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General TABLES for finding the Dominical or Sunday-Letter, and the Places of the Golden Numbers in the Calendar.

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TO find the Dominical or Sunday-Letter for any given year of our Lord, add to the year its fourth part, omitting fractions, and alfo the number, which in Table I. ftandeth is at the top of the column, wherein the number of hundreds contained in that given year found: Divide the fum by 7, and if there is no remainder, then A is the Sunday-Letter: but if any number remaineth, then the letter which itandeth under that number at the top of the Table, is the Sunday-Letter.

TO find the month and days of the month, to which the Golden Numbers ought to be prefixed in the Calendar, in any given year of our Lord, confifting of entire hundred years, and in all the intermediate years, betwixt that and the next hundredth year following, look in the fecond column of Table II. tor the given year, confifting of entire hundreds, and note the number or cypher which stands again it in the third column; then, in Table 1. lock for the fame number in the column under any given Golden Number, which when you have found, guide your eye fideways to the left hand, and in the firft column you will find the month and day, to which that Golden Number ought to be prefixed in the Calendar during that period of one hundred years.

The letter B prefixed to certain hundredth years in Table II. denotes thofe years which are ftill to be accounted Bitfextile or Leap Years in the New Calendar; whereas all the other hundredth years are to be accounted only common years.

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The ORDER for MORNING and EVENING PRAYER daily to be faid and ufed throughout the Year.

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HE Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it fhall be otherwise determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the Chancels fhall remain as they have

done in times paft.

And here is to be noted, That fuch Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in ufe, as were in this Church of England by the Authority of Parliament in the fecond Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.

Chancel] The churches were anciently divided into two parts; the body, called emphatically nave, (either from vzos, a temple, or from navis, a ship; because under this image the Chriftian Church is aptly reprefented;) and the facrarium, or more holy part, fince called the cancellum or chancel, from its being divided from the body by can celli, or rails. The nave was common to all the people, and reprefented the vifible world; the cancellum was appropriated to the priests and clerks, and typified heaven.

Second Year of Edward the Sixth] This Act of Parliament refers to the first Common Prayer-Book of Edward VI. for directions refpecting the habits in which Minifters are to officiate. Thefe directions confift of two rubrics; one of them on the laft leaf of the book, prefcribing the habits in all public miniftrations whatfoever; and the other prefcribing the habits to be ufed at the Communion, which is placed at the beginning of that office. The former runs thus: "In the faiyng or fyngyng of Matins and Even-fong, baptizyng and burying, the Minifter, in parifhe churches, and chapelles annexed to the fame, fhall use a furples; and in all cathedrall churches, and colleges, the archdeacones, deacones, provottes, mafters, prebendaries, and fellowes, beeyng graduates, maie ufe in the quire, befides their furpleffes, fuche hoodes as perteygneth to their feveral degrees which they have taken in anie Univerfitie withine this realme. But in all other places, every Minister fhalle bee at libertie to ufe a furpleffe or no. It is alfo feemlie that graduates when thei doo preache fhould ufe fuch hoodes as perteygneth to their feveral degrees.

"And whenfoever the Bithoppe shall celebrate the holy Communion in the churche, or execute any other publique miniitration, he fhall have upon him, befide his rocket, a furpleffe or albe, and a cope or veftement, and alfo his pastoral staff in his hand, or elfe borne or holden by his chapelain."

The rubric refpecting the attire of the Minifter at the Communion is as follows:"Upon the daie, and at the tyme appoynted for the miniftration of the holy Commu nion, the priest that thall execute the holy miniftery, fhall put upon him the vefture appointed for that miniftration; that is to faie, a white albe, plain, with a veftement of And where there be many prieftes, or deacons, there fo many fhall be ready to helpe the priest in the miniftration as fhall be requifite; and fhall have upon them likewife the vestures appointed for their miniftery; that is to fay, albes with tunicles."

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N. B. The furplice, or fuper pelliceum, is fo called from being worn over the other gar ments. The hood, caputium, or cucullus, has come down to us from the ancient Ro mans; being a coarfe covering for the head, broad at one end, and gradually leffening to a point. The rochette, a linenunder-garment, worn by bishops. The alb, a very ancient garment, worn at the celebration of the Communion, made of linen, and fitting the body clofely, in the manner of a caffock. The cope, a coat without fleeves. The tunicle, a filk coat without fleeves, like the cope, of a sky colour. The pastoral staff, crook, or rozier, ufed by the Bishop as an emblem of his paftoral care over the flock of Chrift.

THE ORDER

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Morning Prayer,

Daily throughout the Year,

At the beginning of Morning Prayer, the Minifte fhall read with a loud voice fome one or more of thefe Sentences of the Scriptures that follow; and then he shall fag that which is written after the faid Sentences.

WHEN the wicked man turneth away from his wick

edness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he fhall fave his foul alive.— Ezek. xviii. 27.

I acknowledge my tranfgreffions, and my fin is ever before me.-Pfal. li. 3.

Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out all mine iniquities.-Pfal. li. 9.

The Minister fhall read with a loud voice) Previoufly to the Reforma tion, it was cuftomary for both prieft and people, before they commenced the offices of worship, to repeat fecretly to themfelves the Lord's-Prayer, Hail, Mary, and Creed. In celebrating mafs, a great part of the fervice was (and is ftill in Roman Catholic countries) faid in a low voice by the prieft, according to one of the Miffal Rubrics, which expreffes itfelf thus:Quæ vero fan&te, &c. "Thofe parts which are to be faid in the moft folemn manner, the pricft fhall fo pronounce, that he may hear his own voice, but that it may not be heard by the people."-Rubrica Generales Miffalis Romani.

The faid Sentences] The fervices in the firft book of King Edward VIth commence with the Lord's-Prayer. In the fubfequent review, however, the Reformers prefixed the Sentences, Exhortation, Confeffion, and Abfolution, as a proper introduction to the folenin duty which the worshipper was about to perform. Of the fentences, the general tendency is, to bring finners to repentance; and they may be arranged under the following claffes; 1ft, Inftruction to the ignorant and erroneous; 1 John 1. 8, 9; Ezekiel xviii. 27. 2dly, Admonition to the negligent and inconfiftent; Pfal. li. 3; Matt. iii. 2. 3dly, Acknowledgment of fin, and deprecation of its confequences; Pfal. li. 9; Pfal. cxliii. 2; Luke xv. 18, 19. 4thly, Confolation to the bumble and penitent; Pfal. li. 17; Dan. ix. 9. sthly, Caution against formality and Pharisaical hypocrify; Joel ii, 13.

The facrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife.-Pfal. li. 17.

Rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.-Joel ii. 13.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he fet before us.-Dan. ix. 9, 10.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, left thou bring me to nothing. Jer.x. 24; Pf. vi. 1. Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.— St. Matt. iii. 2.

I will arife, and go to my father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy fon.-St. Luke xv. 18, 19.

Enter not into judgment with thy fervant, O Lord: for in thy fight shall no man living be juftified.-P. cxliii.9.

If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confefs our fins, he is faithful and juft to forgive us our fins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteoufnefs.-1 St. John i. 8, 9.

EARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us

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in fundry places, to acknowledge and confefs our manifold fins and wickednefs; and that we fhould not diffemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confefs them, with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the fame by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our fins before God, yet ought we most chiefly fo to do, when we affemble and meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received

Dearly beloved brethren] The Exhortation properly follows the fentences, being partly deduced from, and intended to illuftrate and apply them, and to direct us how to perform the confeffion that follows them. It should therefore be read by the minifter in a folemn, deliberate, and impreffive manner, and liftened to by the people with reverence and

attention.

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