Give a short sketch of the introduction of instrumental music and metrical hymns into the services of the Church. Explain the following passages in the Psalter :

"The ports of the daughter of Sion." Ps. ix. 14. (Vide A.V.) "My darling from the power of the dog," Ps. xxii. 20. Darling life (Nicholls, in loc.); dog (vide marg. ref.)

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"Mine eyes prevent the night watches," Ps. cxix. 148.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Sketch the history of the reformed English Ordinal, and point out the principal features in which it differs from the Sarum rite.

How are the three orders of the ministry vindicated in the Preface to the Ordination Service?

Show that "from the Apostles' time there have been these orders of ministers in Christ's Church-Bishops, Priests, and Deacons." (Vide Hum. 318. Dr. Salmon's Historic Claims of Episcopacy, 1886, may also be consulted.)

What do you know of the origin and early history of Presbyters and Deacons? (Vide D.C.A.) What inferior orders or offices were recognised in the Church before the middle of the third century? (Vide D.C.A. ANAGNOSTES, SUBDEACON.)

What are the necessary qualifications of Candidates for Holy Orders? (Vide Pref. to Ord. Service.) What does the 34th Canon state?

Interpret the question, “Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you this office and ministration?"

How is the deacon's office of evangelist recognised in Ordination?

Why does the deacon receive imposition of hands between the Epistle and the Gospel?

How was the presbyter (as distinct from the sacerdos) ordained by the unreformed office?

What obligations does a priest take upon himself when ordained, in respect of his preaching, ministry, studies, and daily behaviour? (Vide the bishop's interrogatories.)

Mention the most characteristic peculiarities in the ordination of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons respectively.

Who have the duty of banishing erroneous doctrine?

CHAPTERS XXXVII.-XXXIX.

Point out carefully the steps taken by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities respectively in establishing and in abrogating a "Solemn Day."

What alteration has been made in the Ordination Service since 1662?

In what sense does the Clerical Disabilities Act enable a Clergyman to divest himself of Holy Orders?

Under what conditions may the Order of Morning and Evening Prayer be shortened, and in what manner? May any other service be shortened? (Vide Hum. 61, on the Act of Uniformity Amendment Act, 1872.)

MISCELLANEOUS.

Write out the Title of the Prayer Book.

What parts of our Prayer Book correspond severally to the Breviary, Missal, Manual, and Pontifical, which it superseded? (Vide §§ 10, 44, 12, 13.)

What parts of the Prayer Book are chiefly indebted to Hermann's Consultation? (Vide Index).

Show that the principle of fidelity to Scripture and respect for antiquity guided the compilers and revisers of the Prayer Book, and was characteristic of the English Reformation.

Give instances from Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Cyril of Jerusalem showing that there were practices in the Early Church which the revisers of the English Prayer Book since 1549 have not followed. (Vide §§ 3, 7, 111.)

The compilers of 1549 cut off "Anthems, Responds, Invitatories, and such like things as did break the continual course of reading the Scripture." Explain these terms, and mention the reform that was introduced. (Vide Glossary.)

Describe fully in what respects the second Prayer Book of Edward VI. differed from the first, in regard to―

(a) Morning and Evening Prayer (§ 44).

(b) The Ante-Communion Service (§ 100, ann. 1552).

(c) The Consecration Prayer (§ 100, ann. 1552).
(d) The Confirmation Service (§ 112).

(e) The Burial Service (§ 121).

In what relation did the Prayer Book authorised by Elizabeth stand to the second Book of Edward, and how far did it retrace the ground abandoned by that book? (Vide §§ 31, 100).

What additions were made to the Prayer Book after the Hampton Court Conference, and by what authority? (Vide §§ 23, 32, 53 ii., 84.)

How far did the changes made in 1604 and 1662 meet the desires expressed at the Hampton Court and Savoy Conferences? (Vide Card. C. 144, 387-389.)

What are the Occasional Services of the Church of England? Show how they cover the whole of Christian life.

What services before the Reformation were held at the church door?

Compare the leading thought of the unreformed and the present services in each of the following offices: Confirmation, Churching of Women, Burial of the Dead, Ordination of Priests.

In what places in the Prayer Book are the Second and Third Persons of the Holy Trinity directly addressed? (§ 150.) Where does the expression, "Bishops and pastors of Thy flock occur? In what saint's day collect does "pastor" appear?

What stood in the Litany in the place of "Bishops, Priests, and Deacons" before 1662? Where does "pastors" occur in the Catechism?

Bishops and Curates" (Prayer for Church Militant; Prayer for Clergy and People). Who are the Curates?

Quote two passages in the prayers referring to the maintenance of religion and truth by magistrates.

Quote the petitions mentioning the word "comfort" in the Prayer for All Conditions of Men, the Litany, the Prayer for the Church Militant, the Collect for the First Sunday after Ascension Day, and Whit Sunday. Derive the word. (Vide Glossary.)

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