psalms on certain Days. 14-15
The Calendar, with the Table of Lessons. 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27
Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts throughout the year. 28-29 30-31 32-33 34-35 36-37
The Order for Morning Prayer 38-39 40-41 42-43 44-45 46-47
The Order for Evening Prayer 48-49 50-51 52-53 54-55 56-57
The Litany to be Sung or Said After Morning Prayer 58-59 60-61 62
Prayers and Thanksgivings on Several Occasions 63 64-65 66-67
The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels to be Used Throughout the Year
Advent 68-69 70-71 72-73 74-75 76-77 78-79 80-81 82-83
Epiphany 84-85 86-87 88-89 90-91 92-93 94-95 96
Quinquagesima 100-101
Lent 101 102-103 104-105 106-107 108-109 110-111 112-113 114-115
116-117 118-119 120-121 122-123 124-125 126-127 128-129 130-131
132-133 134-135 136-137 138-139 140-141 142-143 144-145 146
Easter 146-147 148-149 150-151 152-153 154-155 156-157 158-159
Ascension Day 158-159 160-161 162-163
Whit-Sunday 164-165 166-167 168
Trinity Sunday (and afterward) 169 170-171 172-173 174-175 176-177
178-179 180-181 182-183 184-185 186-187 188-189 190-191
Holy Days for the Saints
St. Andrew 199
St. Thomas the Apostle 200
The Conversion of St. Paul 201 202
The Purification of St. Mary the Virgin 203 204-205 206
The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 208-209 210-211 212-213
St. Philip and St. James 215 216-217
St. John Baptist 218-219 220-221
St. Peter 220-221 222-223 224-225 226
St. James the Apostle 226-227
St. Bartholomew and St. Matthew Apostles 227 228
St. Michael and All the Angels 228-229 230-231
St. Luke the Evangelist 231 232
St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles 232-233
The Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper of Holy Communion.
236-237 238-239 240-241 242-243 244-245 246-247 248-249 250-251 252-253 254
Rules for the Administration of the Lord's Supper and Denial of Real Presence. 252-253 254
The Administration of Publick Baptism of Infants. 254-255 256-257 258-259
The Administration of Private Baptism of Children in Houses. 259 260-261 262-263 264-265
The Administration of Baptism to such as are of riper years, and able to answer for themselves. 266-267 268-269 270-271
A Catechism, that is to say, an Instruction to be learned of every Person, before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop. 272-273 274-275 276
The Order of Confirmation, or laying on of hands upon those that are baptized, and come to years of discretion. 276-277 278
The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony. 278-279 280-281 282-283 284
The Order for the Visitation of the Sick. 285 286-287 288-289 290
The Communion of the Sick. 291 292
The Order for the Burial of the Dead. 293 294-295 296-297 298-299
The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth commonly called, the Churching of Women. 298-299
A Commination, or denouncing of God's anger and judgements against sinners, with certain Prayers to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times, as the Ordinary shall appoint. 300-301 302-303 304
The Psalter or Psalms of DAVID, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
Psalms 1-50 305 306-307 308-309 310-311 312-313 314-315 316-317
318-319 320-321 322-323 324-325 326-327 328-329 330-331 332-333
Psalms 51-100 339 340-341 342-343 344-345 346-347 348-349 350-351
352-353 354-355 356-357 358-359 360-361 362-363 364-365 366-367
368-369 370-371 372-373 374-375
Psalms 101-150 375 376-377 378-379 380-381 382-383 384-385 386-387
388-389 390-391 392-393 394-395 396-397 398-399 400-401 402-403
Forms of Prayer to be Used at Sea. 411 412-413 414-415 416
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving, to be used yearly upon the fifth day of November; for the happy Deliverance of King JAMES I, and the Three Estates of England, from the most traiterous and bloody intended Massacre by Gunpowder; and also for the happy arrival of his Majesty King WILLIAM on this day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation. 417 418-419 420-421
A Form of Prayer with Fasting, to be used yearly upon the Thirtieth of January, being the day of the Martyrdom of the blessed King Charles I. 422-423 424-425 426-427 428
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for having put an end to the Great Rebellion, by the Restitution of the King and Royal Family, and the Restoration of the Government after many years interruption; which unspeakable mercies were wonderfully completed upon the Twenty ninth of May, in the year 1660; and in memory thereof, that day in every year is by Act of Parliament appointed to be for ever kept holy. 429 430-431 432-433 434
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God to be used in all Churches and Chapels within this Realm, every Year, upon the Twenty-fifth day of October; being Day on which His Majesty began his happy Reign.
His Majesty's Declaration and Articles of Religion. 440-441 442-443 444-445 446-447 448-449 450-451 452-453 454
The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre.
By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others.
Conferr'd with the Hebrew.
London, 1758.
Thomas Sternhold (d. 1549) was a court poet to Henry VIII, and composed about thirty biblical psalms for singing in common meter. Sternhold described himself in Certayne Psalmes (ca. 1549) as "grome of the kynge’s Majesties roobes" (i.e., "groom of the king's Majesty's robes"). Later, John Hopkins added over sixty psalms to Sternhold's work, and by 1573, all 150 psalms had been set into form for singing. More often than not during the late sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, Sternhold and Hopkins's work appeared along with The Book of Common Prayer.
Psalms
1, 2, 3 4-8 8-13 13-18 18-20 20-23 24-27 27-31 31-35 35-37 37-40 40-44 44-48 48-50 50-51 51-56 56-60 60-65 65-68 68-70 71-73 73-76 76-78 78-80 80-84 84-88 88-89 89-93 94-97 97-102 102-104 104-105 105-107 107-109 109-114 114-118 118-119 119 119 119-124 125-132 132-136 136-139 139-144 144-148 149-150
Various Hymns and Prayers
Veni Creator; An Hymn before Sermon; The Humble Suit of a Sinner
The Lamentation of a Sinner; Gloria Patri; A Table for the Whole Number of the Psalms
Created: April 22, 2005 Updated: April 27, 2005