ISBN: 9781153671590

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 126 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 126 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: . . . chancel-arch was very commonly blocked up, either with a wall, or a partition of boards or plaster, against which these two Tables were placed. Beneath these was placed a third Table, called indifferently the Lords Table, or the Lords Board, or the Communion Table. b This table or board was ordered to be moveable, and it was probably placed upon trestles, the same as a domestic table in a hall of the same period would have been. Whatever it rested upon certainly formed no part of the table, in the language of that day. The modern upholsterers usage of the word table, to include the framework and the legs on which it rests, is not above a century old. I have occasionally met with the Tables of the Commandments of the time of Edward VI. or of Elizabeth, still remaining against the boarded partition under the chancel-arch. A Communion-table of that period I do not remember to have met with: they were all removed into the body of the church by the Puritans; and the earliest Communion-tables we find are generally of the time of Charles II. In these the table itself--that is, the board or slab--is always detached, resting on the framework by its own weight only, or else it is fastened with modern nails or screws. This seems to be in conformity with ancient usage, as we find mention in mediaeval documents of the tables This order for the preservation of chancels was objected to by the Puritans on these grounds: Whether the preservation of chancels be not scandalous to many by confirming them in the superstitious opinion of the holiness of one place more than of another. --Survey, and c. p. 40. b Bucer objected to the communion table being placed on the same site as the altar had stood upon, and his advice was followed by Archbishop Grindal in h. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<