APPENDIX shall not have been already ordained..." By which as she retains II. her opinion and practice, which make a Bishop necessary to the Archop Form of giving of Orders when he can be had; so she does likewise leave all such persons as have been ordained by Presbyters only, the freedom of their own thoughts concerning their former Ordinations. It being withal expressly provided that this shall never be a precedent for the time to come, and that it shall only be granted to such as have been ordained before the day of The Letters of Orders are to be given them in the form used by Archbishop Bramhall1:-'Non annihilantes priores ordines (si quos habuit), nec validitatem nec invaliditatem eorundem determinantes, multo minus omnes ordines sacros Ecclesiarum Forinsecarum condemnantes, quos proprio judici relinquimus; sed solummodo supplentes, quicquid prius defuit per canones Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ requisitum, et providentes paci Ecclesiæ ut schismatis tollatur occasio, et conscientiis fidelium satisfiat, nec ullo modo dubitent de ejus ordinatione, aut actus suos presbyteriales tanquam invalidos aversentur....' New hymns were to be composed in place of Veni Creator. 'Whereas it was the constant practice of the Church to ordain by prayer, which practice continued for many ages, and that the pronouncing these words, "Receive the Holy Ghost," in the imperative mood, was brought into the Office of Ordination in the darkest times of popery; it is humbly submitted to the Convocation, whether it be not more suitable unto the general rule the Church of England has gone upon of conforming herself to the primitive Church, to put these words in some such form as this: 'Pour down, O Father of Lights, the Holy Ghost on this thy servant, for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto him by the imposition of our hands, that whose sins he does forgive, they may be forgiven, and whose sins he doth retain they may be retained, and that he may be a faithful dispenser of God's holy word and sacraments, to the edification of his Church, and the glory of his holy name, through Jesus Christ, to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end. Amen.' 1 See Bramhall, Works, I. p. xxxvii. (Ed. 1842). II. The form of words used by the bishop in the delivery of APPENDIX the Bible was to be prefaced by the phrase:- in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Take thou authority, &c.' The preceding with other alterations, amounting to about 600 articles, were prepared by the Commissioners1 in an interleaved copy of a black letter edition of the Book of Common Prayer (1683-86). This Book remained in the hands of Archbishop Tenison, and afterwards passed with his papers into the possession of Dr E. Gibson, bishop of London, by whom it was placed in the Lambeth Library 2. 1 Above, p. 141. The Commission was dated the 17th of September, 1 William and Mary, 1689. A Diary of the proceedings of the Commissioners, from Oct. 3 to Nov. 18, was written by Dr John Williams, A. INDEX. ABSOLUTION, the medieval form of, Adults, Office of Baptism of (1661), 364 Albis, Dominica in, 262, n. Altars, removal of, 26; Elizabeth's In- Alterations in the Prayer-Book (1552), Anglo-Saxon version of the Apostles' Anointing the Sick, form of (1549), Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Anthems, used in processions, or litanies, Apostles' Creed, 211; repeated inaudibly Apostolus, the Book of the Epistles, 8 152 Apostolical Constitutions, form of Litany B. Banns of Marriage, 377 the Mediæval Office, 334; the reformed Office indebted, through solemn times of, ib.; administered after the Second Les- the demands addressed to them, the charge to them, 353; the Font, the place of Baptism, 342; Dr Burgess's explanation of it, 354, n.; Regeneration in, 352, n.; undoubted salvation of baptized in- Baptism, in Private Houses, allowed in cases of necessity, 359; by a lawful minister (1604), 358; completion of the service in Church, Baptism, in Private Houses, enquiry to be made whether the administered, and by whom, 360; proposals about it (1689), 433 Bell, rung at a death, and a burial, Benediction, medieval forms of, 331, 222 Bibliotheca, 7 Bidding of the Beads, 156; the Bidding Blessing of the marriage-ring, 380 Books of Private devotion, 71 the First of Edward VI. (1549), 19; the Second of Edward VI. (1552), the revision under Elizabeth (1559), the revision after the Hampton- Boston Prayer-Book (Socinian), 149 Bread, for the Holy Communion, 333 the Roman, reformed by Cardinal called Portiforium in England, 10 BUCER (Martin), his opinion asked of BULLINGER (Henry), his Decades of BUNSEN, his restoration of the Liturgy Burial of the Dead; the Mediæval Offices, 394; the Office not to be used in certain earth cast upon the corpse, 401, bell to be rung, 402, n.; "Fall from thee,' meaning of the C. Calendar, commission to amend the, CALVIN, endeavours to promote the Candles on the Communion Table, 183 |