...presented under a quotation from the Holy Communion service in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. "Here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, ourselves,...to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto Thee."3 As we saw in our previous chapter, Romans 12:1-2 is basic to the New Testament's understanding...

...future. And when early on Sunday mornings we hear the words 'Here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our souls and bodies to be a reasonable, holy and lively sacrifice unto thee', our hearts and minds are opened to the truth. The body is like a violin on which a master plays Bach...

...Psalms, in Remains, 576. 102 "And here wee offre and present unto thee (O Lorde) oure selfe, oure soules, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee." First and Second Prayer Books, 223. 103 Wyatt, Complete Poems, 209. 104 Luther's Works, vol. 12, 409,...

...thanksgiving: most humbly beseeching Thee to grant that by the merits and death of Thy Son Jesus Christ... we and all Thy whole church may obtain remission of...passion. And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, our self, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy and lively sacrifice unto Thee: humbly beseeching...

...most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, we and all thy whole church may...our sins, and all other benefits of his passion. And although we be unworthy, through our manifold sins, to offer unto thee any sacrifice, yet we beseech...

...thanksgiving, and a petition that the Father might accept the "sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving" and that "we and all thy whole Church may obtain remission...our sins, and all other benefits of his passion." The Scottish prayer continues with an oblation and concludes with a Trinitarian doxology and the Lord's...

...humbly beseeching Thee to grant that, by the merits and death of Thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in His blood, we, and all Thy whole Church,...Passion. And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto Thee; humbly...

...received, offers up itself zs a holy and living sacrifice. As the Book of Common Prayer (1549) puts it, And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves,...sacrifice unto thee; humbly beseeching thee, that whosoever shall be partakers of this holy communion, may worthily receive the most precious body and...

...Eucharist has a 'propitiatory dimension' (which certainly echoes Trent). Then, when, in 1 662, we pray that 'we and all thy whole church may obtain remission of our sins', we are, astonishingly, offering petition for the departed (who must still need remission of their sins?)....

...(BCP264), which asks God 'mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving' and offers 'our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee'. 15. blessed] only [altered to] blessed W. The early version reveals H.'s assumption that there is now...