The Prayer - Book Er ... .vlained. By the Rev. Percival Jackson. Part I.
(Cambridge 4'niversity Prose. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Jackson is successful in showing the harmonious construction of the ser- vices (his subject in this first part is the Daily Offices and the Litany). No one can read his little volume without acquiring an increased sense of the beauty, order, and fulness of meaning that the Anglican forma of worship possess. He has a thoughtful chapter on the Athanasian Creed, which he believes to be prior to 451 (when Eutyches was condemned). This kind of argument, however, may easily be pushed too far. " It could not be earlier than 416 because it plainly condemns Apollimariaus, who denied a human soul to Christ, and said that the Godhead was in place of a human soul." But surely the clause "As the reasonable soul," icc., might be perverted to favour this heresy. The damnatory clauses are lie htly passed over. "They say nothing of what allowance God makes for involuntary ignorance, diffi- cult perplexities, and other infirmities." And, indeed, this is the only thing that can be said.
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