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 HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON 
 PRAYER, 
 
 FROM MANUSCRIPT SOJXRCm, 
 [BISHOP SAKDEESON AND BISHOP WEEN,] 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 WILLIAM JACOBSON, D.D., 
 
 BisBOF OF Chester, 
 
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 LONDON: 
 JOHN MUEEAY, ALBEMAELE STKEET. 
 
 CHESTER: 
 PHILLIPSON & GOLDER, EASTGATE ROW. 
 
 1874. 
 
CHESTER: 
 PRINTED BY PHILLIPSON AND GOLDER, EASTGATE ROW. 
 
 

 BISHOP SANDERSON 
 
 AND 
 
 BISHOP WREN. 
 
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It is well known, from Walton's Life of Sanderson, that 
 under the exigencies of the times and in compliance with the 
 friendly advice of " a Parliament-man of power and note," he 
 thought it right "in the Public Service of God, and Offices 
 of the Church to vary somewhat from the strict rules of the 
 Kubrick."* 
 
 The General Confession in the Daily Service is given in its 
 altered form by Walton ; and in his Tract, entitled " The Case 
 of the Use of the Liturgy stated in the late times," Sanderson 
 has enumerated many particulars of his practice, f 
 
 By the kindness of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, I 
 am enabled to set forth the entire Service Book, so modified. 
 
 On the first flyleaf of the volume containing it, there is 
 written, 
 
 For Windsor College Library. 
 
 Bp. Sanderson's 
 
 Common Pray'" Book, 
 
 M: S: 
 
 With MS. Sermons and 
 
 the Singing Pfs ; § 
 
 * See the collected Edition of Bp. Sanderson's Works, vi. 312, for similar 
 instances. The last volume of Jeremy Taylor's Works, as edited by Heber, con- 
 tains a collection of Offices and Forms of Prayer " intended as a charitable min- 
 istry to them who are not permitted to use those which were appointed formerly." 
 
 t Sanderson's Works, v, 37, 57. 
 
 § i. e. T. Stemhold, J. Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others. 
 
 At London, printed by John Daye, dwelling over Aldersgate. 
 
 1578. 
 
vi. Bishop Sanderson, 
 
 See among y^ Bp's Nine Cases printed 
 
 The use of the Liturgy 
 
 stated in y^ late Times : 
 
 where this MS. is referr'd to.* 
 
 N.B. — The Liturgy beginneth after 
 
 y^ Sermon on Rom: 15. 5. 
 
 After y® Occasional Pray'" for y* Sick 
 
 follow other Sermons; 
 
 Then beginneth y^ Office of y* Communion, 
 
 &c., Then y^ singing Pfs. 
 
 Donavit Tho: Dawson 
 Vic. de Nov: Windsor. 
 
 On the second flyleaf, 
 
 These Sermons 
 
 are Bp. Sanderson's, 
 
 and so are 
 
 the several Offices following 
 
 all written with 
 
 His own Hand. 
 
 See, among his Cases printed, 
 
 that called, 'The Use of the 
 
 Liturgy, stated in the late Times.' 
 
 * Works V, 42. 
 
Bishop Sanderson, vii. 
 
 A blank leaf before the Exhortation exhibits the title. 
 (See page 1.) From the Exhortation to the Occasional Prayer 
 for Sick Persons are thirty-nine pages. The Office of the 
 Oommunion, &c., occupies thirty pages. 
 
 The MS. having been designed for personal use, Readers 
 must be prepared for the absence of all Rubrical Directions. 
 Sanderson, of course, continued to follow his own previous 
 habits. It is clear from " The case of the Liturgy,"* that his 
 practice had always been to use a Prayer before Sermon. 
 
 Among the noteworthy variations will be found the read- 
 ing, " by His own oblation of Himself," in the opening of 
 the Consecration Prayer, p. 26; and the non-appearance of 
 the express and strong recognition of our Saviour's Divinity, 
 in the second paragraph of the Gloria in Excelsis. 
 
 Sanderson, it seems, understood the words, " Do this in 
 remembrance of Me," in the popular sense, pp. 23, 24 ; not in 
 that which Wren saw reason to prefer, pp. 81, 82. 
 
 * Works V, 39, 41. 
 
viii. Bishop Wren. 
 
 Concerning Bishop Wren, who had not Walton for his 
 Biographer, it may be convenient that a few points should be 
 noted. ' 
 
 He was brought up, from early youth, under Bishop 
 Andrewes, who made him his Chaplain. 
 
 In 1621, acting in the same capacity to Prince Charles, he 
 accompanied him to Spain; and, during his stay in that 
 country, " could never be induced to go within the Jesuits' 
 "gates, though all the English else did not stick to visit 
 " them." 
 
 1625 he was elected Master of his College, Peterhouse, in 
 Cambridge. 
 
 1628 he was appointed Dean of Windsor. 
 
 1j635, March 8, he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford. 
 And on December 5, of that year, he was confirmed as Bishop 
 of Norwich. 
 
 1638, April 24, he was confirmed Bishop of Ely. 
 
 1640, December 19, the day after the impeachment of Arch- 
 bishop Laud, he was accused by Hampden, of setting up 
 idolatry and superstition in divers places, and acting some 
 things of that nature in his own person. He was charged 
 with having, after a Popish and idolatrous manner, stood and 
 ofiiciated at the West side of the Holy Table, with his back to 
 the people. He had insisted on Chancel Steps, on the Holy 
 Table being placed Altarwise, with a Rail in front of it, and 
 
Bishop Wren, ix. 
 
 on pews being altered, so that the people should look to the 
 East. He had enjoined preaching in the Surplice, and forbidden 
 Sermons in the afternoon, and the use of any Prayer before 
 the Sermon, as on p. 75, from a desire to maintain and pro- 
 mote Catechising, and to repress extempore Prayer. 
 
 December 23, he gave, under an Order of the House of 
 Lords, £10,000 security that he would abide the judgement 
 of Parliament. 
 
 1641, July, he was impeached in 25 Articles, which charged 
 him with being Popishly affected, and introducing arbitrary 
 power to the hazard of the estates and lives of many. See 
 
 It ought to have been stated on page viii, that 
 Bishop Wren, when elected Master of Peterhouse, had 
 been for twenty years a Fellow of Pembroke College, 
 and, on page x, that it was in the Chapel of the 
 latter that he was buried. 
 
 dming pleasure ; and upon a Report from the Council of State, 
 the House of Commons, March 14, 1648, voted that he should 
 not be tried for his life, but kept in prison till some further 
 Order of the House was made concerning him. His imprison- 
 ment was very severe. His Estates having been taken away, 
 he could not allow his children bread, much less supply 
 the expenses of their University Education. On August 14, 
 1647, he described himself as " a five years' Anchorite de- 
 " prived of all books and notes, and rusty for want of 
 '' conference and use." 
 
viii. Bishop Wren. 
 
 Concerning Bishop Wren, who had not Walton for his 
 Biographer, it may be convenient that a few points should be 
 noted. ' 
 
 T^« was brought up, from early youth, under Bishop 
 
 1j635, Marcn o, n^ ,.^. 
 And on December 5, of that year, he was confirmed as jjimiv/|^ 
 of Norwich. 
 
 1638, April 24, he was confirmed Bishop of Ely. 
 
 1640, December 19, the day after the impeachment of Arch- 
 bishop Laud, he was accused by Hampden, of setting up 
 idolatry and superstition in divers places, and acting some 
 things of that nature in his own person. He was charged 
 with having, after a Popish and idolatrous manner, stood and 
 ofiiciated at the West side of the Holy Table, with his back to 
 the people. He had insisted on Chancel Steps, on the Holy 
 Table being placed Altarwise, with a Rail in front of it, and 
 
Bishop Wren. ix. 
 
 on pews being altered, so that the people should look to the 
 East. He had enjoined preaching in the Surplice, and forbidden 
 Sermons in the afternoon, and the use of any Prayer before 
 the Sermon, as on p. 75, from a desire to maintain and pro- 
 mote Catechising, and to repress extempore Prayer. 
 
 December 23, he gave, under an Order of the House of 
 Lords, £10,000 security that he would abide the judgement 
 of Parliament. 
 
 1641, July, he was impeached in 25 Articles, which charged 
 him with being Popishly affected, and introducing arbitrary 
 power to the hazard of the estates and lives of many. See 
 Nalson's Collections, ii, 398. The House of Commons voted 
 him unworthy and unfit to hold or exercise any office or dignity 
 in the Church or Commonwealth, and desired the Lords to 
 imite with them in petitioning the King to remove Bishop 
 Wren from his person and service. 
 
 According to the account given in the Parentalia, the 
 draft of Bishop Wren's Defence, having been submitted to a 
 legal friend for correction on some technical points, was 
 deemed to be full of very important matters, and was treacher- 
 ously given up to the Prosecutors. He was then imprisoned 
 during pleasure ; and upon a Keport from the Council of State, 
 the House of Commons, March 14, 1648, voted that he should 
 not be tried for his life, but kept in prison till some further 
 Order of the House was made concerning him. His imprison- 
 ment was very severe. His Estates having been taken away, 
 he could not allow his children bread, much less supply 
 the expenses of their University Education. On August 14, 
 1647, he described himself as " a five years' Anchorite de- 
 ^' prived of all books and notes, and rusty for want of 
 ^' conference and use." 
 
X. Bishop Wren. 
 
 The Order for his discharge was not made till March 15, 
 1660. 
 
 In the opening of his second Book, Clarendon characterized 
 him as " a man of severe, sour nature, but veiy learned, and 
 "particularly versed in the old Liturgies of the Greek and 
 " Latin Churches." In the following ' Remarks ' there are not 
 a few indications of willingness to consider and make allow- 
 ance for popular feeling and prejudice. And T. Scott, Rector 
 of St. Clements', Ipswich, with whom Wren had much corres- 
 pondence on Church Observances, having, April 17, 1637, 
 thanked him for a gracious and favourable letter, added, ' Your 
 ' Lordship's sweet hand upon me hath so mollified my mind, 
 ' yea, melted my heart, that I have observed sundry of your 
 ^ Lordship's directions. Some others there are which it is my 
 ' great grief of heart that I have not so much light as readily 
 ^and cheerfully to obey in what your Lordship enjoins me.' 
 Clarendon himself must have had reason afterwards for 
 esteeming Wren very highly. For, from letters in Kennet's 
 Register, it appears that in 1660 Clarendon thought the 
 judgement and advice of the Bishop of Ely, on points 
 connected with the continuing of the succession of Bishops, 
 was much to be preferred before any man's ; that Clarendon 
 had little hope of the business of the Church but by his being 
 at liberty ; and that it rested with him to suggest a name for 
 the See of Carlisle, pp. 21, 27, 55. 
 
 His name does not appear in the Royal Warrant for the 
 Conference at the Savoy. But he was one of eight appointed, 
 November 21, 1661, as a Committee of the Upper House of 
 Convocation, for the revision of the Book of Common Prayer. 
 
 Bishop Wren died at Ely House, April 24, 1667, at the 
 age of 81. And at his bmial in the Chapel of his College, 
 Bishop Pearson, at that time Master of Trinity, pronounced a 
 
Bishop Wren. xi. 
 
 Funeral Oration, which may be seen in Churton's Collection of 
 Pearson's Minor Theological Works, ii, 79. 
 
 He published a Sermon on Prov. xxiv, 21, preached before 
 the King, on Sunday, Feb. 17, 1626. 
 
 On Abandoning of the Scots' Covenant; a brief Theo- 
 logical Treatise, written, first, upon sundry private occasions, 
 in prison, by Matthew, Lord Bishop of Ely, after the manner 
 of a Sermon; but now thought fit to be published by him for 
 the present use of his Diocese, the readlyer to prepare all 
 therein (Divines and others) for the due abrenunciation of 
 the said Covenant, which they are out of hand to make by 
 virtue of the Act of Uniformity. Ps. xliv, 18. 4*°. 1661. 
 
 His Increpatio Bar-Jesu; sive Polemicae Adsertiones loco- 
 rum aliquot S. Scripturae ah imposturis perversionum in Gate- 
 chesi Racoviana^ Lond. 1660, was incorporated in the Critici 
 Sacri^ as originally published in this country. 
 
 His collections of the Statutes and Ordinances of the Order 
 of the Garter, highly commended by Ashmole, were published 
 by Anstis, 1720. 
 
 MS. Notes of his were incorporated by Richardson in his 
 edition of Godwin De Praesulibus Angliae. 
 
 These ' Remarks ' are printed from a MS. Volume given ta 
 me in 1859, by my dear old friend, Walter Ker Hamilton, 
 Bishop of Salisbury, who was not able to tell me more of its 
 history than that it came into his father's hands through Dr. 
 Richard Terrick, Bishop of London 1764—1777. 
 
 They stand first in the Volume, and are followed by ^Avis 
 demande a un Theologien par dela la Mer sur les Articles 
 de la Comprehension,' and that, again, by an English Transla- 
 tion, ' Of the agreement of the two Parties in the Essentials 
 
xii. Bishop Wren. 
 
 of Doctrine, and some grievances of the Presbyterians upon 
 this head.' A later hand has written on the Title Page of the 
 Translation, * I know not who this Divine was ; but I take 
 notice that, in p. 24, he speaks of a Treatise of his. Of the 
 diversity of Discipline, and the Episcopacy of England, 
 printed in 1624.' 
 
 Then, Comprehensionis Anglicanae Momentum^ Obices^ ad 
 earn Motiva. 
 
 And an Essay on the Liturgy, for the rendering it more 
 plain and acceptable to many people; on which has been 
 written "by Dr. Tillotson, as I believe." 
 
 On the first page of the Volume has been written, ' I think 
 Hhese were Bishop Wren's Kemarks, but am not certain.' 
 Collation with Letters of Wren in the Tanner Collection in 
 the Bodleian, and with a large amount of his Handwriting in 
 the Library of Peterhouse leaves no doubt whatever of this. 
 
 The paucity of anything like Ceremonial Directions in 
 these ' Remarks ' may, in the present day, be regarded with 
 surprise, if not disappointment. What is said concerning 
 Chancels, p. 55, is noteworthy. And the remark on the 
 " Ornaments' Kubrick " can hardly be read without regret 
 that the prayer suggested was not made and granted. 
 Standing at "the North of the Table" is directed p. 74, 
 and recognized pp. 75 and 83. The withdrawal of Non- 
 Communicants had become the prevalent practice, p. 78. 
 
 Wren had not felt the lack of a Service for the Sixth 
 Sunday after the Epiphany, or of a Collect for Easter Eve, 
 or of a General Thanksgiving, p. 58, in the defence of the 
 absence of which last some have ventured to think that even 
 Hooker's admirable judgement faultered. 
 
BISHOP SANDERSON'S LITURGY 
 
 IN THE TIMES OF 
 
 REBELLION AND USURPATION, 
 
 WRITTEN WITH HIS OWN HAND. 
 
 SEE HIS CASE PRINTED, CALLED " THE USE OF THE 
 
Exhortations. 
 
 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there 
 is no truth in us. But if we confess our sins, God is faithful 
 and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all 
 unrighteousness. 
 
 Wherefore I beseech you, dearly beloved Brethren, let us 
 not dissemble nor cloak our sins before the face of Almighty 
 God, our Heavenly Father, but confess them with lowly, 
 penitent, and obedient hearts ; 
 
 That, having obtained forgiveness of the same by His 
 infinite goodness and mercy, our services at this present may 
 please Him, and that at the last we may con;ie to His eternal 
 joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 II. 
 
 Dearly beloved Brethren, we are here assembled and met 
 together in the fear of God ; to praise His Holy Name, to 
 hear His Holy AVord, and to call upon Him for all things 
 necessary both for our souls and bodies. 
 
 Now forasmuch as we cannot expect that God should bless 
 our meeting, or accept any of our services at this or any other 
 time, unless we confess our sins, and forsake them ; 
 
 Therefore let us, I pray and beseech you, as many as be 
 here present, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, make 
 our humble confession unto Almighty God before the throne 
 of the heavenly grace, meekly kneeling upon our knees. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 
 Confession. 
 
 Almighty God, and most Merciful Father, we, Thine un- 
 worthy servants, do with shame and sorrow confess that we 
 have all our life long gone astray out of Thy ways like lost 
 sheep. And that by following too much the vain devices and 
 desires of our own hearts, we have grievously offended against 
 Thy holy Laws, both in thought, word, and deed. 
 
 We have left undone * those good duties, which we might 
 and ought to have performed, f And we have done :{ those 
 evils, when we might have avoided them, which we ought not 
 to have done. § 
 
 We acknowledge, Lord, that there is no health at all in 
 us, nor help in any creature || to relieve us. But all our hope 
 is in Thy mercy, whose justice we have by our sins so far 
 provoked. 
 
 Have mercy upon us, therefore, Lord, have mercy upon 
 us, miserable offenders. Spare us, good Lord, which confess 
 our faidts, that we perish not. But according to Thy gracious 
 promises declared unto mankind in If Jesus Christ om* Lord, 
 restore us upon our true repentance into Thy grace and favor. 
 
 And grant, most merciful Father, for His sake, that we 
 may henceforth study to serve and please Thee, by leading a 
 
 * Left undone. Originally, "many times neglected." 
 
 t Performed. After this, these words in the original draft, "both to Thee, 
 and to our neighbours, when we had opportunity to have done them," have had 
 the pen drawn through them. 
 
 X Done. Originally written, "many times committed." 
 
 \ To have done. Originally this followed here : " Our very best actions, (as 
 they proceed from us,) are polluted ; and all the thoughts and imaginations of our 
 hearts have been only evil continually. Inscmuch as if Thou shouldest be extreme 
 to mark all our misdoings, we were not able to abide it, but must perish ever- 
 lastingly." 
 
 II Creature. Originally, " without us, to relieve us in this most wretched 
 condition." 
 
 H In. Originally, "in the GosiJol of Thy Sou" &c. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 5 
 
 godly, righteous, and sober life : to the glory of Thy great 
 Name, and the eternal comfort of om* own souls, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord, &c. 
 
 The Lord's Prayer, &c., after the Confession. 
 
 In whose Name we further call upon Thee, saying. 
 Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. 
 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in 
 heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us 
 our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. 
 And lead us not into temptation ; But deliver us from evil : 
 For Thine is &c. 
 
 0, Lord, open Thou our lips. 
 
 And our mouth shall show &c. 
 God, make speed to save us. 
 
 Lord, make haste to help us. 
 Glory be to the Father, &c. 
 
 The Psalms for the Day. 
 
 A Lesson out of the Old Testament. 
 
 I. A Psalm sung. 
 
 IL Psalm viii. Lord our Governor, &c. 
 
 IIL Psalm xcviii. sing unto the Lord a new &c. - 
 
 IV. Psalm xcv. come, let us sing, &c. 
 
 V. Psalm c. be joyful unto the Lord, all &c. 
 
 Hymns and Thanksgivings. 
 
 YI. give thanks unto the God of heaven, for His mercy 
 endui-eth for ever. 
 
6 Bishop Sanderson. 
 
 Let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation, and 
 shew ourselves glad in Him with psalms of thanksgiving. 
 
 For He is the Lord our God : His judgments are in all the 
 world. 
 
 praise the Lord, for the Lord is gracious : sing praises 
 unto His Name, for it is lovely. 
 
 praise the Lord with me : and let us magnify His Name 
 together. 
 
 most glorious Lord God, for whatsoever we are, or have, 
 or know, or desire as we ought, for Thy mercies every day 
 wonderfully renewed upon us in our daily preservation ; 
 
 For bringing us in safety unto this present hour, and 
 providing us of so many outward comforts all the while, 
 amidst the manifold casualties, encumbrances, and temptations 
 of this evil world ; 
 
 But especially for sending Thine Only Begotten Son out of 
 Thine *own bosom to take our nature and om- sins upon Him, 
 and to undertake the great work of our reconciliation and 
 redemption ; 
 
 And for all other those spiritual blessings in heavenly 
 things which Thou hast revealed unto Thy Church in Tliy 
 Holy Word, and communicated the same to us in some 
 measm-e by Thy Holy Spirit ; 
 
 For these and for all other those innumerable mercies and 
 favours wherein Thou hast abounded towards us, both in 
 spiritual and temporal things, 
 
 We will magnify Thee, Lord, day by day, and we will 
 worship Thy Name ever world without end. 
 
 With Cherubins and Seraphins, and all the glorious host 
 of heaven, praising Thee, and saying. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord 
 God of Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full of the majesty of 
 Thy glory. 
 
 * Out of Thine own bosom. Originally, instead of this, "into the world." 
 
Bishop Sanderson, 7 
 
 To Thee, Father of an infinite majesty, 
 To Thee, Christ, the everlasting Son of the Father, 
 To Thee, Holy GtHOST, the Comforter, 
 Be rendered by us and all faithful people, all glory, honour, 
 praise, power, and dominion, both now and for ever. Amen. 
 
 THE CREED. 
 
 I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker &c. : 
 
 And in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, 
 
 Which was conceived by the Holy Ghost, 
 
 Born of the Virgin Mary, 
 
 Suffered under Pontius Pilate, 
 
 Was crucified, dead, and buried, 
 
 He descended into hell ; 
 
 The third day He rose again from the dead, 
 
 He ascended into heaven, 
 
 And there He sitteth at the right hand of God the Father 
 Almighty. 
 
 From thence He shall come to judge both the quick and 
 the dead. 
 
 I believe in the Holy Ghost ; 
 
 The holy Catholic Church ; 
 
 The Communion of Saints ; 
 
 The Forgiveness of sins ; 
 
 The Resurrection of the body, 
 
 And the life everlasting. Amen. 
 
 Prayers. 
 
 I. For the Church. 
 I. 
 Almighty and Everlasting God, who knowest how unworthy 
 we are to ask anything for ourselves, and yet hast commanded 
 us to pray for others also ; 
 
8 Bisliop Sanderson. 
 
 We humbly beseech Thee, that it woukl please Thee to have 
 mercy upon all men : yea, even om- very enemies, persecutors, 
 and slanderers ; to forgive their wrongs to us, and to tm*n their 
 hearts to Thee. 
 
 But principally we commend unto Thy fatherly protection 
 the whole estate of Christ's holy Catholic Church militant here 
 on earth. 
 
 Enlarge the bounds thereof daily more and more, by calling 
 into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived. 
 
 And purge it daily more and more, by rooting out every 
 plant which is not of Thine own planting : all atheism, sacrilege, 
 scandals, sects, and heresies, and whatsoever is not according to 
 Christian Truth, Godliness, and Charity. 
 
 That all they that do confess Thy holy Name, may agree in 
 the truth of Thy holy Word, and live in unity and godly love. 
 
 Grive grace, heavenly Father, to all Bishops and Ministers 
 of Thy Word and Sacraments ; that they may both by their life 
 and doctrine set forth Thy true and lively Word, and rightly 
 and duly administer Thy holy Sacraments. 
 
 We beseech Thee also to save and defend all Christian 
 Kings, Princes, and Governors. Maintain them in their just 
 rights ; strengthen them that they may vanquish and overcome 
 all their enemies ; endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts ; 
 and so replenish them with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, that 
 they may evermore study the advancement of Thy honour and 
 glory, and the welfare of the people committed to their charge. 
 
 And grant to all their subjects, from the highest to the 
 lowest, that they may * lead quiet and peaceable lives in all 
 godliness and honesty ; keep themselves within the bounds of 
 their several vocations ; and bend their utmost endeavours to 
 perform the duties that belong unto them therein with all 
 diligence, faithfulness, and godly wisdom. 
 
 * That they may. Originally, " that living obediently under them they may " 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 9 
 
 And we most humbly beseech Thee of Thy goodness, Lord, 
 to comfort and succour all those that in this transitory life be 
 in any trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or other adversity, in 
 any kind or degree whatsoever. Sanctify Thy corrections unto 
 them in the mean time, that they profit thereby; and in 
 the end send them such deliverances as may serve best to Thy 
 glory, and their good. Grant this, Father, for Thy dear 
 Son's sake, Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. 
 Amen. 
 
 FOR THE MORNING. 
 
 Heavenly Father, Almighty and Everlasting God, who 
 hast preserved us all our life long, and brought us in safety 
 unto the beginning, and thus far onward, of this present day, 
 receive us, we humbly beseech Thee, the residue of this day 
 and the remainder of our whole lives henceforward, into Thy 
 gracious protection. Defend us in the same by Thy mighty 
 power, and so guide us with Thy grace, that we fall not into 
 any sin, nor run into any kind of danger ; but that all our 
 ways being ordered by Thy providence and governance, we may 
 evermore do those things that shall be righteous and pleasing 
 in Thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Prayers or Collects. 
 
 II. For time of Public Calamities. 
 I. 
 Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to 
 whose justice it belongeth to punish sinners, but yet art ever 
 merciful to them that truly repent; we humbly beseech Thee 
 to look with the eyes of pity and compassion upon the miseries 
 and distresses of us, the sinful people of this land; upon whom 
 
10 Bishop Sanderson. 
 
 Thou hast in Thy just displeasure brought these heavy calami- 
 ties, under which we have long groaned. 
 
 Neither is Thy wrath yet turned from us, after the effusion 
 of so much Christian blood; but the rod of Thine anger 
 abideth upon us, and Thy hand is stretched out, still. 
 
 We confess, Lord, that we are a nation not worthy to be 
 beloved, but that rather on the contrary we have most worthily 
 deserved at Thy hands all the evils that are come upon us. 
 
 We have sinned with our fathers : we have done amiss, and 
 dealt wickedly. 
 
 We must acknowledge it as an act of admirable patience, 
 that Thou hast not yet quite cut us off from being Thy people, 
 by removing our candlestick, and taking Thy Gospel from us : 
 yea, that Thou hast not utterly destroyed us from off the face 
 of the earth. 
 
 But after so many unworthy provocations, when our sins 
 had long since gone up into^ heaven, and there cried aloud for 
 vengeance against us. Thou hast punished us far less than our 
 sins have deserved; giving us yet space for repentance, and 
 therewithal hopes, that Thou wilt yet be entreated to withdraw 
 Thy heavy hand from us; when we shall be so far humbled 
 thereunder, as to be grieved for our sins, and to forsake them. 
 
 Give us grace therefore, we humbly beseech Thee, so to do. 
 Smite oiu* hard and stony hearts ; that they may even melt 
 within us at the blasting of the breath of Thy displeasure, and 
 fall in pieces at Thy rebukes. 
 
 Graciously look upon our afflictions, and mercifully forgive 
 the sins of Thy people. 
 
 Turn Thyself, Lord, from Thy wrathful indignation, and 
 let Thine anger cease from us. 
 
 Remember not our offences, nor the offences of our fore- 
 fathers ; neither take Thou vengeance of our sins. But spare 
 us, good Lord, for Tliine own Name's sake. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 11 
 
 And in Thy good appointed time (when it shall please Thee 
 to have made ns fit for so great a mercy,) establish peace 
 within our borders, and righteousness within our gates ; and 
 restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings, and 
 Truth and Order into our Congregations. 
 
 That so we and our posterity may rejoice in Thy salvation, 
 and make our boast of Thy holy Name, and sing of Thy 
 righteousness and faithfulness from generation to generation. 
 Amen. 
 
 II. 
 
 Almighty God, just in Thy wrath against sinners, but yet 
 most ready to shew mercy to such as by true repentance turn 
 unto Thee, 
 
 We most humbly beseech Thee to look with the eyes of pity 
 and compassion upon the manifold distractions and divisions 
 that are at this day in the whole Christian world ; and particu- 
 larly upon the miseries and distresses which we, the sinful 
 people of this land, deservedly lie under, by reason of our 
 manifold provocations and rebellions against Thee. Especially 
 for our wretched unthankfulness for, and unprofitableness un- 
 der, those inestimable blessings of Truth and Peace, which by 
 Thy great goodness we had so long and in so gracious a 
 measure enjoyed. And that since Thy hand hath gone out 
 against us, we have not made that wholesome use of Thy rod, 
 by forsaking our sins and amending our lives as we ought to 
 have done. 
 
 Yet we beseech Thee, Lord, not to remember our oifences, 
 neither to take vengeance of our sins, according to om- deserv- 
 ings ; but to deal with us according to Thine own goodness and 
 mercy. * Work in us true contrition and hearty sorrow for our 
 
 * and mercy. After this, these words in the original draft, " Graciously look 
 upon our afflictions, and mercifully forgive the sins of Thy people," have had the 
 pen drawn through them. 
 
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 past sins; and give us grace, that we set our hearts with 
 steadfast purpose henceforth to serve and please Thee, by 
 walking in Thy faith and fear, and making conscience of all 
 those holy duties, which we all owe to Thee, or any of us to 
 one another, for Thy sake. 
 
 And in Thy good appointed time, (when it shall please 
 Thee to have made us fit for so great a mercy,) establish peace 
 within our borders, and righteousness within our gates ; and 
 restore the voice of joy into our dwellings, and Truth and 
 Order into our Congregations. 
 
 That so we and our posterity may rejoice in Thy salvation, 
 and make our boast of Thy Holy Name, and sing of Thy 
 righteousness, mercy, and faithfulness from generation to 
 generation. Amen. 
 
 Daily Collects. 
 
 I. For Deliverance. 
 I. 
 
 God, Merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of 
 a contrite heart, nor the desires of such as be sorrowful, 
 
 We humbly beseech Thee mercifully to look upon our infir- 
 mities ; and, for the glory of Thy Name's sake, turn from us all 
 those evils that, for our sins, we have most justly deserved. 
 
 Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts ; and graciously 
 hear us, that those evils which the subtlety or malice of the 
 devil or man intendeth against us may be brought to nought ; 
 
 That we, Thy servants, in all our troubles and adversities, 
 putting our whole trust and confidence in Thy mercy, may be 
 delivered out of the hands of our enemies, and evermore serve 
 Thee in holiness and pureness of living, to Thy honour and 
 glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ 
 our Lord. Amen. 
 
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 Or this. 
 II. 
 
 Almighty and Everlasting God, who dost govern all things 
 both in heaven and earth, we beseech Thee favourably to hear 
 the prayers of Thy people, whensoever we call upon Thee. 
 
 Mercifully look upon our infirmities ; and in all our dangers 
 and necessities, stretch out Thy right hand to help and defend 
 us. And grant that we, who by Thy justice have deserved to 
 be severely punished for our offences, may yet, by Thy mercy, 
 be graciously delivered out of the hands of all our enemies, 
 both ghostly and bodily, for the glory of Thy holy Name; 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 III. Or 
 
 {Left blank in the MS.'\ 
 
 A Prayer 
 
 In time of Drought. 
 
 God, Heavenly Father, whose care reacheth even to the 
 meanest of Thy creatures, giving fodder unto the cattle, and 
 feeding the very young ravens by Thy Providence, and [who] 
 hast in Thy Gospel promised to all them that seek Thy 
 kingdom all things necessary for their bodily sustenance ; 
 
 We Thy poor servants humbly beseech Thee, that although 
 we for ourselves have worthily deserved to be deprived of the 
 fruits of the earth by the long continuance of the present 
 drought, that yet it would please Thee first throughly to water 
 our hearts with the dew of Thy heavenly grace, and then, 
 according to our necessities from time to time, to refresh the 
 
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 earth with such moderate rain and showers, that we may 
 receive the kindly fruits thereof in due season. 
 
 Crown the year, Lord, with Thy goodness, and let Thy 
 clouds drop fatness. Open Thy hand upon us, and fill us with 
 such a measure of plenteousness as to Thy heavenly wisdom 
 shall seem best, that out of the fulness of a thankful heart, 
 our mouths may be opened to sing praises unto Thee for Thy 
 great and undeserved mercies vouchsafed unto us in Thy dear 
 Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 For Fair Weather, 
 
 We Thy poor servants do most humbly beseech Thee, that 
 although we for our great unthankfulness to Thee for all Thy 
 benefits, our former abuse of Thy good creatures, and other our 
 manifold sins and iniquities, have worthily deserved to be 
 deprived of the remainder of the fruits of the earth, by the 
 long continuance of the late sad and unseasonable weather, 
 that yet it would please Thee, in the first place, to give us true 
 repentance for our sins, and then, upon our repentance, to send 
 us such comfortable and kindly weather whereby we may 
 receive the fruits of the earth in due season ; and learn, both 
 by this punishment to amend our lives, and for Thy undeserved 
 mercies to give Thee praise and glory, through Jesus Christ. 
 
 IL Collects. 
 
 For Grace. 
 
 I. 
 
 Lighten, we beseech Thee, Lord, the darkness of our 
 hearts and understandings. And though we be tied and 
 bound by the chains of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of Tliy 
 great mercy loose us ; 
 
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 That we may perceive and know the things that we ought 
 to do, and may also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil 
 the same, through Jesus Cheist our Lord. Amen. 
 
 II. 
 
 God, the strength of all them that put their trust in 
 Thee, we beseech Thee mercifully to accept our prayers, when- 
 soever we call upon Thee. 
 
 And because the weakness of our corrupt natm-e is such 
 that we are not able, as of ourselves, to think a good thought, 
 much less to do any good work, without Thee ; grant us, we 
 pray Thee, the help of Thy grace, that by keeping Thy holy 
 commandments we may please Thee both in will and deed, and 
 be made partakers of Thy gracious promises, through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 III. 
 
 Almighty and Merciful God, of whose only gift it is that 
 Tliy faithful people do unto Thee true and acceptable service ; 
 we pray Thee to prevent us with Thy good grace, and to follow 
 us with Thy good blessing, in all our ways ; that being continu- 
 ally given to good works, and running to Thy heavenly promises 
 by true repentance and a lively faith, we may finally, by Tliy 
 mercy, attain the same, through the merits of our Lord and 
 Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, to whose sight all 
 hearts are open and manifest, and from whose eyes no secret 
 things are hid, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts, we humbly 
 beseech Thee, by the operation of Tliy Holy Spirit, and sanctify 
 us throughout in our whole souls and bodies, that we may 
 perfectly love Thee with our hearts, and glorify Thy holy Name 
 
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 in our lives and conversations ; and finally, by Thy mercy, obtain 
 everlasting life, through Jesus Chkist our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Prayer for Fair Weather. 
 
 Almighty God, who art able, when it pleaseth Thee, to 
 turn a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them 
 that dwell therein, and didst once, for the sin of man, bring a 
 flood upon the ungodly world to drown it, but yet didst after- 
 wards, of Thy great mercy, promise never to destroy it so 
 again, we humbly beseech Thee, that although we for our 
 unfruitfulness in Thy service have worthily deserved that the 
 fruits which, by Thy goodness, the earth hath brought forth 
 plenteously, should be destroyed and made unserviceable to us 
 by this Thy plague of immoderate rain and waters ; yet upon 
 our true repentance Thou wouldest send us such a blessed 
 change of weather, whereby we may reap the fruits of the 
 earth in their kindly seasons ; and learn both by this Thy just 
 punishment to amend our sinful lives, and for Thy undeserved 
 mercy to give Thee praise and glory, through Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
 living for the same. 
 
 Almighty God, who hast abundantly manifested Thy 
 power over the creatures, and given us a taste of Thy dis- 
 pleasure against an unworthy and sinful nation by the long 
 continuance of Thy late plague of unseasonable weather ; but 
 hast been pleased of late so far to hear the prayers and to take 
 compassion on the distresses of Thy poor servants, as to give 
 us hopes of a more kindly season, for the gathering in of the 
 remainder of the fruits of the earth ; we desire to bless Tliy 
 holy Name for this Thy great goodness towards us. And we 
 most humbly beseech Thee to grant, that duly considering Thy 
 power both in punishing and comforting us after Thine own 
 
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 pleasure, we may learn both to be bumbled under Tliy fatherly 
 corrections unto unfeigned repentance and amendment of life, 
 and to express the true thankfulness of om' hearts for Thine 
 undeserved mercies by our cheerful and constant obedience to 
 Thy most holy Commandments ; through Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
 Collects Adventual. 
 
 Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, whose only begotten 
 Son Jesus Christ, laying aside His glory, came down from 
 heaven to visit us, miserable sinners, in great humility, and took 
 upon Him the form of a servant, to redeem us who lay in dark- 
 ness and in the shadow of death from the bondage of sin and 
 Satan ; Grive us grace, we humbly beseech Thee, so to follow the 
 example of His humility here upon earth, that when He shall 
 come again in His glorious majesty to judge both the quick 
 and the dead, we may by Tliy mercy be made partakers of His- 
 eternal glory in the kingdom of heaven; through Him who 
 liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one 
 God, world without end. Amen. 
 
 II. 
 
 Almighty God, which hast given us Thine only begotten Son 
 Jesus Christ to undergo the burden of our sins, to take upon 
 Him our nature and the infirmities thereof, yet without sin, 
 and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin ; Grant that we 
 being regenerate, and made Thy children by adoption and 
 grace, may daily be renewed by Thy Holy Spirit, through the 
 same our Lord Jesus Christ, who with Thee and the same 
 Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth one God, ever world without 
 end. Amen. 
 
 D 
 
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 III. 
 
 Eternal and Most Glorious Lord God, whose dwelling is 
 in the highest heavens, in the light that no man can approach 
 unto; and [who] yet of Thine infinite goodness and love to 
 mankind didst send Thine Eternal Word out of Thine own 
 bosom to be the light of the world, to enlighten those that 
 sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and, by destroy- 
 ing the devil and all his works of darkness, to bring life and 
 immortality to light ; 
 
 Give us grace, we beseech Thee, to cast away the unprofit- 
 able works of darkness, and to put upon us the whole armour 
 of light, now in the time of this mortal life ; that, having fought 
 the good fight of faith, and finished our course here with 
 patience and comfort, we may at the last great day rise unto 
 life immortal, and receive that everlasting crown of glory 
 which is laid up for all those that continue steadfast in Thy 
 faith, fear, and love, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who 
 with Thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, now and 
 for ever. Amen. 
 
 Collects Quadragesimal. 
 I. 
 
 [^The MS. exhibits a blank page^ intended apparently for 
 two Collects.'] 
 
 III. 
 
 Almighty and Everlasting God, who out of Thy tender 
 love to the sons of men, didst send Thine only begotten Son 
 
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 Jesus Christ our Saviour out of Thine own bosom, to take 
 upon Him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the Cross for our 
 redemption ; 
 
 Mercifully grant, we beseech Thee, that we and all Thy 
 faithful people may so trust in His meritorious sufferings, and 
 so follow the example of His great humility and patience 
 therein, that at the last we may be made partakers of His 
 glory in Thine everlasting kingdom, through Thy mercy, 
 Heavenly Father, who with the Son and the Holy Ghost 
 livest and reignest, one GtOd, world without end. 
 
 Collects Paschal. 
 
 Almighty God, which through Thine only begotten Son 
 Jesus Christ hast overcome death and opened unto us the 
 gate of everlasting life. 
 
 We beseech Thee so to enliven our dead hearts by Thy 
 Holy Spirit dwelling in us, that we may daily feel the power 
 of Christ's death destroying our sins, and the power of His 
 resurrection raising us up unto newness of life ; 
 
 That so, after this mortal life ended, we may rise unto life 
 immortal, by Thy mercy, Heavenly Father, and the merits 
 of the same Jesus Christ, Thine only Son, our Lord. A7nen. 
 
 Collects Pentecostal. 
 
 God, the King of Glory, who after that Thine only Son 
 Jesus Christ had accomplished the work of our Redemption 
 upon the Cross, didst raise Him up from the grave, and exalt 
 Him with great triumph into the highest heavens. 
 
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 We beseech Thee, leave us not comfortless whilst we live 
 here in this vale of misery ; hut send to us Thy Holy Ghost, 
 to sanctify our hearts and lives, to comfort us in all our sad- 
 nesses and distresses, and to guide us aright in all our ways ; 
 
 That we also by Thy good grace may at length be exalted 
 to that place of endless joy and happiness, whither our blessed 
 Saviour Jesus is gone before us ; who with Thee . and the same 
 Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth one God, world without end. 
 Amen. 
 
 IL 
 
 Almighty God, who, by sending the Holy Ghost upon 
 the Apostles in the likeness of fiery cloven tongues, didst 
 enable them plentifully with gifts and abilities for the service 
 of Thy Church, to propagate the Gospel of Tliy Son Jesus 
 Christ, and instruct all nations of the world in Faith and Holy 
 Religion, 
 
 We beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to send forth 
 from time to time, a plenteous supply of faithful labourers into 
 the Churches of Christ ; to endue them with knowledge and a 
 right judgment in all things appertaining to Truth and Godli- 
 ness ; and to furnish them with such a competent measure of 
 gifts, as may make them serviceable instruments to promote 
 Thy glory, and the salvation of Tliy chosen people, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 * Collects, 
 Wherewith to conclude the Service. 
 
 I. 
 
 Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, which knowest 
 our necessities before we ask, and the manifold ignorances, 
 
 * Collects. Only one is given. 
 
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 frailties, and infirmities of our prayers, wlien we do ask ; and 
 yet hast both commanded us to call upon Thee in all our 
 necessities, and graciously promised to hear the petitions of 
 them that ask in Thy Son's Name, 
 
 We beseech Thee mercifully to incline Thine ears unto us, 
 that have now made our prayers and supplications* unto Thee ; 
 
 That those things which we have faithfully asked agreeably 
 to Thy holy will may be effectually obtained ; 
 
 And that those things which Thou in Thine infinite wisdom 
 knowest to be further expedient for the relief of our necessities 
 and the setting forth of Thy glory, (although we are neither 
 for our sins worthy to receive them, nor for our blindness know 
 how to ask them,) may yet of Thine abundant goodness be 
 vouchsafed unto us, for the worthiness of Thy Son, Jesus 
 Christ our Lord, Amen. 
 
 f Collects and Prayers Occasional. 
 
 I. For a Sick Person. 
 
 Almighty and most Merciful God, who hast made all 
 men, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made, 
 
 Look down, we beseech Thee, from heaven; behold, visit^ 
 and relieve Thy servant which is grieved with sickness. 
 
 Give him^ Lord, a deep sense and sight of his own sins 
 and frailty, that, his heart being broken with true sorrow and 
 unfeigned repentance for the same, he may find comfort and 
 sure confidence in Thy mercy. 
 
 Strengthen him in the spirit of his mind with faith against 
 
 * supplications. Originally there followed, " (though with much weakness.) " 
 t Collects and Prayers. In the MS. no more is given than this, which is fol- 
 lowed by twenty blank pages ; and these, again, by forty-nine pages, exhibiting 
 Notes of nine Sermons, of which four are on the same Text as the Fifteenth 
 ad Aulam, and one on the same Text as the Fourth ad Clerum. 
 
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 all the assaults of the enemy; and give him such ease of 
 bodily pain, as Thy wisdom knoweth to be most expedient for 
 his soul's health. 
 
 Grant that lie may so patiently take Thy fatherly visitation, 
 that, after this painful life ended, he may dwell with Thee in 
 life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Lord, save Thy servant ; 
 
 Which putteth 
 
 Send him help from Thy holy place ; 
 
 And evermore 
 
 Be unto kiin a strong tower. 
 From the face 
 
 The Office of the Communion. 
 
 I. The Instruction. 
 
 We be come together at this time. Dearly beloved Brethren, 
 according to God's Holy Ordinance to eat the Lord's Supper : 
 that is to say, to be partakers of the Holy Communion of the 
 Body and Blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 Wherein as the comfort and benefit is exceeding great, if 
 with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive this Holy 
 Sacrament, for then we spiritually eat the flesh of Christ, and 
 drink His blood; whereby we become one with Christ, and 
 Christ with us, to the strengthening and refreshing of our 
 souls, and preserving them by the power of His death unto 
 everlasting life ; so on the other side is the danger exceeding 
 great, if we receive the same unworthily ; for then we be guilty 
 of the Body and Blood of our Saviour ; we provoke the heavy 
 wrath and displeasure of Almighty God against us ; and for 
 want of discerning the Lord's Body we eat and drink our own 
 
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 damnation. Wherefore it is necessary for every one of us, 
 before we presume to eat of that Bread, and to drink of that 
 Cup, in the first place duly to try and examine our own hearts 
 and ways, by the rule of God's holy Commandments. And 
 whereinsoever we shall find ourselves to have ofiended, either 
 by thought, word, or deed (as in very many things we offend 
 all) to bewail our own sinfulness therein ; to ask pardon at th^ 
 hands. of Almighty God for the same; and to resolve with 
 stedfast purpose of heart, by His good grace to order our lives 
 hereafter according to His holy Word. 
 
 Secondly, forasmuch as God hath exceedingly manifested 
 His great love to mankind in sending His only begotten Son 
 into the world to save sinners, and to reconcile us to Himself 
 when we were yet enemies ; it behoveth us herein to be 
 followers of His example, as dear children,* by loving one 
 another as brethren, to bear no hatred nor malice in our 
 hearts against any man ; but to forgive those that have 
 offended us ; and if we have done wrong to any other, to 
 reconcile ourselves unto them, by acknowledging our offence, 
 and making them just satisfaction for the same. 
 
 Thirdly, we ought to come to this holy Sacrament with a 
 lively and stedfast faith in God's mercy through Christ our 
 Saviour, by the breaking of whose Body, and the shedding of 
 His most precious Blood upon the Cross, (represented unto us 
 in this Sacrament,) we and the whole Church trust to obtain 
 remission of our sins, and all other benefits of His passion, to 
 our great and endless comfort. 
 
 Lastly, forasmuch as this Sacrament f "was ordained by our 
 Saviour Jesus Christ Himself for this end especially, that the 
 remembrance of His death, wherein He offered up Himself a 
 sacrifice for our sins (and the innumerable benefits that we 
 
 * as dear children. Originally, "as dear children of our Heavenly Father." 
 t this Sacrament. Originally, "this blessed Sacrament." 
 
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 receive thereby) might be the better remembered in the 
 Christian Church to all succeeding generations ; 
 
 We are therefore bound to give most humble and hearty- 
 thanks to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for 
 the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our 
 Saviour Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, laid aside 
 His glory and humbled Himself even to the death upon the 
 Cross, for us, miserable sinners, which lay in darkness and in 
 the shadow of death, that He might make us the children of 
 God, and exalt us to everlasting life. 
 
 To Him, therefore, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, 
 be rendered by us (according to our bounden duty) all thanks, 
 honour, praise, power, and dominion, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 II. The Invitation. 
 
 You that do truly repent you of your sins, and be in love 
 and charity with all men, and intend to walk in newness of 
 life, following the Commandments of God, and believing in 
 His Son Jesus Christ, that you may receive His Holy Sacra- 
 ment to your comfort, draw near unto the throne of grace, and 
 make your humble confession to Almighty God, meekly 
 kneeling upon your knees. 
 
 III. The Confession. 
 
 Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 Judge of all men, we acknowledge and bewail our manifold 
 sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most 
 grievously have committed against Thy Divine Majesty. 
 
 We do earnestly repent, and be heartily sorry for all our 
 misdoings. The remembrance of them is grievous unto us : 
 the burden of them is intolerable. 
 
 Have mercy upon us, therefore, most Merciful Father. 
 
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 For Thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, ease us of this 
 heavy burden, by forgiving us all that is past. 
 
 And grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please 
 Thee in newness of life, to Thy honour and glory, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 IV. The Benediction. 
 
 Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who hath promised 
 mercy and forgiveness to all them that with hearty repentance 
 and true faith turn unto Him, have mercy upon you ; pardon 
 and deliver you from all your sins; confirm and strengthen 
 you in all goodness ; and bring you to everlasting life ; through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Lift up your hearts. 
 
 We lift them up unto the Lord. 
 
 Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. 
 
 It is very meet and right so to do. 
 
 V. The Prefaces. 
 
 It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we 
 should at all times, and ip all places, give thanks unto Thee, 
 Lord, Holy Father. 1 rr( ' 
 
 Christmas. 
 But especially are we bound to praise Thee, for that it 
 pleased Thee to give Thine only Son Jesus Christ to be 
 incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and to be 
 made man, and to be born as at this time, for us men and for 
 our own salvation ; and that without any spot of sin, to make 
 us clean from all sin. 
 
 Easter. 
 
 But chiefly are we bound to praise Thee for the glorious 
 Resurrection of Thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ, who having 
 
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 by His death destroyed death, and taken away the sins of the 
 world, rose again the third day from the dead, to restore to us 
 everlasting life. 
 
 Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and all the com- 
 pany of Heaven, we magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore 
 praising Thee and saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lokd God of 
 Hosts, Heaven and earth are full of Thy Glory : Glory be to 
 Thee on high. 
 
 VI. The Prayer. 
 
 It is not in any confidence of our own righteousness, 
 MerciftQ Lord, that we presimie to come to this Thy table. 
 For we are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs 
 from under it. But all our trust is in Thy manifold and great 
 mercies. 
 
 Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of 
 Thy dear Son Jesus Christ and to drink His blood, that our 
 sinful bodies and souls, being sanctified by His body, and 
 washed through His Kiost precious blood, we may evermore 
 dwell in Him, and He jti us. Armn. 
 
 \y^\ TJie Consecration. 
 
 Almighty God om* Heavenly Father, whose only Son Jesus 
 Christ by His own oblation* of Himself, once ofiered upon the 
 cross, hath made a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, and 
 satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world ; and did in His 
 Holy Gospel command us to continue the memory of that His 
 precious death, until His coming again ; grant, merciful 
 Father, we beseech Thee, that we, receiving these creatm^es of 
 bread and wine, according to His holy institution, and in 
 
 * His oivn oblation. So in MS. and so in the Communion Office of the Scotch 
 Church, as revised in IJfiS. 
 
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 remembrance of His death and passion, may be made par- 
 takers of His most blessed body and blood ; who, at His Last 
 Supper, took bread; and, when He had given thanks. He 
 brake it, and gave it to His disciples, saying, — Take, eat, this 
 is Tnj Body which is given for you ; Do this in remembrance 
 of me. Likewise, after supper. He took the cup and gave 
 it to them, saying. Drink ye all of this ; for this is my Blood 
 of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many, 
 for the remiss-ion of sins. Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, 
 in remembrance of me. 
 
 VIII. The Distribution. 
 
 The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for 
 thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Take 
 and eat this, in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and 
 feed on Him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving. 
 
 The Blood of om* Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for 
 thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Drink 
 this in remembrance that Christ shed His precious blood for 
 thee, and be thankful. 
 
 IX. The Act of Warship. 
 Our Father, which art in heaven, &c. 
 
 Lord and Heavenly Father, we give Thee hearty thanks, 
 for that Thou hast vouchsafed to feed us with the spiritual 
 food of the most precious Body and Blood of Thy Son our 
 Saviour Jesus Christ ; most humbly beseeching Thee to grant 
 that all we which have now been partakers of this Holy 
 Communion may be filled with Thy grace and blessing. 
 
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 And here, Lord, we offer and present ourselves, our 
 souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, boly, and lively sacrifice 
 unto Thee, which we beseech Thee mercifully to accept, as our 
 bounden duty and service ; not weighing our merits, (who, 
 through our manifold sins, are not worthy to offer unto Thee 
 any sacrifice,) but pardoning our offences, through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord, to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be 
 all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. 
 
 X. The Hymn. 
 
 Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, and good will 
 towards men. 
 
 We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we worship Thee, we give 
 thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, Lord God, the Father 
 Almighty. 
 
 Lord Jesu Christ, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, 
 that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. 
 Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. 
 Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have 
 mercy upon us. 
 
 For Thou only art holy ; Thou only art the Lord ; Thou 
 only, Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the 
 glory of God the Father. Amen. 
 
 XL The Collect. 
 
 Prevent us, Lord, in all our doings with Thy most 
 gracious favour, and farther us with Thy continual help ; that, 
 all our works being begun, continued, and ended in Thee, we 
 may glorify Thy holy Name, and finally, by Thy mercy, obtain 
 everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 XII. The Mission. 
 The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep 
 
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 your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and 
 of His Son Jesus Chkist our Lord. And the blessing of God 
 Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be upon 
 you and remain with you always. Amen, 
 
 Churching of Women. 
 
 I. The Exhortation. 
 
 Forasmuch as it pleased Almighty God to give you safe 
 deliverance, to preserve you in the great pains and perils of 
 Childbirth, and to restore you to this measure of strength ; 
 
 It is your duty to render hearty thanks to Him for His 
 great mercy and goodness unto you therein ; to lift up your 
 eyes and your heart to the heavens, from whence your help 
 came ; and to acknowledge that all your help for the time to 
 come standeth in the Name of the Lord, which hath made 
 heaven and earth. 
 
 II. The Psalm. 
 
 I am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of 
 my prayer. 
 
 He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call 
 upon Him as long as I live. 
 
 The snares of death compassed me about, and the sorrows 
 of the grave gat hold upon me. 
 
 1 found trouble and heaviness, and called upon the Name 
 of the Lord, Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul. 
 
 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous ; yea, our God i& 
 merciful ; for I was in misery, and He helped me. 
 
 Turn thee then unto thy rest, my soul, for the Lord hath 
 rewarded thee. 
 
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 And why ? Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine 
 eyes from tears, and my feet from falling, 
 
 That I might walk before the Lord in the land of the 
 living. 
 
 what great troubles and adversities hast Thou shewed 
 me, and yet didst Thou turn and refresh me ; yea, and 
 broughtest me up from the deep of the earth again. 
 
 therefore let my mouth be filled with Thy praise, that I 
 may sing of Thy glory and honour all the day long. 
 
 Praised be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for 
 evermore. Praise the Lord. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, &c. 
 
 As it was in the beginning, &c. 
 
 Lord, have mercy upon us, &c. 
 
 Our Father, &c. 
 
 Lord, save this woman, Tliy servant, &c. 
 
 III. The Prayer. 
 
 Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that this woman 
 Thy servant, whom, of Thy great mercy, Thou hast preserved 
 in travail of childbirth, may also, by Thy gracious help, be so 
 preserved both in soul and body in her going out and coming 
 in, that passing the time of her pilgrimage here in Thy fear, 
 she may both live and walk in her vocation according to Thy 
 holy will in this life present, and also may be partaker of Thine 
 everlasting glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
 The Grace of our Lord, &c. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 31 
 
 The Administration of Baptism. 
 
 I. The Exhortation. 
 
 Well-beloved Friends, you have brought this child hither to 
 receive holy Baptism, which is a Sacrament, ordained by 
 ^Christ as a seal and pledge of the Covenant of Grace in 
 the New Testament. 
 
 By virtue of which Covenant, the sons of men, being by 
 nature born in sin, and the children of wrath, and so uncapable 
 of entering into the kingdom of God, until they be regenerate 
 and born anew of water and of the Holy Ghost, are cleansed 
 from their sins by the blood of Jesus Christ our Saviour ; 
 and are thereby made members of Christ, the children of 
 God, and inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 Wherefore, I beseech you, let- us call upon God the Father 
 through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, that this child may 
 be baptized with water and the Holy Ghost, received into the 
 Covenant of Grace, and into the fellowship of Christ's holy 
 Church, and be made a lively member of the same. 
 
 II. The Prayer. 
 
 Almighty and Everlasting God, who by saving Noah and 
 his family from perishing by water, and by leading Thy people 
 Israel safely through the Red sea, didst figure the Sacrament 
 of Baptism ; and by the Baptism of Thy well-beloved Son 
 Jesus Christ in the river of Jordan, didst sanctify the element 
 of water to the mystical washing away of sin ; We beseech 
 Thee mercifully to look upon this infant, sanctify him^ and 
 wash him with the Holy Ghost, that, being delivered from Thy 
 wrath, and receiving remission of his sins by spiritual regen- 
 eration, he may be received into the Ark of Christ's Church, 
 and so ])ass through the waves of this evil world, that at last 
 
32 Bishop Sanderson. 
 
 he may come to the land of everlasting life, through Jesus 
 Chkist om* Lord. Amen, 
 
 III. The Gospel. 
 
 In Mark x. it is thus written : 
 
 At a certain time they brought children to Christ, that He 
 should touch them; and His disciples rebuked those that 
 brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was displeased and 
 said unto them. Suffer little children to come unto me, and 
 forbid them not : for to such belongeth the kingdom of God. 
 Verily I say unto you, whosoever doth not receive the kingdom 
 of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And 
 when He had taken them up in His arms. He put His hands 
 upon them and blessed them. 
 
 IV. Application. 
 
 In which Gospel you may observe how our Saviour Christ, 
 both by His words and by His gesture and deeds, declared His 
 goodwill towards little children ; embracing them in His arms, 
 laying His hands upon them, and blessing them. Where- 
 fore being fuUy persuaded of the goodwill of our Heavenly 
 Father towards such infants, as by the charitable devotion of 
 their Christian friends are brought to His holy Baptism, and 
 nothing doubting, but that for His part He will most surely 
 keep and perform all the gracious promises made in the Gospel 
 of His Son Jesus Christ, to as many as are careful on their 
 part to perform the solemn vow and promise made by them in 
 their Baptism, it remaineth that this infant do here promise 
 and vow by you that be his sureties, that he will forsake the 
 devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy 
 "Word, and obediently keep His Commandments. And you are 
 fiu'ther to remember that [it] is your duty hereafter to take 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 33 
 
 care that this child, so soon as he shall be able to learn, may 
 be put in mind what a solemn vow, promise, and profession it 
 is that he now maketh by you ; which that he may the better 
 understand, you shall provide that he may learn the Creed, the 
 Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in the English 
 tongue, and all other things which a Christian ought to know, 
 believe, or* practise for his soul's health. 
 
 V. The Sponsion. 
 
 1. Dost thou forsake the devil and all his works, the 
 pomps and vanities of this wicked world; and all the sinful 
 lusts of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by 
 them ? 
 
 2. Wilt thou endeavour to keep God's holy will and 
 commandments, and to walk in the same all the days of thy 
 life? 
 
 3. Dost thou believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker 
 of heaven and earth ? 
 
 And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord? And that 
 He was conceived by the Holy Ghost ; born of the Virgin 
 Mary ; that He suffered under • Pontius Pilate, was crucified, 
 dead, and buried ; that He descended into hell, and rose again 
 the third day from the dead ; that He ascended into heaven, 
 and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; 
 and from thence shall come, at the end of the world, to judge 
 both the quick and the dead ? 
 
 And dost thou believe in the Holy Ghost; The Holy 
 Catholic Church ; The Communion of Saints ; The Eemission 
 of sins ; The Resurrection of the flesh ; and everlasting life 
 after death ? 
 
 Wilt thou be baptized into this faith ? 
 
 * or. Originally, "and." 
 
34 Bishop Sanderson. 
 
 VI. The Consecration and Prayer. 
 
 Merciful God, whose dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ, 
 for the forgiveness of our sins, did shed out of His precious 
 side both water and blood ; and gave commission to His 
 Disciples and their successors to the end of the world, to teach 
 all nations, and to baptize them in the Name of the Father, 
 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; Eegard, we beseech 
 Thee, the supplications of Thy Congregation ; and grant that 
 this child which is to be now baptized in this water, may 
 receive the fulness of Thy grace, may have strength and power 
 to fight against and t6 overcome the flesh, the world, and the 
 devil, and ever remain in the number of Thy faithful and elect 
 children, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 vii. The Act of Administration. 
 
 N. I baptize thee in the Name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 We receive this child into the Congregation of Christ's 
 flock, with this hope, that he will account it no shame to 
 confess the faith of Christ crucified ; but that he will fight 
 manfully under His banner against sin, the world, and the 
 devil, and continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto 
 his life's end. Amen. 
 
 VIII. The Thanksgiving and Prayer. 
 Our Father, which art &c. 
 
 We give Thee hearty thanks, Merciful Father, that [it] 
 hath pleased Thee, by the washing of regeneration, to incor- 
 porate and ingraft this infant into the body of Christ's 
 ■ Congregation,* 
 
 * Congregation. So, previously to the last Review. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 35 
 
 And humbly we beseech Thee to grant that he may lead 
 the rest of his life in this present world answerably to the 
 Christian profession he hath now made ; 
 
 And that he ma} follow the example of our Saviour Christ, 
 and be made like unto Him ; That, as Christ died, and was 
 buried, and rose again from death to life, so he^ being dead 
 unto sin, and buried with Christ by Baptism into His death, 
 may crucify the old man, even the whole body of sin, and feel 
 the power of Christ's Resurrection raising him up unto new- 
 ness of life ; 
 
 That so, finally, with the residue of Thy holy Congregation, 
 he may be an inheritor of Thine everlasting kingdom ; through 
 the same our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen, 
 
36 Bishop Sanderson. 
 
 The Office of Christian Burial. 
 I. At the Church gate or door. 
 
 I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he 
 that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live ; 
 and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall not die for 
 ever. 
 
 We brought nothing into this world, neither may carry 
 anything out of this world. 
 
 The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Even as the 
 Lord pleaseth, so cometh things to pass. Blessed be the 
 Name of the Lord. 
 
 II. In the Church. 
 
 I. The Lord's Prayer. 
 II. Psalms xxxix, xc. 
 III. Lesson, i Cor. xv, 20. 
 
 III. At the Grave. 
 
 TJie Prayer. 
 
 Lord God, who for the sin of man hast appointed him 
 but a short time to live, and that full of vanity, trouble, and 
 vexation of spirit ; Give us grace, we Humbly beseech Thee, 
 so to number our days, to remember our end, and how short 
 and uncertain our stay is here in this miserable and sinful 
 world, that we may timely and steadfastly apply our hearts 
 to heavenly wisdom.* Lord, forgive us our sins, and deliver 
 [us] not into the bitter pains of eternal [death] ; but grant 
 
 * heavenly ivisdom. After this was originally written, "Teach us to subdue our 
 carnal lusts and affections, and strengthen us against all the assaults of the world, 
 the flesh, and the devil." But the pen was afterwards drawn across all this. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 37 
 
 that by continuance in well-doing, by a lively faitli and a 
 godly life, we may lay a good foundation of hope against the 
 time to come, and in the end through Thy mercy obtain ever- 
 lasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, 
 
 IV. The Interring. 
 
 Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God * to deliver 
 this our brother here departed out of the miseries of this sinful 
 world, and to take his soul unto His own mercy ; We therefore 
 commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, 
 dust to dust, in hope of resurrection unto eternal life, through 
 our Lord Jesus Christ; Who at His second coming will 
 change these our vile bodies, that they may be made like unto 
 His glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby 
 He is able to subdue all things to Himself. 
 
 Lord, have mercy upon us, &c. 
 Our Father, which art &c. 
 
 V. The Last Prayer. 
 
 Almighty God, in whose presence the souls of them that 
 die in Thy fear, after they be delivered from the burden of the 
 flesh, do live in joy and felicity ; We humbly beseech Thee, 
 that, as it pleased Thee to take the soiil of this Thy servant 
 unto Thy mercy, so it would please Thee of Thy gracious 
 goodness, in Thy good appointed time to accomplish the 
 number of Thine elect, and to hasten the kingdom of Thy Son 
 Jesus Christ; that we, and all other departed in the true 
 faith of Thy Holy Name, may have our perfect consummation 
 ^nd bliss, both in body and soul, in Thy eternal glory. Amen. 
 
 The Grace of our Lord, &c. 
 
 * Almighty God. Originally there followed here, " of His great mercy." 
 
38 Bishop Sanderson. 
 
 The Office of Matrimony. 
 
 Forasmuch as we are here met together to Join these 
 two persons in Holy Matrimony, we are to consider that 
 Matrimony is the ordinance of God, instituted in the state of 
 man's innocency, affirmed by St. Paul to be honourable among 
 all men, and to be a lively representation of the union that is 
 betwixt Christ and His Church ; and honoured by our Blessed 
 Saviour Himself, who not only vouchsafed His presence, but 
 also wrought His first miracle, at a Marriage. 
 
 II. 
 
 We are next to consider the three special ends for which 
 Marriage was ordained. To wit these : First, for the propa- 
 gating of mankind, by the procreation of children to be 
 brought up in the fear of God. 
 
 Secondly, for a remedy against carnal lusts ; that such as 
 have not the gift of continency might marry, and so keep 
 themselves undefiled members of Christ. 
 
 Thirdly, for the mutual help and comfort, which the 
 husband and the wife may and ought to have the one of 
 the other's society, as well in prosperity as adversity. 
 
 III. 
 
 Now whereas the Marriage of such persons as are coupled 
 together otherwise than God hath allowed in His Word, is not 
 of God, and therefore cannot expect a blessing from Him, 
 
 I require you all here present, if any of you can show any 
 just cause why this man and woman may not be lawfully 
 joined together in Marriage, that you now declare it before this 
 congregation, or else for ever hereafter hold your peace. 
 
Bishop Sanderson. 3^ 
 
 And more especially I charge you both, in the presence of 
 GrOD, who knoweth the secrets of all hearts, if either of you 
 know any such cause or impediment, that you presently confess 
 it, and proceed no farther in this business. 
 
 Do you know any ? 
 
 Or you ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 It is requisite then that you signify your several mutual 
 consents before this congregation here present. 
 
 N. Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to 
 live together in the holy state of Matrimony, in such manner 
 as ye ought to do according to God's holy ordinance ? 
 
 / will. 
 
 N. Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to 
 live together in the holy state of Matrimony, in such manner 
 as ye ought to do, according to God's holy ordinance ? 
 
 I will. 
 
 Who giveth this woman in Marriage ? 
 
 V. 
 
 I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to have and 
 to hold, to love, comfort, and cherish, from this day forward,, 
 till death us depart,* according to God's holy ordinance ; and 
 thereto I plight thee my troth. 
 
 I N. take thee N. to my wedded husband, to have and 
 to hold, to love, cherish, and obey, from this day forward, till 
 death us depart,* according to God's holy ordinance ; and 
 thereto I plight thee my troth. 
 
 With this Ring I thee wed ; with my body I thee worship ; 
 and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. In the Name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 * depart. So, previously to the last Keview. 
 
40 Bishop Sanderson, 
 
 VI. 
 
 God Almighty and Everlasting, the preserver of all 
 mankind, the fountain of all spiritual grace, the lover of 
 truth and concord ; Give Thy blessing, we beseech Thee, to this 
 man and this woman; That they may duly remember, and 
 faithfully perform the solemn promise and covenant now 
 between them made; that they may live together all their 
 days in holy religion towards Tliee, and in perfect peace and 
 love between themselves ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Forasmuch as N. and N. have consented together in 
 holy Wedlock, and have here, in the presence of God and of 
 this congregation, witnessed their said consent by the express 
 words by them uttered, and also declared the same by joining 
 of hands, 
 
 1 pronounce that they be man and wife together. In the 
 Name • of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Ghost. Amen. 
 
 Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put 
 asunder. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Almighty God, who, after He had created our first parents 
 Adam and Eve, did sanctify them, and join them together 
 in Marriage, bless, preserve, and keep you; cause the light 
 of His favourable countenance to shine upon you; fill you 
 with the riches of His heavenly Grace ; 
 
 That you may walk before Him all the days of your life, in 
 holiness and mutual love; and, after this mortal life ended, 
 may, by His mercy, attain to everlasting life, through the 
 merits of our Blessed Lord and only Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 Amen. 
 
[2%^ Condition of the first leaf of the MS. has left the Title 
 very imperfectly legible.'] 
 
 ADVIZING THE 
 
 BUT 
 
 SUBMITTING ALL TO THE JUDGMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 OUB H. MOTHER, THE CHURCH 
 OF ENGLAND. 
 
It is God alone, that can bring Light out of Darkness. 
 
 Never could there have been an opportunity so oifenceless 
 on the Church's part, for amending the Book of Common 
 Prayer, as now, when it hath been so long disused, that not 
 one of five hundred is so perfect in it as to observe alterations ; 
 and they who are likeliest to pry into it, do know themselves 
 to have been the Causers of it. If, therefore, upon the loud 
 clamours which for these fifteen* years have been taken up, in 
 general terms, against the Book by the several factions, (who 
 would have no set Forms, that they themselves might be bound 
 to none; that desire all Eeligion should hang on their lips, 
 as well for Praying as for Preaching; that liked not to have 
 the King's authority so much asserted, and so often prayed for, 
 as in the Liturgy it is ; nor would have the Bishops at all,) 
 it may now please the King of his grace to all, by Proclama- 
 tion, or how else he shall please, to make it lawful for every 
 man, of such a quality, in every County, at such places, and 
 within so many days, (which need not be many, after fifteen 
 years' preparation) to bring in under their hands, in terms 
 beseeming, what particulars soever they would except against 
 in the Book, and the reasons, to be delivered to such as His 
 Majesty shall appoint in every County to receive the same : 
 also, that they who receive the same shall keep a perfect note 
 
 of every such f the day when and the parties from 
 
 whom they receive the same, and then shall presently, under 
 their own hands and seals, transmit the same into the Chan- 
 cery, where all such exceptions shall be viewed and judged of, 
 by those whom His Majesty shall think fit to appoint in his 
 
 * Fifteen years. The public use of the Prayer Book was forbidden by Act of 
 Parliament, January 3rd, 1645 ; and the private use in families, by another Act, 
 August 23rd, 1645. 
 
 t The MS. is damaged so as to be illegible. 
 
46 Bishop Wren, 
 
 own stead; and these alterations being by them so admitted 
 as thereby to make perfect that Form of Common Prayer, — the 
 Book shall come forth, for public use, as the former Book did. 
 
 This would be done with as much expedition as may be ; 
 with a command, that none of the old Editions shall in the 
 meanwhile be required in the Churches. But by this way 
 those amendments whereof there is need, may be inserted; 
 and nothing shall redound to the dishonour of the Church 
 under which it was so long used, and not amended before. 
 
 Toward this Reforming, 
 
 1. One general Rule would be, that every word throughout 
 (as much as can be) should be commonly understood. The 
 aiming whereat in the Compilers of the Old Book was very 
 commendable, though it was but slenderly observed, because 
 Latin Terms were then so much in use ; and one course which 
 they took therein was not so well advised, as having produced 
 that which is now a blemish, and calls for an amendment. 
 When using a word not perfectly understood in our Language, 
 they joined another to it to expound it, as " Erred and Strayed," 
 " Perils and Dangers," "Vanquish and Overcome," " King and 
 Governor," "Bishop and Pastor." But now 'tis grown to be 
 but an idle repetition; and in some, the latter word is less 
 understood, or liable to more misconstruction, than the former. 
 
 2. Another Rule would be. That whatsoever is not very 
 perfect and right, be it never so small, should now be set right, 
 to prevent all after quarrels ; yet all care now to be had, that, 
 in setting it right, it be done with as little alteration as 
 well may be. But the more it is now condescended to the 
 mending of the smaller things, though some but merely verbal, 
 the less scruple will be made of altering some other things, 
 that may seem to be of a greater consequence. 
 
 3. A third Rule would be, because no Language but at 
 
Bisliop Wren. 47 
 
 first is more imperfect and unpolished^ and in every Age (of 
 seventy years) admits mncli variation, that heed be now taken 
 to this, it being so long since the former Book was composed, 
 that the errors thereof have now by use corrupted the Lan- 
 guage. There is one little word which crept into our Prayers, 
 at the Translation of the Litany into English, under King 
 Henry YIIL, for the use of the Army then going to Boulogne, 
 which from thence has spread itself, and hath infected many of 
 the Collects and the Prayers which have been used since, and 
 yet is a very solecism : That the word which, which [doth'^Jonly 
 belong unto things without life or without reason, should be 
 used also instead of who, and be the Eelative for persons, 
 human, or (much less) Divine. It began, therefore, then with 
 Our Father, Which art in Heaven, instead of Our Father, Who 
 art in Heaven. The altering whereof, if it may seem strange 
 at first to unskilful ears, yet will it not be a nine days' wonder, 
 but for ever after a right expression in all our addresses unto 
 God. 
 
 Some other Rules, fit to observe, will fall in by the way as 
 we go on. 
 
 In these Advices, I go by that edition (which I only now 
 have) of the Book of Common Prayer, in quarto, printed 
 A.D. 1639. Unto every page whereof I have added the num- 
 ber, until I came unto the Epistles and Gospels, which I cite 
 by the Day. 
 
 At the Order also for the Communion, I return again to set 
 the pages thereof, and to make my notes by those numbers. 
 But in this part there was a mistake, the fifteenth page being 
 set twice, which I hope will be pardoned. 
 
 The forty first pages of this Book contain nothing but Kal- 
 endars and Kubricks, and Eules, and other Preambles. But 
 in that they are set in the front of the Book, it is fit that 
 they be reviewed also. 
 
48 Bishop Wren. 
 
 To the very Title Page, towards the bottom thereof, would 
 be added. 
 With the Psalter^ or Psalms of David^ as they are to be read 
 in Churches. 
 
 The first page is in a manner needless, and very much of it 
 is wrong. Let therefore the first ten heads be quite left out, 
 as being very broken, false, and disordered. § 
 
 The other part to be placed rather for the fortieth page, 
 and to be set down thus : 
 
 I. TJie Order for Morning Prayer. 
 
 II. The Order for Evening Prayer. 
 
 III. The Confession of Faith., called Quicunque vult. 
 
 IV. The Public Supplication^ called the Litany. 
 
 V. The Collects^ Epistles^ and Gospels. 
 
 VI. TJie Order for administering the Holy Communion. 
 
 VII. TJie Order for Baptism^ Public and Private. 
 
 VIII. The Order for Confirmation^ with the Instruction^ called 
 
 the Catechism. 
 
 IX. The Order for Holy Matrimony. 
 
 X. The Prayers in Public for the Sick. (If any shall be ap- 
 
 pointed.) 
 
 XI. The Visitation of the Sick 
 
 XII. The Communion of the Sick. 
 
 XIII. The Order for Burial. 
 
 XIV. The Thanksgiving after Childbirth. 
 
 XV. The Denouncing of God's Judgments against Sinners^ 
 
 called the Commination. 
 
 § Tho first ten heads are:— (1.) The Tahle and Kalendar for Psalms and 
 Lessons, with necessary Eules appertaining to the same. (2.) The Table for the 
 Order of Psalms to be said at Morning and Evening Prayer. (3.) An Almanack. 
 (4.) An Act for the uniformity of Public Prayer. (5.) A Proclamation for the 
 authorizing of the same. (6.) A Preface. (7.) Of Ceremonies, why some be 
 abolished, and some retained. (8.) The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be 
 read. (9.) The Order how the rest of Holy Scriptures is appointed to be read. 
 (10.) Proper Psalms and Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer, for Sundays and 
 certain Feasts and Days. 
 
Bishop Wren. 49 
 
 The second page and the eleven which follow are the 
 Kalendar. In all which, the first note about the Sun's rising 
 and falling (the setting is a fitter word) is very false, in the 
 most of them. 
 
 Also the word Psalms, set in red letters over the first 
 column, is in vain. Leave it out. 
 
 Then there are eight distinct columns, of which the third 
 is of no use now, as to our Divine Service. If it must 
 stand, let it be formed in every one thus : 
 
 Kalendas Jan. Nonas Jan. Idus Jan. 
 
 xix. Kalend. Februarii. 
 
 so that the word Februarii run not into the next column. 
 And so in the rest. 
 
 The fourth column would be well considered of. Stand it 
 must ; for there is never a month but hath some day in it 
 of God, or of the Holy Apostles of Christ. 
 
 As for the rest, though it hath been truly said, that in the 
 Reformation, to avoid so great a number of Saints in general, 
 one day, called All Saints', was set out, and became a great 
 Feast ; and yet some few were then retained, unto whom our 
 people were most afiected, and with whom they were best 
 acquainted ; this very reason (taken from the times as then they 
 were) is sufiicient why there should now be some alteration, 
 and none but of our own nation, or such as in some particular 
 respect do concern our nation (for we formerly had a great 
 hold in France) be retained, and sprinkled into that column ; 
 and the choice of these or of any other to be recommended by 
 the Church to the King and his great Council. Also, whoso- 
 ever shall be left in, it will be very meet that who they were, 
 and the time when they lived, be briefly expressed. 
 
 On the twenty-fifth day, let " Conversion of Paul," be in 
 H 
 
50 Bishop Wren. 
 
 a Kubrick, inasmuch as our Church observes it, though the 
 Statute overslipt it.* 
 
 (February.) p^^^ 3^ rj^^ ^QCQ^di daj would rathcp bc styled 
 "Presenting of Christ;" and so the sixth day, on the page 
 before, " Christ manifest to the Gentiles," for Epiphany. 
 
 There would be also Lessons set for the twenty-ninth day 
 in Leap Years. Deut. xiii, Deut. xiv. 
 
 (March.) p^ 4^ Q^ ^j^^ gj.g^ ^^^^ ^^^^ sccoud Lessou should 
 be Luke xii. The twenty-fifth day to be called Annunciation 
 of Christ to Mary ; for, by our Lawyers' leave. Annunciation of 
 Mary is a solecism. 
 
 The thirty-first day, the second Lesson was the Gospel in 
 AP 1648; and so will be again ere long. Let there be a 
 Kubrick to direct what to do in that case. 
 
 (April.) p^ 5^ rj^g Second Lesson, April 30, ii and iii John. 
 
 (Jane.) p^ -7^ Bamabas, Ap., on the eleventh day would 
 be in a Kubrick, for our Church's sake, though it was scattered 
 out of the Statute.* And it is to be wished the Statute were 
 a little amended. 
 
 The twenty-ninth day should be Peter and Paul, App. 
 
 (July.) p^ g^ Q^^ y^j^ Dog-days from among the Saints. 
 
 (August.) p^ 9^ jf Lammas stand, let it be expounded, from 
 Lqfen; because of the Oblations and Divine Service for the 
 new corn then in use. 
 
 The notes for the Lessons on the twenty-fifth day, and the 
 twenty-ninth, and the thirtieth, are disordered ; let them be 
 set right. 
 
 * 5, 6 Edward VI, cap. 3. 
 
Bishop Wren. 51 
 
 (October.) P. 11. Put in tlie first Lesson at morning j on the 
 first day, Exod. vi. And if the note of the Sun's progress do 
 stand in every month, put here Sol in Scorp. 
 
 the Psalms) P- 14. There is no need or use at all of this Table. 
 It is transplaced: it should stand page 28, next under that 
 title ; for there it is promised, and there's none. 
 
 %y°?eaio P- 15. Make a new one, for this is near to an end. 
 
 Put in also the rule of the Golden Number, or leave out 
 the name of it, at the bottom of this page. 
 
 SunSmity,) ^' 1^' ^ame the year in which this Act was made ; 
 and so page 22 for that Preface. 
 
 LgraphJ^^now P- 25. It would bc said from whence this came, 
 
 subjoined ^° -, • i t t -i i • 
 
 1549.^^*^°^ °* that it may be known by what authority. 
 
 In the first line, it would be said. Though it be intended. 
 
 In the eighth line, say, — are bound. But what warrant 
 for those exceptions ? 
 
 In the twelfth line, the word Curate now in England is 
 grown into quite another sense. It is here put, to signify 
 every one upon whom doth lie the duty of Administration 
 in that Church or Chapel. 
 
 In the thirteenth line, these words, and not being otherwise 
 reasonably let^ are no very good sense ; but they would be left 
 out, as letting it rest at his own peril, if without good reason 
 he do at any time omit it. 
 
 In the fifteenth line, let the hours for tolling of the bell 
 be named, — at some time betwixt ten and twelve, and again 
 betwixt two and four. 
 
 t This had been Zech. xi in the three previous Books. In 1604 it was left 
 blank, with a foot note directing Exodus vi to be read to verse 13. 
 
52 Bishop Wren. 
 
 SnS&c.) p. 26. The date of this would not be omitted. 
 
 ffindST.? P. 28. See what is said before ad pag. 14. 
 
 Upon this page, here are six paragraphs. The two first 
 (the first line only excepted) would be omitted; for that 
 Order for the Psalms* is not observed. And it makes such 
 a strange disturbance, so long together, the people jeering 
 now at the Ministers for it, as if they were mistaken, or 
 worse, that it cannot be used. Also the fourth paragraph 
 is in vain, and would be omitted. In the sixth paragraph, 
 name the year of the Edition of the great English Bible. 
 
 (Theorderhow p^ ^9. Thc two first paragraphs here also would be 
 
 Holy Scrip- 7 /• 
 
 r^d./* *° ^^ omitted. For those words, least edifying^ and might 
 best be spared^ are not so satisfactory, but that they will rather 
 incite the quarrelsome to a comparison betwixt these parts of 
 Scripture omitted and those of the Apocrypha which are 
 appointed to be read. 
 
 To the fifth paragraph add this, Except in that week there 
 be some Feast Bay^ which hath a proper Collect^ Epistle^ and 
 Gospel, 
 
 The sixth paragraph is liable to a quarrel, unless it be put 
 thus. When the years of our Lord upon the Annunciation Day 
 may be divided into ; for in our Church the year begins not till 
 then. But the Leap is in February. This Kule therefore 
 counts the beginning of the year from Christmas, at which 
 time indeed the Golden Numbers and the Dominical Letters 
 do change. 
 
 In the last paragraph, let the verses be set down. To begin 
 the same at the 18 t?., and the other. Shall be read to tJie 23 v. 
 
 * ' And because January and March have one day above the said number, and 
 February which is placed between them both, hath only 28 days, February shall 
 borrow of either of the months (of January and March) one day ; and so the 
 Psalter which shall be read in February must begin at the last day of January and 
 end the first day of March.' 
 
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 sonXrl;^- P. 30. To keep to the Kule of expounding every 
 
 (Proper Les- 
 sons f 
 days.) 
 
 word, instead of Mattens and Evensong, set it, Morning and 
 Evening Prayer. 
 
 And, Sundays before the Coming of Christ, called the Advent. 
 
 Sundays before the Birth of Christ, called Christmas. 
 
 Sundays after the Manifesting of Christ to the Gentiles, 
 called the Epiphany. 
 For Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, to 
 expound them, and to give the reason (what use soever they 
 have been in) is so gross and unreasonable, that it will be 
 better quite to omit them. For however Quadragesima was 
 never amiss, because that first Sunday in Lent is just the 
 fortieth day before our Saviour's Passion; yet from any 
 analogy thereunto, the Sunday before it to be called Quin- 
 quagesima, which is but forty-seven days, and Sexagesima, 
 which is but fifty-four days, and Septuagesima, which is but 
 sixty-one days before, how great soever the devotion of those 
 times was, yet the blindness was greater. Will it not be best 
 now to style them the Third, the Second, and the next Sunday 
 before Lent ? 
 
 P. 31. Bather let th^ sixth Sunday in Lent have the xxvi 
 Chapter of St. Matthew set to it for a Proper Second Lesson. 
 Because that and xxvii Chapter joined together do make the 
 Gospel for that Day, in divers regards, overlong. 
 
 Easter Day, Evening Prayer, Exod. xiv. Also Acts ii, to 
 begin at the 22 v. 
 
 Whitsunday. Of both the second Lessons set down the 
 verse — Acts xx, 34, and Acts xix, to the 23 v. And thus set 
 down the verse, in all places here following. 
 
 For Trinity Sunday here wants a second Lesson at Evening 
 Prayer. 
 
 Take the i John, v. 
 
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 P. 32. On the seventh Sunday after Trinity, the first 
 Lesson at morning is ii Sam. xxii. Now that being the xvii 
 Psalm, and thereby is read every month, and falls out some- 
 times to be read among the Psalms for that day, rather let the 
 Lesson be ii Sam. xxiii unto the 24 verse. 
 
 P. 33. Add here in every place the number of the verse 
 at which to begin or end. 
 
 P. 34. The Manifesting of Christ to the Gentiles, called 
 the Epiphany. 
 
 The Presenting oj Christ in the Temple, called the Purifi- 
 cation of the Virgin Mary. 
 
 Lessons are here wanting for the first day of Lent. There 
 would be also a second Lesson proper for Good Friday; for 
 when it falls on the last of March, the second Lesson is the 
 Gospel. Adding here also the note of the verses, where 
 to begin and end. 
 
 P. 35. It would be S. Philip and Jac. S. John Baptist. 
 S. Peter and Paul. Note the verses also. 
 
 P. 36. S. Simon and Jude. Here also note the verses. 
 Also here would be proper Psalms set for the First Day of 
 Lent, Morning : vi, xxxii, xxxviii ; Evening : cii, cxxx, cxliii. 
 Good Friday, Morning : xxii, Ixxxviii ; Evening : xciv, cxliii. 
 
 ^h^theS P. 37. To what end this here ? Away with it. 
 
 beglnneth and 
 endeth.) 
 
 ilr^ved'forHoS P- 38. Namc the year and the. Act. And it were 
 otS^r.r to be wished it might be altered, as we said before.* 
 
 ^herfMo^ng P. 39. Sct dowu whcu this Order was made. 
 
 and Evening 
 
 STanKd^? But who can now tell which place, when this Order 
 was made, was the accustomed place ? 
 
 * See above, P. 7 on page 50. 
 
Bishop Wren. 65 
 
 Also, who knows how the Chancels were in those times 
 past, so many having since then been demolished, and manj^ 
 disused ? 
 
 But what is now fit to be ordered herein, and to preserve 
 those that are still in use, it would be set down in express 
 words, without these uncertainties which breed nothing but 
 debate and scorn. The very words too of that Act, 2 Edw. YI, 
 for the Minister's Ornaments, would be set down, or to pray to 
 have a new one made ; for there is somewhat in that Act that 
 now may not be used. 
 
 P. 40. Leave out of the Rubrick these words, and likewise 
 of Evening Prayer ; for it is more than is in the Title about it. 
 It thwarts also the Rubric for Evening Prayer, page 51. 
 
 Ibid. The first sentence should be set Ezek. xviii, 21. 
 Examine all the rest also, for my book is torn. 
 
 P. 41. In the Exhortation there are needless multiplying 
 of words, acknowledge and confess ; humble and lowly ; assemble 
 and meet together ; requisite and necessary ; pray and beseech. 
 
 Ibid. Those words, saying after me., would be well considered 
 of. They came in here after the Reformation had been 
 admitted ; but it was a time of great averseness from making 
 any Confession but Auricular, and of great ignorance in people 
 of that which was to be said. Secondly, it hath now been 
 much disused and laid aside, especially in Cathedral Churches, 
 (which should be the Pattern to other Churches, as a Mother 
 to her Daughters) and in the King's Chapels, and in Colleges. 
 Thirdly, it gives some countenance to another uncouth and 
 senseless custom, not long since brought in by some factions, 
 one to read a line of a Psalm, and then all the rest to sing it. 
 Will it not be better, therefore, though not to set down any- 
 
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56 Bishop Wren. 
 
 thing to the contrary, yet to leave out those two words, after 
 me, and so in the Kubrick also ? 
 
 In the Confession, Erred and strayed is of the former 
 strain, especially seeing that in David, from whence it is 
 taken, Psalm cxix, 1 76, it is only I have gone estray. 
 
 Ibidem. We have followed too much the devices, ^c. This is 
 very improper ; as though there were a proportion, how far to 
 follow that which it is unlawful to follow at all. Put it home 
 rather here, and make it. We have only followed the devices and 
 desires of our own hearts, 
 
 P. 42. And unto the first Kubrick, By the Priest alone 
 standing up, and the People all still kneeling. 
 
 In the Absolution the word Which is three times : the last 
 only is right ; and that shows the other two should be Who. 
 
 To the next Eubrick add, begin the hordes prayer with an 
 audible voice, all kneeling and saying with him. Our Father, ^c. 
 This note was put in at first, because in the Latin Service they 
 were to say it to themselves. 
 
 And here let be added, For Thine is the kingdom, the power, 
 ^c, though the Church of England did then use to omit it, 
 as appears by the Catechism and in the Litany : And now it 
 may be omitted in other places of the Divine Service, except it 
 be at large printed. 
 
 At the end of every Prayer, all the people shall audibly 
 answer. Amen. 
 
 Then the Minister alone shall say, Lord, open Thou our 
 lips, ^c. 
 
 P. 43. To the first word there, Answer, let be adjoined, 
 by all present, and so to be observed through this whole Book, 
 where there is this general direction. Answer, 
 
Bishop Wren. 57 
 
 Then all shall stand up, and the Priest shall say 
 
 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy 
 
 Ghost. 
 
 Answer. 
 
 As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever &c. 
 
 The Priest. 
 Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Answer. 
 
 The Lord's Name be praised. 
 
 This being the first Psalm that is read in the Divine 
 Service, it is meet that here it be well considered and resolved, 
 what Translation of the Psalms shall be followed through the 
 whole Book of Common Prayer. 
 
 Also a Kubrick would here be set, that 
 
 Throughout the Divine Service, whenever any Psalm or 
 Hymn is begun by the Priest, he saying the first verse thereof, 
 the Clerks and the people that can, are to answer the next 
 verse, and so by course to the end thereof. 
 
 P. 44. The first Kubrick is to be divided, and the last 
 part of it to be set foremost, thus : 
 
 At the end of every Psalm that is read, and likewise at the 
 end of the Benedictus^ Benedicite^ Magnificat., and Nunc 
 Dimittis, the Priest shall say. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, and &c. 
 Answer. 
 
 As it was in the beginning, is now, &c. 
 
 Here shall follow the Psalms that are appointed for this 
 day of the month, except there be some Proper Psalms 
 appointed for it. 
 
 The last Rubrick of this Page, the most of it is to be left 
 
58 Bishop Wren. 
 
 out, for now the Lessons, Epistle, and Gospel are no where 
 
 sung. 
 
 After the First Lesson, the Priest standing up shall say 
 Let us now give Praise unto Almighty GoB^ and say 
 We praise Thee, God, we &c. 
 
 Answer. 
 All the earth doth worship &c. 
 and so on by course unto the end of that Hymn called Te 
 Deum. 
 
 Very requisite it is that some such words of exhortation be 
 appointed wherewith to stir up the people to Thanksgiving 
 after every Lesson, because very many are not quick enough of 
 themselves to mark how the Church passeth from Reading to 
 Praying ; and it hath been a cavil against the Liturgy as 
 though it were wanting in the duty of Praise. 
 
 Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Tsebaoth, or, of Hosts^ not 
 Sabbath. 
 
 P. 47. After the Second Lesson the Priest shall say 
 
 Let us now bless GoD^ as holy Zachary did. 
 And so he shall begin in English that Hymn which was called 
 Benedictus, the people answering every other verse. 
 
 P. 48. The last Kubrick thus : 
 
 Then shall be said the Confession of Faith called the 
 Apostles' Creed by the Minister and the people, all stand- 
 ing up. 
 
 In the Creed, 
 
 Hie only Son, our Lord, WIw was conceived &c. 
 
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 P. 49. After Let us pray, the Minister, Clerks, and people 
 shall say together, 
 
 Lord, have mercy &c., and ' 
 
 Our Father, &c. 
 In the last line of that page the word People should be left 
 
 out, thus : 
 
 Answer. 
 
 And make Thy Chosen joyful. 
 
 P. 50. The title of that second Collect would be 
 For Peace and Defence. 
 
 At the third Collect, a Rule in the margin, if it be after 
 Nine of the Clock in the morning, to read it 
 
 Who hast safely brought us through the beginning of 
 this day, defend us in the same &c. 
 
 P. 51. A first Kubrick here let be. 
 
 The Priest beginning the LoRUS Prayer, all shall kneel 
 down, and say it with him. 
 
 A Second Kubrick, after make haste to help us. Here shall 
 all stand up, and the Priest shall say. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, &c. 
 
 Answer. 
 As it was in the beginning, is now, &c. 
 
 Priest. 
 Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Answer. 
 The LORD'S Name be praised. 
 
 Then this Kubrick, 
 
 After the Psalms for the Day be said, the First Lesson shall 
 be read, and then shall follow in English the Hymn called the 
 
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 Magnificat J the Priest first distinctly saying, Let us give Praise 
 to Gob, with the same words that the Blessed Virgin did. 
 
 It is very requisite to express this Exhortation thus, because 
 of those words spoken of Herself, All generations shall call me 
 blessed. 
 
 P. 52. Or, Let us praise God, and say the xcviii Psalm of 
 David. 
 
 P. 53. Then shall be read the Second Lesson. And after 
 it shall be said, in English, the Hymn called Nunc Dimittis, 
 the Priest first saying 
 
 Let us give Pf-aise unto Gob, as old Simeon did : 
 
 Or, with the Ixvii Psalm of David. 
 
 P. 54. Leave out the last words of the first Kubrick, 
 without alteration. 
 
 In the Second Collect for Peace, it is nonsense and 
 abominable falsation to say, that both our hearts: either leave 
 the word, both, quite out, or read it, both that our hearts may be 
 
 set ^c. 
 
 In the Third Collect, Perils and dangers is idem per idem. 
 
 That this Prayer also is to be said in the Afternoons in 
 Summer is but very improper, unless it shall be thought fit to 
 say it thus. Lighten the darkness, we beseech Thee, Lorb, thai 
 the Night will bring upon us, and by Thy great Mercy defend us 
 from all dangers of the same, for the love of Thy only Son, our 
 Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
 
 In the great Kubrick there following, change the Epiph- 
 any ;* and for Pentecost, read Whitsun Day. 
 
 Add to the end of the Kubrick, This Confession of the 
 
 * See above, p. 50, line 5. 
 
Bishop Wren. 61 
 
 Christian Faith, called Quicunque vult, in the place of the 
 Apostles' Creed, 
 
 P. 55 and 56. Leave out the Latin Title, Quicunque vult* 
 
 P. 57. That Kubrick, thus, Here followeth the Public Sup- 
 plication called the Litany, to be said next after the three Collects^ 
 on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and at other times, 
 when the Ordinary appointeth it. 
 
 P. 58. Change the Title into the Public Supplication^ and 
 so to the end of it. God, the Father, from Heaven. 
 
 Also, From all Rebellion^ Treason^ Sedition and Conspiracy ; 
 from all false Doctrine, Heresy, and Blasphemy ; from Schism 
 and Faction^ from hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy 
 Word and Commandment. 
 
 Also, By Thine Agony and Sweaty as drops of Blood; by 
 Thy Cross and Passion fc. For bloody sweat is a phrase 
 much quarrelled at. 
 
 Also, holiness of Ife, Thy Servant Charles, our Sovereign 
 Lord the King. 
 
 To say King and Governor, is a diminution of the former 
 by the latter. 
 
 Advantages also for Treason have been pretended to, out of 
 that phrase. 
 
 P. 59. Leave a space for the Third Petitionf upon this 
 page, with this Kubrick in it. Here to be put in, as by the Sove- 
 reign shall be appointed, from time to time. 
 
 Also, That it may please Thee to illuminate all Pastors of 
 Thy Flock, called the Bishops, and all other Ministers thereof 
 with true knowledge, and &c. 
 
 * i.e. in the Bunning Title. 
 t i.e. the Intercession for the Royal Family. 
 
62 Bishop Wren. 
 
 That it may please Thee to endue the Lords of ^2S Council, 
 and all his Nobles, with Grace, Wisdom, Understanding, and 
 Courage. 
 
 That it may please Thee to bless all that are in Office and 
 Magistracy under him, giving ^c. 
 
 P. 61. Leave out the word the Versicle, and set in place of 
 
 it: 
 
 Friest. 
 
 Lord, deal not with us according to our sins. 
 
 Answer. 
 
 Neither reward us according to our iniquities. 
 
 The craft and subtlety are both the same. Will it not go 
 better thus ? Which the subtlety of the Devil, or the craft of 
 man worketh against us. 
 
 P. 62. Let there be a distinct letter for As it was in the 
 beginning ^c. ; thereby to make it an Answer, as all the others 
 are. 
 
 Leave out here Let us pray ; and so, on the page before. 
 
 F(yr the glory of Thy Narn^s sake is absurd. Leave out the 
 word sake. Some quarrel at righteously have deserved, and 
 would have it rightly. But, inasmuch as all our righteousness 
 is but filthiness, let the Church judge how it shall be read. 
 
 P. 63. The first word. Which, should be Who. 
 
 Vanquish and overcome is a vain and childish repetition. 
 
 Instead of the Prayer following, let a Kubrick be. To put in 
 such names as the Sovereign shall from time to time appoint, and 
 so to use it. 
 
 Next to that, thus : 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, from Whom proceedeth all 
 
Bishop Wren. 63 
 
 grace, and Who only workest great marvels, send down upon 
 tJie Pastors of Thy Church, the Bishops, and upon all that 
 stand charged with Cure of souls, and upon all Congregations 
 committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of Thy grace : 
 And that they may truly please Thee, pour upon them all the 
 continual dew of Thy Blessing. Grant this, Lord, for the 
 honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen, 
 After this, leave out the Kubrick, A Prayer of Chrysostome, 
 
 P. 64. Let the second Title be, For fair and seasonable 
 Weather. 
 
 Lord God, however for the sin of man Thou didst once 
 drown all the world except eight persons, yet afterward, of Thy 
 great mercy. Thou didst promise never to destroy it so again : 
 Upon Thy blessed pleasure, Lord, depend the gracious 
 influences of Heaven, and the goodness of every season comes 
 from Thee. We humbly beseech Thee therefore, that although 
 we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain 
 and of all unseasonable weather, yet upon our true repentance, 
 and for the merits of our Blessed Redeemer, Thou wouldst 
 send us weather so moderate and kindly, as that we may 
 receive the fruits of the earth in due season, and learn both &c. 
 
 P. 65. Make the Title of the first Prayer here. 
 
 In the time of any War or Tumult. 
 
 Almighty God, King of all kings, and Governor of all 
 the World, Whose power &c. . . . to glorify Thee, who art 
 the only &c. 
 
 In the second Prayer, thus : 
 
 Almighty God, Who in Thy wrath in the wilderness 
 didst send the first Plague upon Thine own people, for tlw 
 obstinacy qf their rebellion against Moses and Aaron; and 
 
64 Bishop Wren, 
 
 also, in the time of King David, didst slay &c. Have pity, 
 we humbly beseech Thee, on those parts of our land that now 
 are visited with sickness and mortality, that, like as Thou 
 didst then accept of an atonement, and didst command the 
 destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so it may &c. 
 
 In the third Prayer, we be tied and bound, put out tied; and 
 far the honour of Jesus Christ s sake, put out sake. 
 
 Fir weKrV"' P- 66. lu the first Prayer, thus : 
 
 Lord God, Who hadst justly humbled us, &c. 
 
 In the second Prayer, thus : 
 
 O most Merciful Father, Who of Thy gracious &c. 
 
 Let the Title of the third Prayer be, 
 
 A Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Invasion of Enemies. 
 
 Almighty God, Who art a strong Tower of &c. 
 
 Add here another Prayer with this Title, 
 A Thanksgiving for the Restoring of Public Peace : 
 Eternal Gob, our Heavenly Father, Who alone makest 
 men to be of one mind in an house, and art the GoB of peace and 
 unity in every Nation, we bless Thy Holy Name for this gracious 
 change among us, and that it hath pleased Thee with so high a 
 hand to appease those seditions and tumults, which by the subtlety 
 of the Devil were raised up and long fomented among us, and so 
 to subdue the oppositions of men of evil minds, as that, through 
 Thy grace, we may now assemble in peace and safety, to offer up 
 unto Thee this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, 
 
 SSrifom' P. 67. Lord God, Who hadst wounded us &c. 
 
 the Plague.) 
 
 . P. 68. Being now come unto the Epistles and Gospels, it 
 
Bishop Wren, 65 
 
 must here be well considered and determined in wliat Transla- 
 tion they shall now be read. For the Old Translation in very 
 many places is much amiss. The last Translation also was but 
 tumultuarily made, and is full of mistakes. 
 
 In the Title before them, leave out those words, at the 
 Celebration of the Lord's Supper and Holy Communion; inas- 
 much as there is direction elsewhere for the using of them 
 then ; and also they are to be used, though there be no Com- 
 munion. 
 
 Let the Title for the First Collect be, 
 
 The First Sunday for the Coming of Christy called Advent ; 
 and let it be added, This Collect to he used every day after ^ until 
 Christmas Bay. 
 
 P. 69. The Second Sunday for the Coming of Christ : 
 Blessed Lord, Who hast caused all &c. 
 
 Accordingly change the Title of all the rest. 
 
 P. 72. The Fourth Sunday for the Coming of Christ, 
 thus : by our sins we were sorely hindered, Thy bountiful grace 
 and mercy &c. 
 
 With Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, 
 world without end. Amen. 
 
 P. 73. On the Birth of Christ, called Christmas Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who hast given us Thy only begotten Son, 
 to take our nature upon Him, and as at this time to be born 
 of a pure Virgin, Grant &c. 
 
 It cannot be said this day, because it is to be used till 
 New Year's Day, and after. 
 
 Who liveth and r eigne th with Thee and the Holy Ghost, 
 ever one Gov, world without end. Amen. 
 K 
 
66 Bishop Wren. 
 
 P. 75. On St. Stephen's Day : 
 
 Who prayed for his Persecutors to Thee, Who livest and 
 reignest with the Father and the Holt Ghost, ever one Gob^ 
 world without end. Amen. 
 
 P. 77. On Innocents' Day : 
 
 For mortify and kill read it mortify, we beseech Thee, all 
 vices in us, ^c. 
 
 P. 78. On the Sunday after Christmas. For this day, 
 and for Christmas Day, let it be well weighed which is most 
 proper to say, to take our nature upon Him^ or rather, to take our 
 nature unto Him; for that is iTnXafxpdvea-daL, assumere, the 
 Manhood into God. 
 
 The first half of this Gospel should, by former Directions, 
 be omitted, and is to begin at the 18th verse. 
 
 P. 80. On the Circumcision of Christ. 
 
 Almighty God, Who madest Thy Blessed Son &c. . . . 
 from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things &c. 
 
 After that Gospel, the Eubrick to be thus : If between the 
 Circumcision and the Manifesting of Christ unto the Gentiles, 
 called the Epiphany, there be a Sunday, then shall be used ^c. 
 
 Accordingly, change the word Epiphany, for the Day of it, 
 as is above said. 
 
 P. 82. The Manifesting of Christ unto the Gentiles. 
 God, Who by the leading of a star didst &c. . . through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 P. 84. On the First Sunday after the Manifesting of 
 Christ unto the Gentiles. 
 
Bishop Wren. 67 
 
 The beginning of that Gospel is but brokenly set down 
 here. Let it begin at the 41st verse. Now His parents went ^c. 
 
 P. 85. On the Second Sunday. 
 
 . . . . GoD^ Who doest govern all things in heaven and 
 earth, mercifully hear the supplications of Thy people, and 
 grant us Thy peace all the days of our life, through Jestis 
 Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 On the Fourth Sunday. 
 
 God, Who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many 
 and great dangers, that for man's frailness, we cannot alway 
 stand in that integrity we ought to do ; Grant to us the health 
 &c. . . . and overcome, through Jestjs Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 Touching the Sundays called Septuagesima, Sexagesima, 
 and Quinquagesima, hath enough been said. Vide page 53. 
 
 On the Third Sunday before Lent. 
 
 Our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the 
 Holy Geost, ever One God^ world without end. Amen. 
 
 On the Sunday next before Lent. 
 
 For Thine only Son's sake^ Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 That Collect for the First Day of Lent. 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, Who hatest nothing that 
 Thou hast made, &c. 
 
 Let it be appointed to be read every day, with the other 
 Collects for the day, until Good Friday. 
 
 On the First Sunday in Lent. 
 
 Lord, Who for our sakes didst fast &c. . . . to Thy 
 honour and glory. Who livest and reignest with the Father 
 and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen. 
 
68 Bishop Wren. 
 
 On the Second Sunday in Lent. 
 
 Almighty God, Who doest see that we have no &c. . . . 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. 
 
 On the Sunday next before Easter. 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, Who of Thy tender &c. 
 
 The Gospel for this day is made overlong. Bather, let the 
 xxvi Chapter of St. Matthew (which is the first half of it) be 
 appointed to be the Second Lesson, Proper for this Sunday. 
 
 Let it be considered, if on the Thursday before Easter in 
 our Church, where the King observes Christ's washing of Feet, 
 the Gospel should not rather be Joan xiii, \. 
 
 On Good Friday. 
 
 In the middle Collect: which we offer before Thee for all 
 estates of men in Thy Holy Church, that every member of the 
 same, in their Christian vocation and ministry, may truly and 
 godly serve Thee, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 
 
 Now the Gospel for Good Friday was the Second Lesson in 
 A° 1648.* It will fall out so again in other years. A Kubrick 
 therefore would now be put, as a Rule, How either the Lesson 
 or the Gospel shall be changed, when it so happeneth. 
 
 On Easter Day. 
 
 Almighty G()d, Who through Thy only begotten Son Jesus 
 Christ hast subdued death, and opened unto us the gate of 
 everlasting life, we humbly beseech Thee &c. 
 
 The like again on Easter Monday. 
 
 That Collect for Easter Tuesday, Almighty Father, Who 
 hast given Thine only Son to die &c. would be reserved for the 
 Sunday after Easter, and the Collect for Easter Day to serve 
 for all this week. 
 
 * See p. 50. 
 
Bishop Wren, 69 
 
 The Gospel for the First Sunday after Easter was the 
 Second Lesson for that Day, in A° 1654, A Eule therefore 
 now to be set, what the alteration shall be, if it so fall again. 
 
 On the Second Sunday after Easter. 
 
 Almighty God, Who hast given Thine only Son . . . 
 most holy life, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 On the Third and Fourth Sundays after Easter. 
 Let it be Who^ instead of Which; and through Jesus Christ 
 our Lord, Amen. 
 
 On the Sunday after Ascension. 
 
 God, the King of Glory, Who hast exalted Thine only 
 Son Jesus Christ with great &c. 
 
 Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, 
 ever one Gob, world without end. Amen. 
 
 On Whitsun Day. 
 
 God, Who as upon this Feast didst teach ^c. Putting it 
 thus, it will be fit for all the week after. 
 
 On Trinity Sunday. 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast given unto us 
 Thy servants grace, by the &c. : . . . we beseech Thee 
 to keep us steadfast in this faith, and evermore to defend us from 
 all adversity. Who livest and reignest ever One God, world 
 without end. Amen. 
 . As it is in our Book, it is somewhat incongruous. 
 
 On the Second Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 Grant this, Heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, 
 our Lord. Ame7i. 
 
70 Bishop Wren. 
 
 On the Fourth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 This Gospel was the Second Lesson for the same Day, in 
 A° 1651, June 22. Let Order now be set down about it. 
 
 On the Fifth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 . . . . governance, that Thy Church may joyfully serve 
 Thee &c. 
 
 On the Sixth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 God, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such 
 good things as pass &c. 
 
 On the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. 
 Gob, the Lord of all power and might, and the author 
 and giver of all good things. 
 
 On the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 . . . . their petitions by the inspiration of Thy grace^ 
 make them such as shall ever please Thee, through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 On the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 God, Who declarest Thy Almighty power most &c. 
 
 On the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, Who art always more ready 
 to hear than we to pray, and delightest to give more than we 
 either deserve or desire, pour down upon us &c. 
 
 On the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 . . . . pity cleanse, and defend Thy Church ; and &c. 
 
 On the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity. 
 God, our refuge and strength, the author of all godli- 
 ness, be pleased to hear the devout prayers of Thy Church &c. 
 
Bishop Wren, 71 
 
 On the Twenty -fourth Sunday after Trinity. 
 
 LoKD, we beseech Thee, grant Thy people Absolution from 
 all their offences, that, through Thy bountiful goodness, we 
 may be delivered from the bands of all those sins that we have 
 committed against Thee. Grant this, we beseech Thee, for 
 Jestts Csrists sake our Lord. Amen. 
 
 The Eubrick that stands before St. Andrew's Day to be 
 rectified, as hath already been advised. 
 
 On St. Andrew's Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who gavest such grace unto Thy holy 
 Apostle Andrew, that he &c. 
 
 On St. Thomas' Day. 
 
 Almighty and everliving God, Who for the more confirma- 
 tion of the faith &c. 
 
 . . . . and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory 
 now and for ever. Amen. 
 
 On the Conversion of St. Paul. 
 
 God, Who hast taught all the world &c. 
 
 The Presenting of Cerist in the Temple^ called The Purifi- 
 cation. 
 
 There wants an Epistle. Let it be Malachi iii, to the 
 6th verse. 
 
 The Gospel also would be set down, unto the end of the 
 40th verse. 
 
 On St. Matthias' Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who into the place of the Traitor Judas 
 didst choose &c. 
 
72 Bishop Wren. 
 
 The Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary. 
 . . . . the glory of His Resurrection, for the merits of 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 On St. Mark's Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who hast instructed Thy holy Church with 
 the heavenly doctrine of Thy holy Evangelist Mark, give us 
 grace &c. 
 
 On St. Barnaby the Apostle. 
 
 Lord Almighty, Who didst endue Thy holy Apostle 
 Barnabas with singular &c. 
 
 On St. Peier's Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who by Thy Son Jesus Christ gavest unto 
 Thy holy Apostle Peter many excellent gifts, and commandedst 
 him earnestly to feed Thy flock,' make, we beseech Thee, the 
 Bishops, the Pastors of Thy Church among us, and all other 
 Ministers, diligently to preach Thy Holy Word, and the people 
 obediently to follow the same, that they may all in their 
 several callings receive the crown of everlasting Glory; 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 On St. Bartholomew's Day. 
 
 . . . . Who gavest grace to Thy holy Apostle Bar- 
 tholomew truly to believe and to preach Thy Word, Grant, 
 we beseech Thee, unto the Church, to love that Gospel which 
 he believed, and faithfully to preach the same, through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 On St. Matthew's Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who by Thy blessed Son didst call Thy 
 holy Evangelist Matthew from the receipt of custom to be an 
 Apostle, Grant us grace to forsake all covetous desires and 
 
Bishop Wren. 73 
 
 inordinate love of riches, and to follow Thy Son Jesus Christ, 
 Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever 
 one GoDy world without end. Amen. 
 
 On St. Michael. 
 
 Everlasting God, Who hast ordained the Services of all 
 Angels and men &c. 
 
 On St. Luke's Bay. 
 
 Almighty God, Who calledst Luke the physician, whose 
 praise is in the Gospel, to be a physician of the soul. May it 
 please Thee by Sfc. 
 
 On St. Simon and Jude. 
 
 Almighty God, Who hast built Thy Church upon the 
 foundation of the &c. 
 
 On All Saints' Day. 
 
 Almighty God, Who hast knit together Thine Elect in one 
 Communion and Fellowship, in the mystical body of Thy Son 
 Christ our Lord, Grant us grace so to follow Thy Saints in all 
 virtuous and godly living, that we &c. 
 
 To say holy Saints is a very improper speech. 
 
74 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Being now come to the Communion Service, now I go by 
 the Pages again, as they are numbered in my book. Only by 
 a mistake, the 15th Page is set twice. 
 
 Page 1 is wholly taken up with the Kubrick, consisting of 
 four Paragraphs.* 
 
 In the first Paragraph, those words, or immediately after^ 
 would now be left out ; because now in very few Parish 
 Churches is there any space at all given between the Morning 
 Prayer and the Communion Service. 
 
 The third Paragraph is so set down as that it may be a 
 snare both to the Minister and to the People. If it shall be 
 thought fit, it may go better thus : Until he know them to be 
 reconciled ; Or if any one of them refuse to be, until he hath 
 certified his Ordinary thereof by the Churchwardens or by himself 
 (which shall be don^ without delay), and have directions from him 
 what to do in that case. 
 
 In the fourth Paragraph, those words, or in the Chancel^ 
 where Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer be appointed to be 
 said, are very ambiguous. Many Churches now have no 
 Chancels. I And in the most that have, though the desk for 
 reading the Prayers doth stand in the body of the Church, 
 yet they use to go into the Chancel to receive the Communion. 
 Let it therefore be expressly here set down what is intended, 
 still keeping the use of the Chancels, where it may well be 
 done. But leave nothing ambiguous. 
 
 And the Priest, standing at the North of the Table, the 
 people all kneeling, shall begin with the Lokd's Prayer, Our 
 Fateer, Who art in ^c. 
 
 Page 2. In the First Collect, through Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. 
 
 * Page 220 of the Volume. f See page bo, line 1. 
 
Bishop Wren. lb 
 
 In tlie Eubrick there, tlius : 
 
 Then the Priest, turning his face towards the people^ shall 
 rehearse distinctly all the Ten Commandments &c. 
 
 Page 4. In that Rubrick, thus : 
 • Then the Priest^ at the Holy Table, where he stood at first, 
 leaving out the words, Let us pray ; or else, spying Let us pray 
 for our Lord the King, shall say one of these following Collects, 
 and after it shall say tJie Collect for the day. 
 
 In that Collect for the King, thus : 
 
 Have mercy upon Thy Church, and so rule the heart of 
 Thy servant, Charles, our King, that he, knowing whose minister 
 he is &c. 
 
 That the word Governor makes but a diminution, and that 
 ill use hath been made of it in this rebellious age, to take 
 upon them to judge how he governed, is too well known.* The 
 word chosen also hath been pretended among the people, for 
 their rebellion, that they are the choosers and makers of Kings. 
 
 Page 5. Betwixt these two Collects, set Or ; and there 
 leave out the word Governor also. 
 
 Add to those Kubricks, And when the Epistle is finished, he 
 shall say. So endeth the Epistle ; and when the Gospel, So endeth 
 the holy Gospel. 
 
 Then shall be rehearsed by him and them all, The Belief, 
 called the Nicene Creed. 
 
 Page 6. In the third line, it should be, ^ . . and the 
 »Son, is together worshipped and glorified. 
 
 The first Kubrick there to be thus : 
 
 After the Creed, immediately shall the Sermon begin; or, 
 if there be no Sermon, one of the Homilies already set forth, 
 
 * See above, p. 61. 
 
76 
 
 Bishop Wren. 
 
 or hereafter to be set forth by Authority ^ shall he read by the 
 Minister^ out of the Pulpit, 
 
 After such Sermon or Homily, the Minister shall return 
 again to the Table^ and turning toward the people, shall declare 
 unto them what Holy Days and Fasting Days will be in that 
 week following. He shall also then publish the Banns for 
 Matrimony, and signify the contents of such Briefs as are 
 brought to the Parish, for Collections. And then he shall say, 
 Hear now the Monitions of the Holy Ghost, as it -is Tcritten, 
 naming the Chapter and Verse whence it is taken, and reading 
 one or more, as he shall think meet in his discretion. 
 
 These Sentences now are all the same here that were before, 
 but the order of their standing is a little altered ; to this 
 purpose, that as they are now ordered, the seven that stand 
 first will appear to be in general for all kind of Charitable 
 Gifts ; the seven next to tend particularly to that which they 
 called Prosphora in the Primitive Church, that is a freewill 
 Offering unto God ; and the six last, to be especially for the 
 Eleemosyna, that is, our Alms Deeds to the Poor. Thus then 
 set them : 
 
 Matt. 
 
 V, 
 
 16. 
 
 1 Tim. 
 
 vi. 
 
 6. 
 
 Hebr. 
 
 xiii. 
 
 16. 
 
 1 Cor. 
 
 ix. 
 
 11. 
 
 Gal. 
 
 vi, 
 
 6. 
 
 1 Joan. 
 
 iii, 
 
 17. 
 
 Tobit 
 
 iv. 
 
 7. 
 
 Matt. 
 
 vi, 19. 
 
 Matt. 
 
 vii, 21. 
 
 1 Tim. 
 
 vi, 17. 
 
 Hebr. 
 
 vi, 10. 
 
 Matt. 
 
 vii, 12. 
 
 1 Cor. 
 
 ix, 7. 
 
 1 Cor. 
 
 ix, 13. 
 
 2 Cor. 
 
 ix, 6. 
 
 Gal. 
 
 vi, 10. 
 
 Luke 
 
 xix, 8. 
 
 Psal. 
 
 xli, 1. 
 
 Prov. 
 
 xix, 17. 
 
 Tobit 
 
 iv, 8. 
 
 
 
 But let the words in every Sentence be set again down at 
 large, as they were before, and the texts in the margin. 
 
 Page 8. Now divide this Kubrick, and set it thus : 
 
 If any person have in his heart a freewill qferingfor God, 
 
Bishop Wren. 11 
 
 let them cause it to be delivered in private to the Minister^ with 
 their other accustomed Offerings^ such as are their due from them. 
 
 As for the Devotion of the People to the Poor^ the Church 
 Wardens, or some appointed hy them, shall presently after the 
 Sentences go about and gather it, and then shall bring it unto the 
 Minister, hy him to be placed on the Holy Table, till the Divine 
 Service be finished, and then to be put into the Poor Men^s box, 
 or to be presently given, as need shall be. 
 
 After the Curate hath pronounced such of the Sentences as he 
 shall choose, he shall say. 
 
 Let us pray for the whole state &c. 
 
 Almighty and everliving God, Who by Thy &c. 
 
 But now it is to be well marked, what a proposal is made 
 unto God in the beginning of this Prayer. It is said for two 
 things : first, to pray for all ; and then, to give thanks for all. 
 So they begin to pray, and go on with it throughout ; but that 
 done, there's an end, and no Thanksgiving. Of all right, it 
 would now be added again. For in the Primitive Church, they 
 ever had here a Commemoration, and Thanksgiving for the 
 Saints. It was also here in this Prayer in Edward vi days. 
 But in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth, that the Vulgar 
 might not think they did either pray to the Dead or for the 
 Dead, they chopped off the end of this Prayer, never thinking 
 of the proposal made in the beginning of it. Thanks be to 
 God, there can be no pretence at all now, why it should not 
 be restored. 
 
 But if not, let not God be flouted to His face by the 
 Church, but leave out those words at first, and to give thanks. 
 
 Page 9. At the second line, thus : 
 
 Give grace, heavenly Father, unto the Pastors of the 
 
78 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Churchy the Bishops, and unto all other that are charged with the 
 cure of souls, that they may &c. 
 
 At the seventh line, leave out those words, and specially to 
 this Congregation here present ; the Prayer being ordained for 
 the whole estate of Christ's Church. And also, when it is 
 used in small families, and at Communions for the Sick, or 
 otherwise, those words are not so proper. 
 
 Now for that Exhortation, it would be well considered, 
 whether it shall not now be quite left out, for divers reasons. 
 
 1. If the Parishioners do not receive as often as they 
 ought by Law, they are liable to censure for neglecting. 
 
 2. To stand by, as gazers and lookers on, is now wholly 
 out of use in all Parishes. And the Not- Communicants 
 generally do use to depart, without bidding. 
 
 3. Where all that would be Communicants do not at the 
 beginning of this Service come up into the Chancel, (which in 
 most places they do not,) the Minister knows not well whether 
 he shall have few Communicants, or no. 
 
 4. It contradicts the former Kubrick made for certifying 
 of their Names that would communicate, and now lets them 
 know, they shall presently be admitted if they will come ; so 
 that there was no need to certify their names. 
 
 The Eubrick therefore may be thus : 
 
 Warning shall he duly given for every Communion by the 
 Minister upon the Sunday before, next after the Nicene Creed, at 
 Morning Prayers. And then, if by their not having come to him 
 to signify their Names, he do perceive too much negligence in them, 
 he may take occasion in his Sermon or at reading the Homily, to 
 make some use of this Exhortation. 
 
 But surely it will be better to omit both it and this 
 Kubrick ; and therefore 1 do not now point at some slips in it. 
 
Bishop Wren. 79 
 
 Page 11. Supposing the foregoing Exhortation to be quite 
 left out, this Rubrick would now be thus : 
 
 When there is to be a Communion^ the Curate shall give 
 warning thereof at Morning Prayer on the Sunday before^ next 
 after the Nicene Greedy and shall then^ before he proceed to the 
 Sentence&j read this Exhortation following : Dearly Beloved &c. 
 
 Page 12. That Kubrick to be thus : 
 
 The Priest, having ended the Prayer for the Militant Church, 
 shall then begin this Exhortation following : Dearly Beloved in 
 the Lord, ye &c. 
 
 Page 13. At the 17th line, to avoid unnecessary conten- 
 tion, put it thus, .... the Devil enter into you, as he 
 entered into Judas after the sop, and fiU you &c. 
 
 Page 14. At the first line, put those words thus : ' 
 
 He hath to our great and endless comfort instituted and 
 ordained these holy mysteries ybr pledges of His love, andybr a 
 continual remembrance of Him who died for us. To Him 
 therefore &c. 
 
 Ibid. The first Kubrick to be thus : 
 
 Then shall the Priest say unto them that are come together 
 for the Communion. 
 
 You now truly and earnestly repenting you of your sins, and 
 being in love and charity with all men, intending by GoD'S 
 assistance to lead a new life, and to follow the Commandments 
 of God, and to walk from henceforth in His holy ways, shall 
 receive this holy Sacrament to your comfort. Make therefore, 
 your humble confession unto Almighty God, all meekly kneel- 
 ing before Him. 
 
 Ibid. Now the second Kubrick to be thus : 
 
 Then shall this General Confession be made in the name of 
 
80 Bishop Wren. 
 
 all present^ either by one of them or by one of the Ministers, 
 or by the Priest himself, all humbly kneeling. 
 
 Ibid. In the second line of that Confession let it be, 
 Maker of all the world, Judge of all men &c. 
 
 Page 15. Add here the Chapter and Verse to these 
 Scriptures. 
 
 After those sentences of Scripture, let the Kubrick be. The 
 Priest standing again at the Table, shall proceed and say, 
 
 Lift up your hearts. 
 
 But at those words in the last line, It is very meet, right, 
 and &c., he must mark that on Trinity Sunday the words. Holy 
 Father, must be left out. 
 
 ^TeTce?" Page 16. In the fifth line read it, 
 
 Whereby we have been brought out of darkness &c. 
 
 The next Kubrick to be thus : Upon Trinity Sunday and 
 six days after, 
 
 . . . . all places, give thanks unto Thee, Lord, 
 Almighty and everlasting GtOd, Who art One God and One 
 Lord, and yet not One only Person, but Three Persons in One 
 Divine Substance. For that &c. 
 
 Now here wants a Proper Preface for the Presenting of 
 Christ in the Temple, being among us so great a Festival. 
 
 The last Kubrick on that Page would be thus : Here shall 
 the Bread and Wine, which is provided for that Communion, be 
 in a decent manner presented by the Church Wardens, or some 
 other for them, to the Priest, who shall with du^ reverence set as 
 much thereof, in both kinds, as he shall conceive there will be then 
 use of upon the Loed'S Board, and the rest to remain, ready at 
 hand by him, if need should be of it. And then he kneeling 
 
Bishop Wren. 81 
 
 down, before the Table^ shall in the name of all present^ say, 
 We do not presume to come to &c. 
 
 Page 17. The first Rubrick to be thus : 
 
 Then the Priest standing before the Table shall so order and 
 
 set the Bread and the Wine that, while he is pronouncing the 
 
 following Collect, he may readily take the Bread and break it, 
 
 and also take the Cup, to pour into it (if he pour it not before), 
 
 and then h£ shall say, 
 
 Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Who of Thy tender 
 mercy didst give. 
 
 Ibidem. At the fifteenth line let it be, . . . according 
 to Thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy Institution, for a 
 remembrance of Him by shewing His Death and Passion, may 
 be partakers of His most blessed Body &c. 
 
 This would be thus, P, because St. Paul's word is 
 
 KarayyeAAcTe 1 Cor. xi, 26. And 2°, because €ts t^v l/^iji/ di/a/AVi}o-«K 
 
 being spoken by Christ, does most properly signify. To put 
 Me in mind of you ; Christ of us, and not us in mind of 
 Christ. For in that we do this, it appears we are mindful of 
 Him. It is not done therefore only to put ourselves in mind 
 of Him. 
 
 At the words, " took bread, and when He had given thanks 
 He brake it, and gave it," the Priest shall take the Bread, and 
 ■ break it. And also, at " took the Cup," the Priest shall take 
 it into his hand, and pour into it, if he have not filled it ready 
 before. And if afterwards there prove to be use for any more 
 Bread or Wine than that of which he brake and blessed at 
 first, he shall use the very Form, and say over the words 
 audibly, before he gives it. 
 
 Ibidem. There is twice, " Do this in remembrance of 
 
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 Me ;" but, to take away all exception, let it be in both. Do 
 this /or a remembrance of Me. 
 
 The last Rubrick to be thus : 
 
 . . . . and next deliver it in both kinds to other 
 Ministers, (if any be there present, that they may help the 
 chief Minister), and after, to the People, into the hand of every 
 one, kneeling. And when he taketh the Bread himself, and 
 when he delivereth it to any otJier, he shall saj', . . . which 
 was given for me {or thee) preserve my {or thy) body and soul 
 into everlasting Life. 
 
 Answer, by the Receiver, Amen. 
 
 This would be expressly put thus, because it is a proper 
 prayer, and of blessing ; whereby it is a sufficient reason why 
 every one should kneel when they receive. The Church of 
 Rome, to gain some colour to their fancy of Transubstantiation, 
 next after these words, " The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ," 
 put in Amen there. Now though we approve not of that, 
 yet there is no reason why it should be quite omitted. 
 
 In the words there following, ^And take and eat this,' that 
 first word. And, is but the Kubrick to tell the Priest, that he 
 must say this sentence also, but not to say that word. This 
 was added at the beginning of Queen Elizabeth, but the words 
 hereof (for they then were put in with more heat than head) 
 would of right be thus : 
 
 Take and eat this for a remembrance of CePiIST, Who died 
 for thee ; and feed on Him in thy heart by faith with thanks- 
 giving. 
 
 Page 18. The first Kubrick to be thus : 
 The Minister, when he taketh the Cup himself, or when he 
 delivereth it to any one, shall say. The Blood of our Lord Jesus 
 
Bishop Wren, 83 
 
 Christ which was shed/br me (or theej preserve my (or t\\j) 
 body and soul into everlasting Life. 
 Answer^ Amen. 
 
 Priest, Drink this for a remembrance of Christ, Whose 
 Blood was shed for thee, and be thankful. 
 
 Yet let it now be well weighed, whether it shall go so still, 
 or be, and give Him thanks. For the Latin out of which it was 
 turned for us, was et gratias age. Also the verb in Greek, 
 evxa/oto-Trjcrat, from which this Sacrament is rightly called the 
 Eucharist, signifies not only gratum esse, to be thankful, but 
 also gratias agere, to give thanks. 
 
 Ibidem. The next Kubrick to be thus : 
 
 When the Distribution is ended, the Priest, standing at the 
 
 Table as he did at first, shall begin the Lord's Prayer, all the 
 
 people devoutly saying it with him. And here shall be added, 
 For Thine is the kingdom &c. 
 
 Ibidem. In the Second Prayer put it thus : 
 . . . . heartily thank Thee, for that Thou hast vouch- 
 safed to feed us, who of Thy Grace have received these holy 
 mysteries from Thee, with the spiritual food of the most 
 precious body and blood of Thy Son &c. 
 
 Page 19. . . . Thou only, Christ, with the most 
 Holy, Eternal, and Ever Blessed Spirit, art most high in the 
 glory of God the Father. Amen. 
 
 The Kubrick, which follows here, after the Blessing, to 
 be thus : 
 
 These Collects following, one or more of them, at the discre- 
 tion of the Minister, are to be used whether there be any Com- 
 munion or no, and are to be put in at the end of Morning 
 
84 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Prayer J or Evening Prayer, next before the Blessing be given. 
 
 Page 20. In the first of these Collects, 
 
 . . . through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 In the two last of these Collects, 
 
 Who knowest our necessities : and 
 
 Who hast promised to hear &c. 
 
 Page 21. Here is a great Rubrick consisting of three 
 Paragraphs. 
 
 The foremost whereof would be divided. For the latter 
 half of it (which was put in at first as a bar against Private 
 Masses), is now become needless and useless. Yet if they will 
 have it stand, let it be expressly set down, what is a good 
 Number. Let it also be well considered, whether it be not 
 very expedient now, to add a Caution against an overgreat 
 number ; in some Churches there coming about Easter many 
 hundreds upon one day. 
 
 By ttis Second Paragraph it is presumed that in Cathedrals 
 and Collegiate Churches there is a Communion every Sunday. 
 But that Canon not having been observed for very many years, 
 it is fit that this be rectified, and that what Order shall herein 
 be held, be now expressed. 
 
 Ibidem in the Bread and Wine, it shall sufiice 
 
 that the Bread, where it is not of fine Wafer, pure, and without 
 any figure or print, be such as is usual to be eaten &c. 
 
 This would be put thus, because in some places, (at West- 
 minster, if I remember aright, and elsewhere) plain Wafers 
 have ever been used. 
 
 Ibidem. What remaineth of the Bread of any Loaf or 
 Wafer that was broken for the use of the Communion, or of the 
 Wins that was poured out, or had the Benediction, the Curate 
 
Bishop Wren. 85 
 
 shall^ after the Service is ended^ take some of the Communicants 
 to him, there to eat and drink the same. But all the rest in both 
 kindSj the Curate shall have to his own use. 
 
 As this was set down before, much outcry was made 
 against it. 
 
 Page 22. Make another Paragraph of it, at the second 
 line, and put it thus : * 
 
 In Easter Week yearly, every Parishioner, or one for him, 
 shall reckon with the Minister or his Deputy, and shall pay to 
 him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due ; as then and 
 at that time to be paid for the year past, unless they have paid 
 for the same before. 
 
 Ibidem. At the bottom of this first Kubrick for Baptism, 
 set it thus : 
 
 Nevertheless, Children may at all times be baptized at home, if 
 necessity so require ; and at the Church, on any other days. 
 
 In the next Kubrick, thus : 
 
 The Godfathers and Godmothers (that is to say, for a Male 
 
 Child, two Godfathers and one Godmother, and no more ; and 
 
 for a Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers, and other 
 
 people, with the Child or Children must be ready at the Font, 
 
 immediately after the Second Lesson fc. 
 
86. Bishop Wren. 
 
 Page 23. In the first Rubrick, thus : 
 
 The Priest shall first ask, whether the Child (or, if there be 
 more, whether any of them) hath been baptized already. 
 
 Ibidem. After the Preface, when the Priest sayeth, Let us 
 pray, all the Congregation^ shall kneel down. 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, Who of Thy great &c. 
 
 Page 24. The first Eubrick thus : 
 
 Then shall they all stand up, and the Priest shall say. In the 
 Exhortation after the Gospel, thus : 
 
 . . . . that He commanded the Children to be brought 
 unto Him, expressly declaring, that though but Children, yet the 
 Kingdom of God belonged unto them; that He blamed His own 
 Disciples that would then have kept them from Him ; that He 
 exhorteth all men, &c. 
 
 Page 25. linea prima, thus : 
 
 . . For He embraced them in His arms, as 
 admitting them into His Church, whereof Himself was the Head, 
 (for which end He did afterwards institute this Sacrament of 
 Baptism), He laid His hands upon them, and blessed them. 
 
 Page 26. In the first line, thus : 
 
 . . . . their Sureties, until they come of age to take it 
 upon themselves, that they will forsake the Devil and all his 
 works, and constantly believe God's holy Word, and obediently 
 keep His Commandments. Answer me therefore, 
 
 Doest thou forsake the Devil &c. 
 
 The Sureties, in the Child's name, to answer, 
 
 I forsake them all. 
 
 Page 27. At the 16th line, thus : 
 
 . . . . all nations, and baptize them in the Name of 
 
Bishop Wren. 87 
 
 tlie Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Kegard, 
 we beseech Thee, the supplications of Thy Churchy and grant 
 that all Thy servants (br, if but one^ this Thy servant) which 
 shall be baptized &c. 
 
 Ibidem. In the first Kubrick, thus : 
 
 Then shall the Priest take every Child in his hands ; and 
 if they certify him that the Child is strong enough^ asking the 
 Name, and audibly naming it, he shall dip it in the water, 
 discreetly and 7oarily, and shall say, 
 
 K I baptize thee in the Name &c. 
 
 In the next Kubrick, thus : 
 
 But if the Child be weak, it shall be sufficient to pour water 
 on the forehead, to run upon the face of it, and to say ^c. 
 
 In the next Kubrick, thus : 
 
 Then the Priest shall make a Cross on the Child's forehead, 
 after that he hath said, 
 
 Having now baptized this Child into Cerist, and thereby 
 received it into Christ s Church, and the Congregation of His 
 flock, we do sign it with the sign of the Cross, (here delivering 
 back the Child) in token that hereafter he (or she) shall not be 
 ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified against sin, 
 the world, and the Devil, and to continue Christ's spiritual 
 soldier and faithful servant unto his (or her) life's end. 
 
 As this went before, {manfully to fight under His banner), 
 it ofiended many, because it appertains not naturally to the 
 female sex. The last Archbishop varied from it, baptizing the 
 Princess Koyal.* 
 
 Add also this Kubrick : 
 
 If there be more Children than one, both the Baptism itself, 
 and this Sentence, shall be repeated upon every one. 
 
 * "The Lady Mary, Princess," born November 4th, 1631, while Laud was Bishop 
 
 of Loudon. 
 
88 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Ibid. The first Kubrick here, to be thus : 
 
 After all the Children are baptized and delivered to their ■ 
 friends^ the Priest shall say, 
 
 Seeing now, Dearly Beloved, tliat these Children are re- 
 generate, and graffed into the body of Christ's Church, let u» 
 give thanks &c. 
 
 And here, to * Our Father, Who art in Heaven,' let be 
 added, 'for Thine is the kingdom ' <^c., to be said with the Priest 
 by all present. 
 
 In that Prayer, thus : 
 
 . . . . and to incorporate him (her, or them) into Thy 
 
 Holy Church. And humbly we beseech Thee &c 
 
 with the Eesidue of Thy Holy Church, he may be inheritor of 
 Thy everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 That last Kubrick, to be thus : 
 
 Last of all, the Priest, directing his speech particularly unto 
 the Godfathers and Godmothers, shall say. 
 
 For as much as these Children severally have coven/inted, 
 and by you, their Sureties, promised to forsake the Devil &c. 
 
 Page 29. In the seventh line, 
 
 . . . . all other things which a Christian ought to 
 know, .... leaving out the word, man. 
 
 At the end of the Exhortation, this Kubrick to be set : 
 
 // Baptism at any time be administered not in the Church, or 
 there, nx>t in the time of the Divine Service, then let the close of 
 all here be with the Blessing, The Grace of our Lord Jesus ^c; 
 the Priest always adding thus. In the Name of Christ and of 
 His Church, I charge you, the Sureties, to see to it carefully that 
 these Children be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed as 
 soon as they can say &c. 
 
Bishop Wren. 89 
 
 Then this Rubrick to follow : 
 
 For which purpose, the Arch-Bishops and Bishops are re- 
 quired, by themselves or some other Bishop in their stead, once in 
 every third year at the furthest, to solemnize Confirmation through 
 their Dioceses : And all the time between, to cause their Clergy to 
 be diligent and faithful in Catechizing, according to this Book, 
 and to the Canon of the Church in that behalf 
 
 That last Rubrick on this page to go thus : 
 
 All Ministers, in every place where they are to officiate, shall, 
 in their exhortations to the People, often admonish them, that they 
 defer not to have their Children baptized any longer than the first 
 or the second Sunday, or other Holy day falling between, next 
 after the birth of their Children, unless upon a great <f'c. 
 
 Page 30. At the end of the first Rubrick, leave out these 
 words, ' Dip it in water, or.' 
 
 In the next Rubrick, thus : 
 
 . . . . do afterwards live, it is hereby required that it 
 be brought on a Sunday or Holyday, at the time of Divine 
 Service, into the Parish Church. And if within three months it 
 be not brought, the Church Wardens are hereby required to present 
 unto the Ordinary the Parents or Guardians in whom the default 
 lies : to this intent, that (^c. 
 
 If this may thus be set, nothing will better provide against 
 Private Baptism than this. 
 
 Ibid. Let a Rubrick at the bottom be. 
 To every one of these Questions shall Answers be directly 
 given by those that bring the Child, as far as they know. 
 
 Page 31. . . . concerning the Baptizing of this Child, 
 who, being born in original sin and in the wrath of God, by 
 
90 Bishop Wren. 
 
 the laver of Regeneration in Baptism katk been received into 
 the number of the Children of God, and of the Heirs of &c. 
 
 Page 32. The first Kubrick, thus : 
 
 Here shall they all kneel down^ , and shall say with the 
 Minister^ Our Fathee, Who art in Heaven &c., adding also, 
 for Thine is the kingdom ^c. 
 
 Then, standing up again, the Priest shall demand the name 
 of the Child &c. 
 
 Page 33. The same mutations and additions to be made 
 here at this Exhortation, as are set down before, in the Public 
 Baptism.* 
 
 Page 35. First, that the Children being now come to some 
 years of discretion, and Imohig been taught what their God- 
 fathers &c. 
 
 In the twelfth line, . . . against all the temptations of 
 sin, and &c. 
 
 In the eighteenth line, . . . the Church in times past, 
 by which Confirmation was m^dinarily ministered to them that 
 were of grown age, that they being instructed &c. 
 
 Then let that Paragraph be divided, and set thus : 
 And that none may think that any detriment shall come to 
 Children by deferring their Confirmation till years of some 
 understanding in them, let them know for a truth that it is 
 certain by God's Word &c. 
 
 The following Title to be this : 
 
 The Catechism, that is to say, A Form to be daily used and 
 cofitinued^ in public and private, for the first Institution of Chil- 
 
 * See page 86. 
 
Bishop Wren. 91 
 
 dren^ to instruct them in the Principles of Christian Religion; 
 and therefore to be learned by every one, before they be brought 
 to be confirmed by the Bishop. 
 
 Page 36. The Title here and throughout to be, 
 The Institution of Children, called the Catechism. 
 
 m the Belief, 
 
 . . . . His only Son our Lokd, Who was conceived. 
 
 Page 39. In the midst of that Second Answer, thus : 
 . . . . to all my betters. All which I do also acknow- 
 ledge to be a part of my duty towards God, in Whose place they 
 are. Also to hurt nobody &c. 
 
 This is requisite to be thus put in, inasmuch as the Fifth 
 Commandment is indeed a branch of that which Christ calls 
 the First Great Commandment. And it hath been lately 
 taught, that they were indeed by God's Commandment obliged 
 to the King, but yet only as by their Duty to their Neighbour, 
 which is, to love him as themselves, but then themselves in the 
 first place. And let him be destroyed, nay, destroy him, rather 
 than they should perish. 
 
 Page 43. At the fourth line, thus : 
 
 . . . . that every Child may have one, both to put him 
 in mind of GoD'S blessing in his Confirmation, and also to he his 
 Witness, that he hath been confirmed. 
 
 Then another Kubrick, after the Title, thus : 
 At the end of the Communion Service, next before the Bless- 
 ing^ the BisJiop^ having all tJiose that shall then be admitted unto 
 
92 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Confirmation kneeling before him, shall, by himself or some 
 Minister appointed by him, begin thus : 
 
 Our help is in the Name of the Lord. 
 Answer. 
 
 Who hath made Heaven and earth &c. 
 
 Almighty and everliving God, Who didst heretofore vouch- 
 safe to regenerate these Thy servants by water and the Holy 
 Ghost, and didst give unto them forgiveness of all their sins, 
 We humbly beseech Thee, that they having now by the blessing of 
 Thy Grace attained unto some knowledge of Thee, Thou wouldst 
 strengthen them with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, and 
 daily increase in them Thy manifold gifts of Grace; the spirit 
 of wisdom and of understanding; the spirit of counsel and of 
 ghostly strength ; the spirit of knowledge and of true godli- 
 ness ; and fulfil them, Lord, with the spirit of Thy holy fear, 
 now and for ever. Amen. 
 
 Then the Bishop shall lay his hand upon every one sever- 
 ally, and shall say, 
 
 Defend, Lord, (this Child), Thy servant, with Thy 
 Heavenly Grace, that he may continue Thine for ever, and may 
 daily increase in Thy Holy Spirit more and more &c. 
 
 Page 44. Almighty and Everliving God, Who makest us 
 both to will and to do those things that be good and accept- 
 able unto Thy Divine Majesty, We make our humble supplica- 
 tions unto Thee for these Thy servants, upon whom we, after 
 
 the example of the Holy Apostles, have laid &c 
 
 Who with Thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever 
 one God, world without end. Amen. 
 
 Then the Bishop, they all still kneeling before him, shall bless 
 them, and dismiss them, thus : 
 
 The Blessing of God Almighty, &c. 
 
Bishop Wren. 93 
 
 Page 45. At tlie second line, .... send in writing 
 a Certificate, setting his own Name tJiereunto, of the Names of 
 all those Children &c. 
 
 In the next Paragraph of that Kubrick : 
 
 And there shall none be admitted unto the Communion or 
 unto Marriage, until such time as they can say the Catechism, 
 and be knony)i to have been confirmed. 
 
 In the next Kubrick, being for Marriage, thus : 
 
 The Banns shall first be published on three several Sundaj^s 
 
 or Holydays, by the Minister, at the same time when he is to 
 
 declare what Holydays fall. 
 
 In the last Paragraph there, thus : . 
 
 At the day appointed for tlie Solemnizing of Matrimony, as 
 soon as the Litany is ended, and before they go to the Communion 
 Service, the persons to be married shall come into the body of 
 the Church &c. 
 
 Dearly Beloved, we are here com£, in the sight of God, and 
 in the face of His Church, to join together this &c. 
 
 Page 46. The first Kubrick, thus : 
 
 Then, speaking directly unto the Persons that stand before 
 him to be married, he shall say. 
 
 Page 47. And so, either to give their Troth to other ; the 
 
94 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Man first saying, and so the Woman afterward, as the Minister 
 shall teach them, I, N. take &c. 
 
 Page 48. In the second Kubrick, thus : 
 
 Then, leaving the Ring upon the Woman's finger, they shall 
 both kneel down, and the Priest, standing before them, shall lay 
 his hand upon both their heads, and then shall say, 
 
 Eternal God, Creator and &c. 
 
 Page 49. The second Kubrick, thus : 
 
 Then the Minister and Clerks, going unto the Lord's 
 Table, the married Couple also following the Minister, and 
 kneeling where he shall appoint them, this Psalm shall be said. 
 
 Page 50. When the Psalm is ended, the Priest, as he 
 stands at the Holy Table, but turning his face towards the 
 married Couple, shall say, 
 
 Lord, have mercy upon us. 
 
 Answer, by the Clerks and the people, 
 Christ, have mercy upon us. 
 Our Father, Who art in Heaven, &c. 
 
 Minister, 
 Lord, save Thy servant and Thine handmaid. 
 
 Answer, 
 Who put their trust in Thee, &c. 
 
 Page 51. In the third Prayer on that page, there is 
 Which three times, when it should be Who, 
 
 Page 52. Almighty God, Who at the beginning didst 
 create our &c. 
 
Bishop Wren. 95 
 
 In the beginning of the Exhortation, 
 All ye who are married, or who intend to take the holy 
 state of Matrimony upon you, &c. 
 
 To every place of Scripture following, let the Chapter and 
 Verse be set in the margin. 
 
 Page 53. Three times on this page, change the word Con- 
 gregation into Church ; and in the fourth place, leave it quite 
 out. 
 
 Page 54. To the first Rubrick, add thus : 
 . . . . holy Communion ; unto which the Minister is 
 now to proceed. 
 
 Yet it must be remembered that this Injunction, ^on the 
 same day,' does plainly thwart a chief reason that is commonly 
 rendered for the times of Marriages prohibited. But let this 
 stand, and let that Order of prohibiting be rectified. 
 
 Also, before we pass to the Order for Visiting the Sick, 
 here wants a brief Form of Public Prayer, to be appointed for 
 the Church's use, when such as are sick do send their names, 
 desiring to have the Prayers of the Church. Here therefore 
 let such a Form be set down, with this Order, that it be used 
 by him that ofiiciates, when there is occasion. At Morning 
 Prayer next after the Nicene Creed, or at Evening Prayer next 
 
96 Bishop Wren. 
 
 after the Second Lesson ; so that the Preacher be not disturbed 
 therewith, to require it of him, before or after his Sermon. 
 
 Page 55. On this page, Which is twice for Who ; and 
 once, upon the next page. 
 
 Page 56. In the bottom of that page, set in the margin 
 Hebr. xii, 6. 
 
 Page 58. At the end of that Kubrick, set it thus : 
 . . . . the Priest shall absolve him, if he perceive that 
 he doth humbly and heartily desire it, after this sort. 
 
 After the Absolution, the Priest shall kneel down, and say, 
 most merciful God, Who according to the multitude of 
 Thy mercies dost so put away the sins, &c. 
 
 Page 59. At the ending of that Prayer, thus : 
 . . . . impute not unto him his former sins, but 
 strengthen him by the comforts of Thy Blessed Spirit; and 
 when it pleaseth Thee to take him from hence, take him unto Thy 
 favour, through the Merits, &c. 
 
 Page 61. In the second line, thus : 
 
 Saviour of the world, save us : Thou Who by Thy Cross 
 and precious Blood hast redeemed us, help us, we beseech Thee, 
 Blessed LoRU God. 
 
 Then shall he say over the Sick, 
 
 The Almighty Lord, Who is a most strong tower, &c. 
 
 . . . . the Nanie of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto 
 Whose Grace and Mercy we humbly now commit thee, waiting 
 
Bishop Wren. 97 
 
 His blessed pleasure, and ascribing unto Him, with the Father 
 and the Holy Ghost, all honour, praise, and glory, now and for 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 In the Kubrick following, instead of a good number, put it 
 and three or four to receive the Communion &c. 
 
 Page 62. In the first line, 
 
 . . . . Maker of Mankind, Who dost correct &c. 
 
 . . . . shall depart from the body, that it may be 
 without spot presented unto Thee, through &c. 
 
 In the margin, add the verses of those citations for the 
 Epistle and Gospel. 
 
 Page 64. Twice on this page, which is put for who. 
 
 Page 67. At the first line, this Kubrick : 
 The Lesson being ended, they shall kneel down, and the 
 Priest shall say, 
 
 Lord, have mercy upon us. 
 
 Page 68. If the Burial were not after the Second Lesson, 
 in the time of Divine Service, then it shall here be closed with 
 The Grace of our Lord Jestts Christ (fc. 
 
 The first Kubrick there, to be thus : 
 
 The Woman, decently veiled, shall, at the beginning of the 
 Communion Service, be appointed where to kneel, not far from 
 the Holy Table; at which the Priest standing, shall thus direct 
 his speech to her ; 
 
 Forasmuch as it hath pleased &c. 
 O 
 
98 Bishop Wren. 
 
 Page 69.^ Here also is Which twice, instead of Who. 
 
 Let that Collect be thus closed : 
 
 . . . . live and walk in her Christian Vocation, ac- 
 cording to Thy holy Will in this present life, and also in the 
 life to come may be made partaker of everlasting Glory, 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 The Kubrick following to be this : 
 
 The Priest here proceedeth to the Communion Service. And 
 if there he a Communion, it is convenient that the Woman do 
 receive it. She must also offer the Offerings accustomed in that 
 Parish. 
 
 Page 70. The Title, thus : 
 
 A Denouncing of Goifs Judgments against sinners, called 
 the Commination, with certain prayers to be used after it. 
 
 Then the Kubrick, thus : 
 
 On the first day of Lent, after Morning Prayer, where it 
 useth to he divided from the rest of the Divine Service, the 
 People being assembled again by the ringing of a bell, the 
 Public Supplication called the Litany shall be said : which 
 ended, the Priest, before the Communion Service, going into 
 the pulpit, shall say thus : 
 
 Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a Godly 
 Discipline, that, on the first day of Lent, such persons as stood 
 convicted of notorious offences, were put to open Penance, &c. 
 
 In the next Paragraph, 
 
 . . . . it is thought meet that on this day of our general 
 Humiliation, in the presence of you all, should be read the 
 general Sentences &c. 
 
 Page 71. Change the Title throughout, a.s is aforesaid. 
 
Bishop Wren. 99 
 
 Page 72. At the liftli line : Shall not the mention of 
 David be here omitted? For though the phrase of going 
 astray be in Psalm cxix, 176, yet there's no mention at all 
 of any Accursing. 
 
 At the eleventh line : In what being always at hand is not 
 the same with hanging over our heads^ it is less than it, and 
 should not be added unto it. 
 
 Page 73. Add the Verses to all these citations ; and so, 
 on the page before. 
 
 Page 74. In that Kubrick, thus : 
 
 The Priest^ being come from the pulpit, and he with the 
 Clerks kneeling where they said the Supplication, shall say this 
 Psalm. 
 
 Page 76. The seventh line : 
 
 Who put their trust in Thee. 
 The end of the first prayer, 
 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 From thence to the end, there is Which six times, for Who, 
 
 Page 77. A Kubrick to be set at the bottom : 
 These Prayers being finished, they are to go on to the Com- 
 munion Service. 
 
 Now, in all these Notes of mine, where &c. is set, the 
 meaning is to go on verbatim, as it is now in the Book of 
 Common Prayer, until a new Note come. But let not the 
 Printer use it.* 
 
 There was a mistake in setting the number of the pages to 
 the book which I went by in these Notes ; for in the Com- 
 
 * See Rule 3 on the next page. 
 
lUO Bishop Wren. 
 
 munion Service, the 15tli page is twice set. Other men's 
 books therefore must be so noted also, if they would use these 
 Notes ; and then there will be no great error. 
 
 The Psalter follows, the Title Page whereof says, it is after 
 the Translation of the Great Bible. Whereas we have now, 
 and had then, another Translation after that, and a greater 
 Bible. 
 
 After the Psalter, there are divers pages, inscribed 
 Godly Prayers to be used &c. 
 
 To be used in private, perhaps they meant. But by what 
 Authority ? Though many of them are not amiss ; and the 
 rest may soon be amended. But why are they joined here, 
 more than many hundreds of other Prayers ? 
 
 If it were the Printer's boldness alone, he should not dare 
 to have done such a thing, for fear of his Privilege. 
 
 It is needful that the Printer be so charged, as not to dare, 
 
 1. To add anything but what is directed in his original 
 
 Copy. 
 
 2. Not to leave out anything : not Amen at the end of 
 
 every Prayer : not Glory be to the Fathee, at the 
 end of every Psalm. 
 
 3. Not, for sparing of his labour or paper, to cut off the 
 
 Lord's Prayer, or the Glory be to, or anything 
 else with his &c. 
 
 4. Not to set For Thine is the kinydom, but where it is 
 
 appointed. 
 
 5. To set the number of his pages through the whole 
 
 book. 
 
Bishop Wren. 101 
 
 6. To compose so as that no Prayer have part of it set, to 
 
 turn over a leaf to it. And that every Order do 
 begin upon a new page. 
 
 7. It would also be for the reverence of this holy Book, 
 
 that he and his fellows jostle not so, in naming 
 themselves, in the Titlepage of it. 
 
 There wants an Order, 
 
 That no man shall publish anything in the Church but the 
 Minister alone. And that he make no Publication or Pro- 
 clamation there of anything but what is prescribed by the 
 Eules of this Book, or enjoined by his Ordinary. 
 
 What Advices, for other exceptions and alterations, shall 
 be brought, and what shall be therein ordered, let the Church 
 of England consider, unto whom all herein is humbly sub- 
 mitted. 
 
1 02 Bishop Wren. 
 
 The Manner of Ordering, Making, and Consecrating 
 Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 
 
 This shall be written in a Paper by itself, as followeth : 
 
 The reason of varying thus in the Title* is because the 
 word Ordination or Ordering is more proper than the word 
 Consecrating alone, which is attributed to dead or inanimate 
 things. It relishes also too much of the pomp of the Church 
 of Rome, to use it alone for Bishops, and yet hath since 
 been made use of by the Aerian Faction, to pretend that 
 Episcopacy is not an Order, but only a Degree above 
 Presbytery, and no otherwise than as Archiepiscopacy is 
 above Episcopacy. 
 
 In the first Institution this had the precedence, and so it is 
 mentioned twice in the Preface. 
 
 At the end of the Preface some Passages are left out ; but 
 they are severally added in the Kubricks of the several Orders, f 
 
 * In 1549, The Form and Manner of Makiiipf and Consecrating of Archbishops, 
 Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 
 
 In 1552, and till the last Revisp, The Form and Manner of Making and Conse- 
 crating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 
 
 t The Pen has been drawn across these Paragraphs, and the matter of them is 
 given in a more expanded form on page 106. 
 
Bishop Wren. 103 
 
 The Preface. 
 
 It is evident to all men diligently reading Holy Scripture 
 and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have 
 been these Orders of Ministers in the Church of Christ, 
 Bishops, Priests, and Deacons ; which offices were evermore 
 had in such reverent estimation, that no man might ever 
 presume to execute any of them by his own private authority, 
 but that he was first to be called, tried, examined, and known to 
 have such qualities as were requisite for the same. And also 
 by Public Prayer, with imposition of hands, to be approved, 
 and admitted thereunto. 
 
 And therefore, to the intent that these Orders should be 
 continued, and reverently used and esteemed in this Church of 
 England, it is required that no man (not being then at the 
 present Bishop, Priest, or Deacon) do execute any of them, 
 until he be called, tried, examined, and admitted by the 
 Church, according to this Form here prescribed. 
 
 It is also required that every man who is to be consecrated 
 unto the Order of a Bishop, be fully thirty years of age. And 
 every man who is to be admitted to be a Priest, be full four and 
 twenty years old. And none shall be admitted to be a Beacon, 
 except he be twenty and one years of age at the least.* 
 
 * In 1655, Bp. Ball, at the age of Twenty-one, was on one and the same day 
 ordained Deacon and Priest, in consideration of the "diflficulty and distress" of 
 the times. See Nelson's Life in Burton's Ed. of Bull's Works, p. 23. 
 
104 Bishop Wren. 
 
 The Form of Ordering or Consecrating of an Arch- 
 bishop OR Bishop. 
 
 The Divine Service for that day is to he proceeded in by the 
 Priest and the Deacon (but omitting the Litany) until they have 
 read the Epistle and the Gospel and the Nicene Creed, 
 
 The Deacon reads the Epistle, 1 Tim. iii, 1. 
 
 Tills is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a 
 Bishop, he desireth a good work. A Bishop then must be 
 blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good 
 behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not given to wine, 
 no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre ; but patient, not a 
 brawler, not covetous ; one that ruleth well his own house, 
 having his children in subjection with all gravity; (for if a 
 man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take 
 care of the Church of God ?) not a novice, lest, being lifted 
 up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. 
 Moreover, he must have a good report from them which are 
 without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 
 So endeth the Epistle. 
 
 The Holy Gospel is read by the Priest, Joan, xxi, 15. 
 
 Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest 
 thou Me more than these ? He saith unto Him, Yea, Lord, 
 Thou knowest that I love Thee. He saith unto him. Feed My 
 lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of 
 Jonas, lovest thou Me ? He saith unto Him, Yea, Lord, Thou 
 knowest that I love Thee. He saith unto him. Feed My sheep. 
 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest 
 
Bishop Wren. 105 
 
 thou Me ? Peter was grieved because He said unto him the 
 third time, Lovest thou Me ? And he said unto Him, Lord, 
 Thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I love Thee. 
 Jesus saith unto him, Feed My Sheep. 
 
 So endeth the Holy Gospel. 
 
 The Nicene Creed followeth^ [I believe in one God, the 
 Father, &c.] 
 
 After the Creed is ended, the Archbishop and his Suffragans 
 take their chairs before the Holy Table; and then two of them 
 bring the Bishop Elect , (having put on a Rochet only over his 
 Gown,) and present him unto the Archbishop of their Province, 
 or to some other Bishop appointed by Commission^ the Presenters 
 saying J 
 
 Most Reverend Father in God, we present unto you this 
 godly and well-learned man to be consecrated Bishop. 
 
 Hereupon the Archhishop shall demand the King^s Mandate 
 for the Consecration, and cause it to be read; which done, he 
 shall also require the Oath of the King^s Supremacy to be taken 
 by him who is to be ordered, as followeth : — 
 
 I, A. B., do utterly testify and declare, on my conscience, 
 that the King's Highness is the only Supreme Governor of 
 this Realm, and of all other His Highness' Dominions and 
 Countries, as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or 
 Causes, as Temporal, and that no Foreign Prince, Person, 
 Prelate, State, or Potentate hath or ought to have any Juris- 
 diction, Power, Superiority, Pre-eminence, or Authority, Eccle- 
 siastical or Spiritual, within this Realm. And, therefore, I do 
 utterly renounce and forsake all Foreign Jurisdictions, Powers, 
 Superiorities, and Authorities, and do promise that from heuce- 
 P 
 
106 Bishop Wren. 
 
 forth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's 
 Highness, his Heirs and lawful Successors, and, to my power, 
 shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions, Privileges, Pre-em- 
 inences, and Authorities granted or belonging unto the King's 
 Highness, his Heirs, and Successors, or united and annexed 
 unto the Imperial Crown of this Realm. So help me God, and 
 the Contents of this Book. 
 
 Next, the Oath of due Obedience unto the Archbishop shall 
 be taken by the Person elected, as followeth : — 
 
 In the Name of God, Amen. I, A. B., chosen Bishop of 
 the Church and See of K, do profess and promise all due 
 reverence and obedience to the Archbishop and to the Metro- 
 political Church of , and to their successors. So help 
 
 me God, through Jesus Christ. 
 
 At the Consecration therefore of an Archbishop this Oath 
 shall not be. given. 
 
 After this the * 
 
 * At this point there is a defect in the MS. 
 
Bishop Wren. 107 
 
 RATIONALE. 
 
 The reasons of the small variation made in the Title of 
 this Bookf are — 
 
 1. Because " Form and Manner" in effect are both the 
 same. " 
 
 2. Because the words " Ordering and Ordination," in an 
 act that is confined to persons, are much more proper than 
 is the word " Consecrating," which may be applied unto 
 dead or inanimate things, to Bread and Wine, to Places and 
 Times. 
 
 3. Because the Church from the beginning hath used it, 
 by the word of " Holy Orders " only to signify these Spiritual 
 Functions. 
 
 4. Because when we have used the word "Ordering" for 
 Priests and Deacons, then to use the word "Consecration" 
 alone for Bishops, as it is suspected to relish a little too 
 much of the pomp of the Church of Rome, so hath it been 
 abused in way of argument by two contrary factions ; both 
 by the Canonists, thereby to draw Episcopacy to a dependency 
 wholly on the pleasure and power of the Papacy, as but his 
 Commissioners ; and also by the Aerian Faction, from thence 
 to pretend, that Episcopacy is not a distinct Order in the 
 Church of Christ, but only a Degree, in nature no other- 
 wise above Presbytery than as Archiepiscopacy is above 
 Episcopacy. By the very same Paralogism also, this Faction 
 hath made their Deaconry to be in itself nothing else but 
 a Laical Faculty, that thereby they may give a little more 
 colour to their Lay Presbytery. 
 
 + i. e. the Ordinal. 
 
108 Bishop Wren. 
 
 The reasons of transposing these Forms now and setting 
 that for Bishops first, are 
 
 1. Because this is consonant both to the Title of the former 
 Book, and also to the words of the Preface, where it is twice 
 so put 
 
 2. Because the Institution of Christ Himself was so : for 
 in the beginning He gave unto His Apostles, S. Matt, xxviii., 
 all plenary power over His Church, by them to be derived to 
 their successors and substitutes unto the world's end. And 
 this was Episcopacy, being Specialis Potestas ad omnes actus 
 sacros. Afterward, the Apostles, by the guidance of the Holy 
 Spirit found cause, by way of distribution, to ordain Partiary 
 Powers also, and so by them were introduced the Orders of 
 Priesthood and of Deaconry. 
 
 3. Because the doing of this will conduce to some preven- 
 tion of error in those who, being little able to judge, and 
 reading first, as the Book of Ordination now hath it, what is 
 said in the Ordering of Priests, are easily mistaken when in 
 that which follows for the Ordering of Bishops they find so 
 little difference, to their apprehensions, and thereby run into a 
 surmise that there is little or no need of the latter of thes^, 
 or, at the best, that by the institution of both they are but 
 one Order, and in some small degree only difiering. 
 
 4. Because this order accords with the example of our 
 Liturgy, which hath set the Communion Service before that 
 of Baptism and Confirmation. 
 
 Any change of words in the Book is very sparingly done, 
 and such they are as the reasons thereof will appear by the 
 very reading of them. For instead of ' Congregation ' the word 
 ' Church ' is restored. And instead of ^ which,' having in 
 propriety of speech a relation only to things, is put ^who,' 
 when it relates unto persons, to God, or to Man. Also, 
 
Bishop Wren. 109 
 
 where the mood is indicative, instead of ' be,' which properly 
 belongs not but to the other moods, is put 'are.' 
 
 The translation of the Epistles and Gospels is now put as 
 was enjoined under King James. If there be a more elegant 
 translation of Veni Creator, it would here be put in instead of 
 the old * .1 hear that at the King's Coronation 
 
 there was another. 
 
 If in the edition of the Liturgy any word or passage in the 
 Litany shall be otherwise put than was before, it would here 
 be so put also. 
 
 Some passages in the close of the Preface are here omitted. 
 But they are afterwards inserted in their due place, so that in 
 the whole there is not any part of the old Eubrick omitted in 
 this new Order of the Book, 
 
 * A word here has been corrected with such a heavy hand that it is illegible. 
 
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