...for his theology, it is wholly to his mind, holding, like the Prayer Book, 'the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation ' every doubt into unbounded admiration. There is room for such a book on John Knox. It has just come...

...principles laid down in the Preface to the Book of Common Prayer, of keeping the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from her Public Liturgy, and accordingly desires the fullest liberty consistent with loyalty to the existing...

...Church, the principle deliberately adopted by the Church of England was to "keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in refusing and of too much easiness in admitting variation." The principle of combining continuity and progress is one which underlies all sound development,...

...which the purpose of the English Church in worship is declared to be " to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting any variation." " We have rejected," says the Preface, " all such [changes] as were either of dangerous consequence...

...The position of the Committee is not easy. Theirs is the old problem of a just mean between " the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness " in passing anything. A reputation for arbitrary treatment of authors would result in none but young and...

...compiling rubrics and liturgies as well scientific as ecclesiastic, " to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting, variations from things established by authority ? " To overcome these difficulties, and to meet these...

...of England, ever since the first compiling of her Public Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of too much easiness in admitting, any variations from it.' Changes may doubtless be necessary; but they are apt, at the best, to produce...

...communion.3 At the Reformation the policy of the Church of England was to keep the mean between the two extremes of too much stiffness in refusing and of too much easiness in admitting changes.4 An attempt was made to combine continuity and progress.5 Now to-day an organisation which...

...of England, ever since the first compiling of her Public Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of...too much easiness in admitting any variation from it ... Yet so, as that the main Body and Essentials of it (as well in the chiefest materials, as in the...

...of England, ever since the first compiling of her publick Liturgy, to keep the mean between the two extremes, of too much stiffness in refusing, and of...much easiness in admitting any variation from it. Book of Common Prayer, the Preface, Revision of 1662 1 1 In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things,...