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 “ The names or titles affixed to the Liturgies are of little signification. Some of them, indeed, refer to the Apostles who introduced the form of Christian worship in the Churches where these Liturgies were used. But what is of the highest consequence is, that the Liturgies contain the common form and order of public worship observed in those Churches; and, consequently, that they contain a public profession of the Faith of all the Clergy and People attached to them, in the ages in which these Liturgies were in use.

“ The most sacred part of the form of divine worship, the Canon (called the Anaphora in the Oriental Liturgies,) during the first two or three centuries, was only committed to memory, and retained by the Bishops and Priests, as the Apostles' Creed was learnt and retained by the faithful.