If anyone questions this judgment, let him toil through Neale's and Littledale's Translations of the Primitive Liturgies and see whether he can find six, nay, three, consecutive lines which he would be willing to see introduced into our own Communion Office.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
In the whole history of Liturgies there is no record of a wiser step.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
Perhaps "the personal equation" enters equally into the conclusions of those who assign a very late origin to the Liturgies, pushing them along as far as the sixth or seventh century.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington