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Excerpt from The Catholic Movement and the Archbishops' Decision: With a Note on Certain Resolutions
The advocates of incense would say that it was definitely covered by the Ornaments Rubric. But, waiving that point, must it not in any case be a large assumption to suppose that all the old practices to which men were accustomed could be swept away simply by silence? A change so thorough and searching as (on the Arch bishops' View) this was intended to be, called for explicit commands, both negative and positive.
But were these first acts of the reign of Queen Elizabeth of that description? I will endeavour shortly to answer this question. It brings me, however, to another part of my subject, the Archbishops' reading of history, which, speaking with all deference, I cannot but think leaves much to be desired.
Taking the points raised in chronological order, I may be allowed to refer for a moment to what is said as to the date of the first introduction of incense into Christian worship.
The Archbishops allege as a reason for the omission of incense that 'it was certainly not in use in the Church for at least three hundred years from the Apostolic times.'
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