OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER 5 RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCII, According to the Ure of the United Church of England and Ireland; Together with THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. SMITH, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY ; And Sold by Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, Mr, Mawman, 39. Lidgate Street, London ; and Mr. Deighton, Cambridge. Cum Privilegio Price Ten-Pence, unbounil. 1614, CONTENTS. HC Order now the Psalter is ap- The Order bow the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointel to be real. Fasts through the whole Year. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon seve- enllects, Epistles, ani Gospels to be used at the Ministration of the Holy Com- The Order of the Ministration of the The Order of Baptism, bech Public The form of solennization of Matri Visitition of the sick, arld Communion The Order for the Burial of the Thanksgiving of women after Child A Conmination, or Denouncing of Goi's Anger and judgements against Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea. A Form of Prayer for the Fifth Day of A Form of Prayer for the Thirtieth Day of January, A Form of Prager for the Nine and Qirl Presh, kan The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read. THE HE Pealter shall be read through once every Month, as it is there appointed, both for Morning and Evening Prayer; but in February it shall be read on'y to the 'Twerty-eighat!, or Twenty-ninth Day of the Month. And whereas January, March, May, July, August, October, ani December, have One-and-thirty Days apiece; it is ordered, that the same Psalms shall be read the last day of the said Months, which were read the day before : so that the Psalter may begin again the First Day of the next Morah ensuing. And whereas the rigth Psalm is divided into Twenty-two Portions, and is over-long to be read at one tinie; it is so ordered, that at one time shall not be read above four or five of the said portions. And at the end of every Psalm, and of every such part of the 119th Psalm, shall be repeated this Hymn, Glory be to the Father, and to the son : and to the Holy Ghast; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. Note, That the Psalter followeth the Division of the Hebrews, and the Translation of the great English Bible, set forth and used in the time of King Henry VIII. and Edward VI. The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read. THE Old Testament is appointed for the first Lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer; so as the most part thereof will be read over every Year once, as in the Calendar js appointed. The New Testainent is appointed for the Second Lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer; and shall be read over orderly every year, thrice, besides the Epistles and Gospe's; except the Apocalypse, out of which there are only certain Froper Lessons appointed upon divers Feasts. And to know what Lessons shall be read every Day, look for the Day of the Month in the Calendar following; and there ye shall find the Chapters that shall be read for the Leg ons both at Morning and Evening Prayer; exceptovly the Moveable Feasts, which are not in the Calendar, and the Immoveable, where there is a blank left in the coluna of Lessons; the Proper Lessons for all which days are to be found in the Table or Proper Lessons. And note, That whensoever Proper Psalms or Lessons are appointed, then the Psalms and Lessons of ordinary course appointed in the Psalter and Calendar (if they be different) shall be omitted for that time. Note also, That the collect, Epistle, and Gospel appointed for the Sunday, shall serve all the week after, where it is not in this books Otherwise ordered. |