The Acts of Uniformity
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The Prayer-book is a liturgical document, and surelyit should be interpreted by the principles which applynot to statutes, but to liturgies in general.
If the Acts of Uniformity are not laws for regulatingdivine worship, what are they? I should callthem, briefly, laws of persecution. They were intendedto enforce on all men by criminal process theobservance of the Church's forms. That is persecution, I suppose, if anything can be so called. I shallnot indulge in any moral reflexions on persecuti...on. They may be taken for granted. I shall only notethe dry fact that within thirty years of the last enactmentthe whole purpose of the statutes was destroyedby the Act of Toleration. A good part of them hasbeen formally repealed, as may be seen by a glanceat their text as printed in the Revised Statutes. What remains? A singular ruin. The effect of thelaw has been turned upside down. It was intendedonly to restrain dissenters; dissenters are now theonly people to whom it does not apply. It was intendedonly to prevent unauthorized variations fromthe Prayer-book; it is effective now to preventauthorized variations alone.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Prayer-book is a liturgical document, and surelyit should be interpreted by the principles which applynot to statutes, but to liturgies in general.
If the Acts of Uniformity are not laws for regulatingdivine worship, what are they? I should callthem, briefly, laws of persecution. They were intendedto enforce on all men by criminal process theobservance of the Church's forms. That is persecution, I suppose, if anything can be so called. I shallnot indulge in any moral reflexions on persecuti...on. They may be taken for granted. I shall only notethe dry fact that within thirty years of the last enactmentthe whole purpose of the statutes was destroyedby the Act of Toleration. A good part of them hasbeen formally repealed, as may be seen by a glanceat their text as printed in the Revised Statutes. What remains? A singular ruin. The effect of thelaw has been turned upside down. It was intendedonly to restrain dissenters; dissenters are now theonly people to whom it does not apply. It was intendedonly to prevent unauthorized variations fromthe Prayer-book; it is effective now to preventauthorized variations alone.
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