Comfortable Words: Church English

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When in the Name of Jesus’ Cross by St John Damascene

A hymn for Holy Saturday by the eighth-century Syrian hymnographer St John Damascene.

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A Collect for Peace from The Book of Common Prayer

A short prayer from Evensong in the Book of Common Prayer.

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The Authorized Version

A list of all the books in the Authorized ‘King James’ translation of the Bible.

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The Comfortable Words from The Book of Common Prayer

Four short passages from the New Testament appointed to be read aloud in the English Book of Common Prayer of 1549.

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About the Authorized Version by Clay Lane

In 1611, a team of scholars delivered to King James I of England the new translation of the Bible that he had commissioned from them.

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A Collect for Easter Day from The Book of Common Prayer

A short prayer from the Book of Common Prayer, for the day of Christ’s resurrection.

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The Son of God Goes Forth to War by Reginald Heber

A hymn in praise of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

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Thus Angels Sung by George Wither

A Christmas hymn from the seventeenth century, recalling the song the angels sang to the shepherds of Bethlehem.