A. G. TAB. II. FIG. 2. e. And lifting up a Portion (or little piece) he fets it on the right hand fide of the Holy Bread, near the middle of it, faying. Upon thy right hand did ftand the Queen in a Vesture of Gold wrought Pf. LXX. 45. about with divers Colours. Then taking a fecond Seal, he faith, Of the Honourable, Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptift, John. 1. And lifting up the first Portion, he puts it on the right fide of the Holy Bread, near the Seal of the Mother of God, making the beginning of the firft File; then he faith, Of the Holy, Glorious Prophets, Mofes and Aaron, Elias and Elisha, David and Jeffe, the three Holy Children, and Daniel the Prophet, and all the Holy Prophets. 2. Then he places the fecond Portion under the first orderly; Then again he faith, Of the Holy and Glorious and most Celebrated Apoftics, Peter and Paul, of the Twelve and the Seventy, and all the Holy Apostles. 3. And fo he puts the third Portion under the fecond, finishing the firft File; then he faith, Of our Holy Fathers and Universal Great Doctors and High Priests, Bafil the Great, Gregory the Divine, and John Chryfoftom, Athanafius and Cyril, Nicholas of Myra, and all Holy High Priefts. 4. Lifting up the fourth Portion he puts it by the firft Portion making the beginning of the fecond File; then again he faith, Of the Holy First Martyr, and Arch-Deacon Stephen, the Holy Great Martyrs Demetrius, Georgius, Theodorus, and all Holy Martyrs Men and Women.. 5. Then lifting up the fifth Portion be puts it under the fifth which is the beginning of the fecond File; then he faith, Of our Holy infpired Fathers, Antonius, Euthymius, Sabbas, Onuphrius, Athanafius of Mount Athos, and all Saints Men and Women. 6. And fo lifting up the fixth Portion he places it under the fecond Portion to the filling up of the fecond File; after thefe he faith, Of the Holy, Wonder-working, Not-mercenary, Cofmus and Damianus, Cyrus and John, Pantaleemon and Hermolaus, and all Not-mercenary Saints. 7. And lifting up the feventh Portion he places it above making the beginning of the third File; and again he faith, Of the Holy and Juft, Godparents, Joachim and Anna, of the Saints of the Day, and all Saints, through whofe Prayers, O God, regard us. 8. And he places the eighth Portion under the first in good order; moreI over be faith, Of our Father Saint John Chryfoftom Archbishop of Conftantinople, (if his Liturgy be then faid, but if that of Bafil the Great be faid, he remembers Him, 9. And fo lifting up also the ninth Portion, he places it in the end of the third File to fill it up. Then taking a third Seal, he faith, Remember, O Lord, Lover of Men, all Orthodox Bishops, our Bishop, N. N. the Honoured Presbytery and Deaconry in Chrift, and all in Holy Orders, our Governour, N. N. our Brethren and Fellow Minifters, Priests and Deacons, and all our Brethren whom thou haft called to thy Communion by thy Bowels of Mercy, O all Good Lord. And lifting up a Portion he places it beneath the Holy Bread. Then he Remembers also the Living, whom he hath by name, and fo lifting up Portions he places them below. Then taking another Seal he faith, For the memory and remiffion of the Sins of the Bleffed Founders of this Holy Monaftry. Then Then he remembers the Archbishop which ordain'd him, and others who are dead, fuch as he pleafes, by name; and lastly he adds this, And of all our Orthodox Fathers and Brethren, who have flept in Hopes of the Refurrection, Life Eternal, and in thy Communion, O Lord, Lover of Men. And he lifts up a Portion. Then the Deacon, he also taking a Seal, and the Holy Spear, remembers thofe of the Dead, whom he pleafeth; and laftly faith thus, Remember alfo, O Lord, my unworthynefs, and forgive me every misdeed both voluntary and involuntary. Then he also remembers thofe of the living, in another Seal, whom he pleafeth in like manner, and places the Portions beneath the Holy Bread, as the Prieft did. Then taking the Sponge, he gathers all the Portions, that are in the Difh beneath the Holy Bread, together, fo as they may be fafe, and that nothing may fall out. Then the Deacon taking the Cenfer, and putting Frankincense upon it, he faith to the Prieft. Blefs, Sir, the Incenfe. And the Prieft fays the Prayer of Incense; We offer unto Thee, O Christ our God, Incense for a Savour of Spiritual Sweetness; which Thou having received up to thy Altar above the Heavens, fend down, as a return, to us the Grace of thy All-holy Spirit. The Deacon, Let us befeech the Lord. And the Priest Incenfing the Afterisk fet it over the Holy Bread, Saying, And a Star coming stood over where the Child was, The Deacon, Let us befeech the Lord. The Priest incenfing the first Covering, covers the Holy Bread with the Holy Dish, Saying, The Lord is King, to the end. The Deacon, Let us befeech the Lord, Cover, Sir; Then the Priest incensing the second Covering, covers the Holy Cup, faying, K. 2. Ꮮ. M. M. 2 TAB.II. FIG.3. N. Thy Virtue, O Christ, cover the Heavens, and the Earth (was) full of thy Habak. 3. 3. Praise. The Deacon, Let us befeech the Lord, Cover, Sir; The Priest incenfing the third Covering, that is the Aer, covers both, Saying, Cover us with the covering of thy Wings; chafe away from us every Enemy Always, now, and for ever, and to Ages of Ages. Amen. Then the Deacon taking the Cenfer, faith, At the Propofition of the honourable Gifts, let us befeech the Lord. ი. O God our God. C And v. P. O. 2. 0.3. Common Prayer, concerning the Church, And after this he makes the Difmission there, faying thus, Glory be to Thee, O Chrift, God, our Hope; Glory be to Thice. Glory, and now. Lord have mercy. Bless, Sir. And the Priest makes the Difmiffion, faying thus, if it be Sunday, If not, Christ our true God, by the Interceffion of his All-immaculate Mother, of our Holy Father John Chryfoftom Archbishop of Conftantinople; But if the Liturgy of Bafil the Great be celebrated, he faith, Of Bafil the Great, of Cæfaria, Cappadocia; and of all Saints, have Mercy and fave us, as he is Good and a Lover of Men. The Choir, Amen. After the Difmiffion the Deacon Incenfes the Holy Prothefis; Then he goes away and Incenfes the Holy Table. Thus far is the Preparation of the Elements, which are left thus ftanding covered till (μeɣáλn doodos) the great Entrance, or Proceffion is made, in carrying the Elements in the Dish, and the Cup from the Prothefis to the Holy Table. But before that, there is a very long confufed, incoherent Piece of Pageantry, rather then folid and fincere Devotion, carried on by the Pricft and the Deacon (fometimes loud, othertimes foft, intermixing with fome Set-Prayers, many, many Suffrages, Verficles, Refponfes, Repetitions, with numerous and various Rites or Ceremonies) and by the Singers and Choir, (who carry on a Service by themselves in the mean time, and now and then in peculiar Places mix their Refponfes and Suffrages with them) in fuch a manner as we may justly fay of the whole Service, what is faid of our Service before the Reformation; The number and hardness of the Rules called the Pie (ava, the Tables or Rubricks of Direction) was the Caufe, that to turn the Book only Service of the (and understand what is to be done) was fo hard and intricate a Matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read, then to read it (and do it) when it was found out. And in the Greek Church, this is the main Study of the Priests and Deacons to know what they are to do; and indeed he that fhall diligently perufe this Liturgy only, will find that its Performance by heart (as they always do it) exactly according to their Rubrick, will require Time, and Memory, and Attention enough. So that here Of Ceremo- likewife, what is quoted by our Church out of St. Auguftin, may have just place, nies, why fome The Ceremonies in the Greek Church are grown to fuch a Number, as the be abolished, eftate of it is in worfe Cafe concerning this Matter, then were the Jews. fome retained. Epift. 119. ad In the Greek Church, all the Liturgy being faid by Heart, (as is noted beFanuar. Edit. fore) it is no cafy task for the Pricfts and Deacons to remember their Parts fo bitav. p. 664. perfectly, as to Act them every day exactly; and it is as nice a matter for the Singers and Choir, and the Anagnofte or Readers to remember their several Keys, or Cues (as our Actors call it in their Plays) when they are to enter in their Performance throughout the whole Service; which, if it be entirely performed, and not curtail'd, nor any Parts omitted, (as it is frequently done in Country, or poor Parishes, or at a Panegyris, or when only one Prieft does all) it will last two Hours at leaft; as I have known it done in the Patriarch's Church at Fanar, and in Laura, and other of the Great Monafteries at Mont Athos. So that it is no wonder that most of the Greek Priests, that daily attend at the Liturgy, and all other their daily Offices, especially on Holy-days and Vigils (as fhall be elsewhere more fully noted) are fo little acquainted with any other Learning. Lugd. 1563. Vol. 1. In the Middle of this Theatrical Devotion comes in a Scene for reading the Epistle and Gospel, which are carried up from the Prothesis through the Body of the Church to the Chancel, with lighted Candles in a pompous Proceffion, idem. which they call, xgà rod, the leffer Entrance. The Epiftle is read at the Chancel door by (avarydsns) the Reader, but the Gofpel is carried down again (in the Patriarch's Church) towards the Weft end with like Pomp by the Deacon, and read there by him. And there are the like numerous fragments of Devotion and Ceremonies inferted, before and between, and after the reading of the Epiftle and Gospel. Amongst other things I cannot but mention one; the Priest and Deacon together fing the thrice Holy Hymn, which the Singers had fung before ; that is, ἅγιος ὁ Θεὸς, ἅγιος ἰσχυρὸς, ἅγιος ἀθάνατο, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς, Holy God, Holy, (Thou that art) Strong, Holy (thou that art) Immortal, have Mercy upon us. Of which Hymn we have in feveral Authors, a strange Story to this purpose, A Youth, they fay, in a folemn Affembly being Miraculously Theoph. Chrocaught up into the Air, in fight of them all, heard it from a Divine nalog. p. So. Voice, which commanded it to be ever afterwards used in their fupplica. tions. The Latins have this Hymn in as high an Esteem as the Greeks; Cedrenus, faith, It was order'd to be Sung all over the World, by Theodofius p. 342. b. junior and Pulcheria, in whofe time this wonderful Revelation is faid to have been made. This Hymn then hath been plainly patcht into the Liturgy fince Chryfoftome's time. But Jobius in Photius, though he mentions Proclus to p. 222. 610. have been the Author of this Hymn, by Revelation, (I fuppofe from the abovefaid Story, Proclus being then Patriarch of Conftantinople) yet he faith, that a learned Chriftian Jew gave another original of it, which is mention'd alfo by Goar amongst other opinions. Next Cedrenus tells us, that the Divine P.127. §. 80, Voice in the Air commanded, under "étegov gosteray, that nothing else should be added to it; yet Photius tells us out of St. Ephraim, that fome added to p.228. 774 it o caupaleis di nuas, who was Crucified for us; others left that out, and added avía τpias, Holy Trinity, have Mercy upon us; Cabafilas faith, the Repeat- MS. p. 72. b, ing of Holy three times, was taken from the Angels; God, Strong, Immortal, from David. That the Church collected it, and Dedicated it to the Trinity, and added to it, have Mercy upon us, fo that after all we have but a very blind and uncertain account of this whole matter; and one may well fufpect that after this Hymn was once brought in, (no Man knows how) Proclus his Revelation, and the abovefaid Story upon it, and Jobius his narrative, and the opinions of Cabafilas and others, (who, as Goar faith, torquentur, beat their ibid. Brains about it) might be all variously forged to fupport it. This Hymn was at last drawn into a kind of charm; for in, (Hore beate Marie) the V. Mary's Pfalter or Prayer Book, Printed in London by Julyan Notary, in Henry the eighths time, I find it thrust into a Latin Prayer which is recommended in the Rubrick before it, as an Amulet; fo that if one beareth it about him he shall be fecured from Fire, and Water, and Battle, and Poifon &c. It is written in Latin Letters, AGYOS OTHEOS, AGYOS YSKYROS, AGYOS ATHANATOS ELEYSON YMAS. Sancte deus, Sancte fortis, Sancte & immortalis, miferere nobis. It is there pretended that this Prayer was Revealed to St. Auguftine by the Holy Ghoft, and it may, for ought I know, be as authentick a Tradition, as the others of the Original of the Hymn it felf. C. 20. 109. There are twelve Prayers now in the Euchologio fcatter'd up and down in this long Preamble, before you come to the great Entrance, or Proceffion, for carrying the Elements from the Prothefis to the Holy Table; many of which may poffibly be truly Antient; but of whofe making neither Goar, nor p. 130. §.106: any one else can tell. However the laft Prayer is confeffed by him, to be of p. 131. §. 108, much later Date then either Chryfoftom or Bafil, yet is found in both their Liturgies. It is mumbled over by the Prieft to himself, whilst the Cherubical Goar. 72. Hymn (to which it relates) is fung by the Singers; which Hymn was brought Goar. 106. in by the Command of Juftinus junior: In this Prayer is this Paffage, yàg Cedren. p. 390. εἶ ὁ προσφέρων και προσφερόμενος, και προσδεχόμενο και αιαδιδόμενα, Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, d. ammo 9. For Thou, O Chrift our God, art he who offereft, and art offered, who re- Goar. 72. 164. ceiveft (Goar renders it in the Latin, affumis, fufcipis) and art diftributed p. 71. p. 164. (diftribueris) or received. This was fuch a piece of unintelligible Stuff, as p. 72. C 2 all anno Euchol. p. 45. 137. b. Nicelus.1.7.§.5, all the learned Men, in Manuel Comnenus his time, could not agree about its inP.13.78. infra terpretation. However the Point was fettled by the Emperour, though we find not what was made the laft determinate Senfe of it; and feveral of thofe, whom my Author feems to have accounted the most Wife and Learned Men amongst them, were turned out upon it. p. Eucholog. P.45. l. ult. A. B. C. D. TAB. II. E. TAB. I. F. G. Pf. 11. 19. H. TAB. III. I shall here take no farther notice of this Preamble, but now fet down what follows in order to the adminiftration of the Sacrament. RUBRICK. Thus (the Priest and the Deacon) go in to the Prothefis, the Deacon going before; who incenfing the Holy Things, praying to himself thus, God be Merciful to me a Sinner, Saith to the Priest, Take up Sir, And the Priest taking up the Aer (the upper covering) lays it upon the Deacons left shoulder faying, Lift up your Hands unto the Holy Things and bless the Lord. Then taking the Holy Dish he fets it on the Deacon's Head with all warinefs and devotion. The Deacon alfo at the fame time holds the Cenfer with one of his Fingers. But he (the Prieft) takes the Holy Cup in his Hands. They go out (of the Prothefis) on the North fide, lighted Tapers being carried before them; and they fetch a round in the Church, Praying to themfelves and Jaying, May the Lord God remember us all in his Kingdom, always, now and forever, and to Ages of Ages. But the Deacon entring within the Holy Doors, ftands to the Right; and as the Priest is about to go in, he faith, to him, May the Lord God remember thy Priesthood in his Kingdom. And the Priest to him, May the Lord God remember thy Holy Deaconfhip in his Kingdom always, now and for ever and to Ages of Ages. And the Prieft fets down the Holy Cup upon the Holy Table, and taking the Holy Dish from the Deacon's Head, he fets that also upon the Holy Table, faying, Honourable Jofeph taking from the Tree, To the end. Bodily in the Sepulcher. As the bringer of Life, as more beautiful then Paradife. Then taking the coverings off from the Sacred Dish and from the Holy Cup, he lays them down on one fide of the Holy Table. Then taking the Aer from off the Deacon's fhoulders, and Incenfing it, he covers the Holy Things with it saying, Honourable Jofeph, to that part of it, having fitted it for the Burial he laid it. And taking the Cenfer out of the Deacon's hands, he Incenfes the Holy things thrice, faying, Then fhall they offer young Bullocks upon thine Altar. And giving back the Cenfer, and letting fall his Phanolium, and bowing his Head, he faith to the Deacon, O Brother and fellow Minister remember me. And the Deacon to him, May the Lord God remember thy Prieft-hood inhis Kingdom. Then the Deacon bowing his Head alfo, and at the fame time holding his Horarium with three Fingers of his right Hand, faith to the Priest, Holy Sir, Pray for me, And the Priest, The |