Chiasmus for 1637

Unlike the venerable Roman Canon, in the Booke, the Commemorations and Intercessions are removed to the intercessory Prayers of the People, immediately following the Offertory. With these omissions in mind, only one single interpolation is required to bring back a fully chiastic form to the Scottish Prayer (although another, also noted, may be required to "punch up" the first oblation).

1. Initial praise: R. It is meet and right so to do. V. It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, holy Father, Almighty, everlasting God ...

2. Initial petition: Almighty God our heavenly Father, which of thy tender mercy didst give thy onely Sonne Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the Crosse for our redemption, who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sinnes of the whole world, and did institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue a perpetuall memory of that his precious death and sacrifice, untill his coming again: Heare us, O mercifull Father, we most humbly beseech thee,

3A. First (descending) epiclesis: and of thy almighty goodnesse vouchsafe so to blesse and sanctifie with thy word and holy Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine, that they may bee unto us the body and bloud of thy most dearly beloved Son;

3B. First formula of oblation: Therefore, O Lord, we pray: graciously accept these thy creatures, as Thou didst deign to accept the gifts of thy righteous child Abel, the sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith, and, with wondrous condescension, the offering of thy high-priest Melchizedek; so that wee receiving them according to thy Sonne our Saviour Jesus Christs holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of the same his most precious body and bloud:

4A. Words of Institution (Consecration): who in the night that he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat, this is my body, which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me. Likewise, after supper he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drinke yee all of this, for this is my bloud of the new testament, which is shed for you, and for many, for the remission of sins : do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me.

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4B. Anamnesis: Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, we thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before thy divine Majestie, with these thy holy gifts, the memoriall which thy Son hath willed us to make, having in remembrance his blessed passion, mightie resurrection, and glorious assension, rendring unto thee most heartie thankes for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.

3B. Second formula of oblation: And we entirely desire thy Fatherly goodnesse, mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, most humbly beseeching thee to grant, that by the merits and death of thy Sonne Jesus Christ, and through faith in his bloud, we (and all thy whole church) may obtain remission of our sinnes, and all other benefits of his passion. And here wee offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto thee, humbly beseeching thee, that whosoever shall be partakers of this holy communion, may worthily receive the most precious bodie and bloud of thy Son Jesus Christ, and be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction, and made one bodie with him, that he may dwell in them, and they in him.

3A. Second (ascending) epiclesis: And although wee be unworthie, through our manifold sinnes, to offer unto thee any sacrifice: Yet we beseche thee to accepte thys our bounden duetie and service, and commaunde these our prayers and supplicacions, by the Ministery of thy holy Angels, to be brought up into thy holy Tabernacle before the syght of thy dyvine majestie;

2. Final petition: not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offences,

1. Concluding praise (doxology): through Jesus Christ our Lord; by whom, and with whom, in the unitie of the holy Ghost, all honour and glory be unto thee, O Father almightie, world without end. Amen.

It thus remains fully Anglican -- and in accordance with my reading of the single Roman Canon -- that we offer the unconsecrated gifts to the Father, as well as "our selves, our souls and bodies."

Furthermore, the truly anti-Roman part is in the "Final petition": "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings" (XI).