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214 V. THE REFORMATION (A.D. 15201592).
The most remarkable point of contact with Luther s
Formula and the Nurnberg mass was the introduction of
the narrative of the institution of the Lord s Supper into
the preface before the Sanctus a novelty which Luther
himself altered in his Deudsche Messe of 1526. We may,
therefore, I think, date the composition of the first Swedish
mass in the year 1525 1526, after Olaus had received
Osiander s book from Nurnberg, but before he had seen
Luther s Deudsche Messe of the latter year. There is,
therefore, some reason to believe that the form first used at
the marriage of Olaus was that which continued in use at
Stockholm until it was printed in 1531. This, however, is
only a conjecture.
The reason for which Luther adopted this arrangement
clearly was in order that he might get rid of the prayers of
the offertory and the canon of the Roman mass, and
especially the element of sacrifice, which he viewed with
abhorrence, and yet give the narrative of the institution
a prominent place as part of the thanksgiving. None of
these German forms had a direct prayer of consecration,
although such a prayer had appeared in the first Protestant
form of service in the German language, that issued by
Kaspar Kantz of Nordlingen in I522.
27
The Lord s
Prayer was, no doubt, intended in some sort to supply its
place in the Nurnberg and Swedish forms.
As to other less important points, Olaus seems to have
tion by Professor Sehling). Luther s severe words about the
"
Canon missae
"
may be recalled : "Octavo sequitur tota ilia
abominatio cui servire coactum est quicquid in missa praecessit,
unde et offertorium vocatur. Et ab hinc omnia fere sonant ac
olent oblationem. . . . Proinde omnibus illis repudiatis quae
oblationem sonant, cum universo canone, retineamus quse pura
et sancta sunt.
"
Professor Martin considers the Nurnberg
form to be the one which Olaus most closely followed in laying
out the plan of the Swedish mass (I.e., p. 8).
27 "
Grant that this bread and the wine may become and be
for us thy dearest Son s our Lord Jesus Christ s true body and
sinless blood," leading up to the words of institution in the
form of a prayer : see Martin :
I.e., p. 8.
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