406 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



By the advice principally of these two, the 

 King ordered the English Liturgy to be trans- 

 lated into high Dutch, which was done at his 

 University of Frankfort upon the Oder, where 

 the professors in general were friends to the 

 Church of England. This done, he ordered his 

 bishop. Dr. Ursinus, to write a letter in his 

 name to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to ac- 

 quaint him with what had been, and what was 

 intended to be done; and to ask his Grace's 

 advice about it. The scheme was, if the King's 

 intentions met with due reception and encou- 

 ragement from England, which it was presumed 

 could not fail, to have introduced the Liturgy 

 first into the King's own chapel, and the cathe- 

 dral church ; and to leave it free for the other 

 Churches to follow the example ; and the time 

 prefixed for this introduction was the first Sun- 

 day in Advent, 1706. It was indeed debated in 

 the King's Consistory (called so because a privy 

 counsellor always sits with, yet presides over 

 the Divines), whether the English Liturgy should 

 be used, or a new one composed in imitation of 

 it, several objecting, that they should seem to 

 acknowledge a dependance on the Church of 

 England, by wholly using her service ; upon 

 which some divines, who were not willing the 

 design should miscarry, drew up a formulary, 



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