''The Sunday Service of the Methodists'' (''The Sunday Service of the Methodists; With Other Occasional Services'' being the full title), is the first Christian liturgical book given to the

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es by their founder,

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. It has its basis in the 1662 ''Book of Common Prayer''. Editions were produced for Methodists in both the

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and in North America. Wesley published the first edition in 1784 as ''The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America with Other Occasional Services''. ''The Sunday Service of the Methodists'' has immensely influenced later Methodist liturgical texts. The Order for Morning Prayer for the

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, for example, was adapted from ''The Sunday Service of the Methodists''. The more recent '' Book of Worship for Church and Home'' reprinted the original Morning Prayer office used in ''The Sunday Service of the Methodists''. Many of the liturgical rites, such as that of the

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, in "The Ritual" of '' The Discipline of The Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection'' have preserved various prayers published in ''The Sunday Service of the Methodists''.

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. Methodist texts

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