The Parish

to be charged.

and such other of the Communicants as he shall then call unto him, shall, immediately after the Blessing, reverently eat and drink the same.

(7) The Bread and Wine for the Communion shall be provided by the Curate and the Churchwardens at the charges of the Parish.

How often (8) And note, that every Parishioner shall communi

each Pa

rishioner is to communicate.

tory money how to be disposed of.

*

cate at the least three times in the year, of which Easter to be one. And yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or his or their deputy or deputies; and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties, accustomably due, then and at that time to be paid.

The Offer- (9) After the Divine Service ended, the money given at the Offertory shall be disposed of to such pious and charitable uses, as the Minister and Churchwardens shall think fit. Wherein if they disagree, it shall be disposed of as the Ordinary shall appoint.

[DECLARATION.]

"Whereas it is ordained in this Office for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, that the Communicants should receive the same kneeling; (which order is well meant for a signification of our humble and grateful acknowledgment of the benefits of Christ therein given to all worthy Receivers, and for the avoiding of such profanation and disorder in the Holy

* "Viz., at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide; probably in con formity to the ancient Jews, who were commanded by God Himself to appear before the Lord at the three great feasts that correspond to these, viz., in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles."-Wheatly on Common Prayer.

Communion, as might otherwise ensue ;) yet, lest the same kneeling should by any persons, either out of ignorance and infirmity, or out of malice and obstinacy, be misconstrued and depraved; It is hereby declared, that thereby no adoration is intended or ought to be done, either unto the Sacramental Bread or Wine there bodily received, or unto any Corporal Presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood. For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored (for that were Idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians); and the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven and not here, it being against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time in more places than one."

CHAPTER V.

THE OFFICE FOR THE HOLY COMMUNION,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

Twenty-first Canon of the Church of Scotland, enacted in 1828, re-enacted in 1838.

WHEREAS it is acknowledged, by the twentieth and thirty-fourth of the thirty-nine Articles, that "not "only the Church in general, but every particular or "National Church, hath authority to ordain, change, "and abolish Ceremonies, or Rites of the Church or"dained only by man's authority, so that all things

"be done to edifying;" the Episcopal Church in Scotland, availing herself of this inherent right, hath long adopted, and very generally used, a Form for the Celebration of the Holy Communion, known by the name of the Scotch Communion Office, which Form hath been justly considered, and is hereby considered, as the Authorized Service of the Episcopal Church in the Administration of that Sacrament. And as, in order to promote an union among all those who profess to be of the Episcopal persuasion in Scotland, permission was formerly* granted by the Bishops to retain the use of the English Office in all congregations where the said Office had been previously in use, the same permission is now ratified and confirmed: And it is also enacted, that in the use of either the Scotch or English Office, no amalgamation, alteration, or interpolation whatever, shall take place, nor shall any substitution of the one for the other be admitted, unless it be approved by the Bishop. From respect, however, for the authority which originally sanctioned the Scotch Liturgy, and for other sufficient reasons, it is hereby enacted, that the Scotch Communion Office continue to be held of Primary Authority in this Church, and that it shall be used not only in all Consecrations of Bishops, but also at the opening of all General Synods.

Resolution of the Synod of Bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church, communicated to the Council of Trinity College, March 2, 1846.

"The Bishops take for granted that, in making the necessary arrangements for the religious services of

*In 1723, and again in 1792.

Trinity College, a statute will be framed enjoining the due public performance of Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, strictly according to the Liturgy and Rubrical Directions of the Church, and in faithful observance of all her solemn Festivals and Fasts, as usually carried out in the College Chapels of the English Universities.

"And in respect to the solemn administration of the Holy Communion, to all the members of the College whom the Warden shall deem duly qualified for participating in the same, the Bishops of the Church canonically assembled at Aberdeen, this eleventh day of March, 1846, do, by a large majority, request the Council to frame and sanction a special statute, enjoining this the most sacred of all our holy rites to be duly and regularly administered, within the Chapel of Trinity College, during the three calendar months, beginning with the first Sunday in Advent, by that form which the Canon declares to be the authorized service of the Episcopal Church, and which is known by the name of the Scotch Communion Office; and for the next three months by the Office for the Holy Communion in the Book of Common Prayer; and thus to alternate by quarterly periods throughout the year. So much being considered by the Bishops as due to the National Church, of which Trinity College is to be considered as the peculiar seminary for the religious instruction of her younger members; and due also to the Church of England; of her full Communion with which, the Scottish Branch of the Church Catholic is desirous of affording the most complete proof.

"It shall, therefore, be the acknowledged duty of the Warden earnestly to recommend and inculcate on

his pupils the propriety of giving their attendance on either Service, THE DOCTRINE OF THE TWO CHURCHES, THOUGH VARIED IN EXPRESSION, BEING CONFESSEDLY ONE AND THE SAME."

The arrangement above referred to was subsequently so far changed, that the alternation of the two Services was ordered to be weekly instead of quarterly. And such is, and has been from the commencement, the practice at Trinity College.

THE COMMUNION-OFFICE* FOR THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, AS FAR AS CONCERNETH THE MINISTRATION OF THAT HOLY SACRAMENT.

[THE EXHORTATION.]

Dearly beloved in the Lord, ye that mind to come to the Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, must consider what St. Paul writeth to the Corinthians, how he exhorteth all persons diligently to try and examine themselves, before they presume to eat of That Bread and drink of That Cup. For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive That Holy Sacrament (for then we spiritually eat the Flesh of Christ, and drink His Blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us); so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily; for then we are guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ our Saviour; we eat and drink our own damnation, not

* Obs. Those parts of this Office which are identical with the preceding are printed in Italics. And where any thing is omitted in this Office which occurs in the preceding, the omission is marked by this sign (°).