Note 129 — THE PROLOGUE. (continued 2)

The book of ceremonies (compiled under the influence of the Bishops Gardiner and Tonstall, and in opposition to that of Cranmer, about the year 1540, and designed to retain in the church many operose and superstitious rites, by setting them off with the aids of a philosophical and subtle interpretation), describing in succession the different parts of the Canon of the Mass, proceeds thus, "Then saith the priest thrice, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, &c. advertising us of three effects of Christ’s passion; whereof the first is, deliverance from the misery of sin; the second is from pain of everlasting damnation; wherefore he saith twice Miserere nobis, that is to say, Have mercy on us; and the third effect is, giving of everlasting peace, consisting in the glorious fruition of God." Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials, Vol. i. p. 289. Records. See also Mirror of our Lady. fol. 189, and Becon’s Works. Vol. iii. fol. 49. A. D. 1564. W.