Just recently, I've again come across the writings of Dr J. I. Packer, now in his 80s, who has been a pastor and academic. He was once a great hero of mine when I was an orthodox Calvinist d e cades ago. He was an Anglican but recently left the Canadian church because of its well-publicised slide into li beralism . Interestingly, although he classed himself as an evangelical he had a great l ove for The Book of Common Prayer ( BCP: 1662). (B eing an evangelical Anglican and having a love for the BCP seems rare to day. ) Packer was brought up on the BCP and I can understand his strong affection for its r h ythms and its implicit piety. (I was not nurture d in it but first e ncountered Anglicanism through An Australian Prayer Book (AAPA: 1978) .) Packer has made a study of the 1662 BCP and found that a sin-grace-faith pattern exists throughout its services. To check this out f urther, I would like to go back to the second Prayer Book (1552) of Edward VI's reign ...
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen --Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles