p from the Synagogue.

Forms assist the mind to take its due part in the worship which we
offer to the Almighty. Worship is offered with body, mind and spirit.
If one of these encroaches on the others, their share is in danger. If
the tongue and the knees and the hands are too much engaged in it, the
mind grows weary or idle. If the mind is too busily employed, the
spirit has a diminished share, or the body is indolent. It is
necessary to provide occupation for the mind, but not to occupy it in
following great mental efforts for which it is unprepared. If the mind
is unprepared, it no sooner reaches one point than it has to follow the
speaker to another; and thereby the spirit loses its power of speeding
the utterance to the throne of God.

f. Worship-Forms.

(See Table, p. 21. Cf. Chap. I, p. 3.)

We find that, in the Services, shares are distributed to the
worshippers in five different ways, which may be called Worship-forms.
The Table on p. 21 should be carefully studied. Hooker's description
of them (E. P. v. xxxix. 1) is a little difficult to make out; but it
will be found to verify our table. (See Appendix A, pp. 22, 23.)

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Walter Travers was Reader at the Temple Church in London, when (1585)
Richard Hooker was appointed to be Master of the Temple. Travers had
been a friend and favourite of Thomas Cartwright, a severe critic of
the Order and Discipline of the Church of England. Travers took up the
criticisms, and so attacked Hooker that the latter in self-defence
wrote his Books on _The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity_ (1592), wherein
he replies to Cartwright's and Travers' criticisms.

The Worship-forms have been in use for so long that it is scarcely
possible to discuss their origin. The traces of them in the Bible are
interesting:

1. Amen. 1 Cor. xiv. 16; Rev. xxii. 20.

2. Responsorial or Interjectional. S. Luke ii. 13, 14.

3. Anthem. Exodus xv. 21; Isaiah vi. 3.

4. Litany.

5. Preceded. Exodus xxiv. 7, xix. 7, 8, xx. 18-21.

The Prayer Book furnishes examples of Praise and Prayer in each Form,
excepting the Litany Form, which is used only for Prayer. But there is
no reason why that also should not be used for Praise: the 136th Psalm
will show how this might be done.

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THE FIVE KINDS OF WORSHIP FORMS

(See Hooker, _Eccl. Pol._ v. xxxix. 1.)

Examples-- Examples--
Prayer