equal with God's Law. And more-
over, they be neither dark nor dumb
Ceremonies, but are so set forth, that
every man may understand what they
do mean, and to what use they do
serve. So that it is not like that they
in time to come should be abused as
other have been. And in these our
doings we condemn no other Nations,
nor prescribe any thing but to our
own people only: For we think it | diversly in divers countries.

convenient that every Country should
use such Ceremonies as they shall
think best to the setting forth of God's
honour and glory, and to the re-
ducing of the people to a most per-
fect and godly living, without error or
superstition; and that they should put
away other things, which from time to
time they perceive to be most abused,
as in men's ordinances it often chanceth

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The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read.

HE Psalter 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 only to the twentyeighth or twenty-ninth day of the Month.

And, whereas January, March, May, July, August, October, and 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 agam the first day of the next month ensuing.

And, whereas the 119th Psalm is divided into twenty-two portions, and

The Order how the rest of holy appointed

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HE Old Testament is

is over-long to be read at one time; 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 Ghost;

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 the Eighth, and Edward the Sixth.

Scripture is appointed to be read. both at Morning and Evening Prayer; except only the Moveable Feasts, which are not in the Calendar, and the Immoveable, where there is a blank left in the Column of Lessons, the Proper Lessons for all which days are to be found in the Table of Proper Lessons.

To be read at Morning and Evening Prayer, on the Sundays, and

other Holy-days throughout the Year.

Lessons proper for Sundays.

Ash-Wednesday. 6, 32, 38 102,130,143 Ascension-Day. 8, 15, 21 24, 47, 108

Good-Friday. 22, 40, 54 69, 88 Whit-Sunday.