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298 YORK.
corporal not being spread until after the creed : but
the English Uses agree in this with the French and
Spanish, where the elements are prepared and set on
before the Gloria in excelsis. " As we approach the
oblation and consecration," says Archdeacon Freeman,
" the differences become more striking and
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interesting. In the Roman Use the Bread and Cup
are offered separately, but in the English, as in the
East, and as in the French, the Irish, and the monastic
Uses, simultaneously. ... A beautiful custom
obtained in the York Use of the choir saying to
the celebrant, at this juncture, 'The Lord hear thee,'
&c., ' remember thy offering, and accept thy burnt
sacrifice ' : the other Uses and the Roman having a
similar prayer at the Tersandus, and at the words,
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'Accept these gifts.' ^ When the priest comes to the
consecration of the elements, the Use of York, in
common with the other English Uses, enjoins that the
bread and wine should be "lifted up," in the manner
of one offering a sacrifice, at the words. " He took
bread and gave thanks," &c. This appears to recognise
that the Act of consecration consists "in the
imitation of our Lord's action and words, such as we
gather them from Scripture, from tradition, or from
analogy,"— not in the mere repetition of words only.
The rubric of the Roman Use expressly says, " He
uttereth the words of consecration, Hoc est eniin
Corpus Meum." One only amongst the Uses of this
country, that of Bangor, as given by Maskell, has a
rubrical note to the like e{(ect,^Iltec sunt verba consecrationis.
' " Principles of Divine Service,'" ii. p. 419.