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	:"For Milton, the 'perfect Gift' of God lies in the unpremeditated devotional voice, the 'freedom of speech' thta each individual ought by right to possess. to worship according to the 'outward dictates of men' instead of the inward 'sanctifying spirit' means to prefer humanly authored texts to divine ordination -- to commit the act of idolatry." (37)		:"For Milton, the 'perfect Gift' of God lies in the unpremeditated devotional voice, the 'freedom of speech' thta each individual ought by right to possess. to worship according to the 'outward dictates of men' instead of the inward 'sanctifying spirit' means to prefer humanly authored texts to divine ordination -- to commit the act of idolatry." (37)

	:"No longer did the questions surrounding liturgical practice turn on the use of English versus Latin, or the worshipper's private versus public prayer during the church service -- these issues had been adequately addressed, if not entirely settled, by the time Elizabeth I ascended the throne. In their place came a new series of challenges to public devotion, challenges that arose from within Protestant, not Catholic circles, and focused attention on a feature of the English service whose efficacy Thomas Cranmer seems to have taken for granted: the minister's reliance upon reading aloud )as the crucial vehicle for edifying the congregation." (3		:"No longer did the questions surrounding liturgical practice turn on the use of English versus Latin, or the worshipper's private versus public prayer during the church service -- these issues had been adequately addressed, if not entirely settled, by the time Elizabeth I ascended the throne. In their place came a new series of challenges to public devotion, challenges that arose from within Protestant, not Catholic circles, and focused attention on a feature of the English service whose efficacy Thomas Cranmer seems to have taken for granted: the minister's reliance upon reading aloud )as the crucial vehicle for edifying the congregation." (37)

			Richard Hooker, ''Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie'' -- "most thorough and complex account of the establishment's practice that the church had yet to offer" (37)

	== Prayer and Poetry: Rhyme in the English Church ==		== Prayer and Poetry: Rhyme in the English Church ==

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	:"Cranmer's liturgical aim: to restructure corporate worship so that it is entirely compatible with as well as conducive to the practice of personal devotion." (35)		:"Cranmer's liturgical aim: to restructure corporate worship so that it is entirely compatible with as well as conducive to the practice of personal devotion." (35)

	== Reading Prayer: Spontaneity and Conformity ==		== Reading Prayer: Spontaneity and Conformity ==

			:"For Milton, the 'perfect Gift' of God lies in the unpremeditated devotional voice, the 'freedom of speech' thta each individual ought by right to possess. to worship according to the 'outward dictates of men' instead of the inward 'sanctifying spirit' means to prefer humanly authored texts to divine ordination -- to commit the act of idolatry." (37)

			:"No longer did the questions surrounding liturgical practice turn on the use of English versus Latin, or the worshipper's private versus public prayer during the church service -- these issues had been adequately addressed, if not entirely settled, by the time Elizabeth I ascended the throne. In their place came a new series of challenges to public devotion, challenges that arose from within Protestant, not Catholic circles, and focused attention on a feature of the English service whose efficacy Thomas Cranmer seems to have taken for granted: the minister's reliance upon reading aloud )as the crucial vehicle for edifying the congregation." (3

	== Prayer and Poetry: Rhyme in the English Church ==		== Prayer and Poetry: Rhyme in the English Church ==

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Common Prayer

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-:"Whereas Protestants sought to break down the auricular barriers between the clergy and the congregation, Catholics insisted that these barriers were actually conducive to a genuine devotional practice. for sixteenth-century Catholics, the challenge of public devotion was not to promote a shared and collective liturgical language, but instead to encourage the worshippers to perform their own private devotions during the priest's service." (14)
+:"Whereas Protestants sought to break down the auricular barriers between the clergy and the congregation, Catholics insisted that these barriers were actually conducive to a genuine devotional practice. For sixteenth-century Catholics, the challenge of public devotion was not to promote a shared and collective liturgical language, but instead to encourage the worshippers to perform their own private devotions during the priest's service." (14)
 :"This distinction between hearing and praying lies at the very heart of the Catholics' argument: the English-language service promotes the worshippers' ability to listen, while the Latin service promotes their ability to 'occupy themselves' in private worship." (15)
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Common Prayer

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	== Common Prayer ==		== Common Prayer ==

			:"Whereas Protestants sought to break down the auricular barriers between the clergy and the congregation, Catholics insisted that these barriers were actually conducive to a genuine devotional practice. for sixteenth-century Catholics, the challenge of public devotion was not to promote a shared and collective liturgical language, but instead to encourage the worshippers to perform their own private devotions during the priest's service." (14)

			:"This distinction between hearing and praying lies at the very heart of the Catholics' argument: the English-language service promotes the worshippers' ability to listen, while the Latin service promotes their ability to 'occupy themselves' in private worship." (15)

	== Reading Prayer: Spontaneity and Conformity ==		== Reading Prayer: Spontaneity and Conformity ==

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Introduction: The Performance of Prayer

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 Targoff, Ramie. ''Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
 Francis Bacon, the queen did not "make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts" -- this is "the dominant model for understanding the relationship between external practice and internal belief in the Elizabethan church" for most historians (2)
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 :"English emerges as a sacred tongue deemed worthy of communicating formal petitions to God. The particular properties of common prayer -- its emphasis upon premeditation rather than spontaneity; its insistence upon the interchangeability of first-person singular and plural pronouns; its preference for simultaneously eloquent and reiterable texts over complex and difficult models of language -- played an important role, I argue, in determining the poetic forms that seemed most effective for acts of personal as well as collective expression." (5-6)

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Targoff, Ramie. ''Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

== Introduction: The Performance of Prayer ==

Francis Bacon, the queen did not "make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts" -- this is "the dominant model for understanding the relationship between external practice and internal belief in the Elizabethan church" for most historians (2)

:"There were not absolute divisions between sincerity and theatricality, inwardness and outwardness within the early modern English church. Although established churchmen recognized the potential for externally convincing but internally empty acts of devotion, they tended to minimize the threat that such dissembling posed either to the dissemblers themselves or to the congregation of eye-witnesses." (4)

"habitual practice" -- "helps explain how the religious establishment could simultaneously seem uninterested in private belief and yet demonstrate repeatedly its desire to subsume private devotion within the public liturgy of the church. Indeed, what appears to be a simple request for an untaxing and potentially unmeaningful participation in a weekly service turns out to be a strategy to transform the worshippers soul." (4)

:"English emerges as a sacred tongue deemed worthy of communicating formal petitions to God. The particular properties of common prayer -- its emphasis upon premeditation rather than spontaneity; its insistence upon the interchangeability of first-person singular and plural pronouns; its preference for simultaneously eloquent and reiterable texts over complex and difficult models of language -- played an important role, I argue, in determining the poetic forms that seemed most effective for acts of personal as well as collective expression." (5-6)