reasonable soul and humane flesh subsisting Equal to the Father as touching his Godhead and inferiour to the father touching his manhood Who although he be God and man yet he is not two but one Christ. Due not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God Due altogether not by confusion of substance but by unitie of person For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so God and man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation desâ—â—nded into hell rose again the third day from the dead He ascended into heaven he sitteth on the right hand of the father God almighty from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire This is the Catholick faith which except a man beleeve faithfully he cannot be saved Glory be to the father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. ⧠Thus endeth the order of Morning and Evening Prayer through the whole year Here followeth the Letany to be used upon Sundayes Wednesdayes and Fridayes and at other times when it shall be commanded by the ordinary Scotch Lit. and without omission of any part of the other dayly service of the Church on those dayes O God the father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the son redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the son redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the father and the son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the father and the son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our ofâ—ences nor the offences of our forefatheres neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most pretious blood and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindnesse of heart from pride vain glory and hypocrisy from envie hatred and malice and all uncharitablenesse Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the Divel Good Lord deliver us From lightening and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murther and from suddain death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy 1. 2. B. of Edw. 6. from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and commandement Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy nativity and circumcision by thy baptisme fasting and temptation Good Lord deliver us By thy agony and bloody sweat by thy cross and passion by thy precious death and burial by thy glorious resurrection and ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant our most gracious King and governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastours and ministers of the Church with true knowledge and understanding of thy word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Councel and all the Nobility with grace wisdome and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all nations unitie peace and concâ—rd We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us a heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandements We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hâ—aâ— meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the week hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitiâ— upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widdews and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to heare us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and
preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our father which art in heaven c. And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen The Versicle O Lord deal not with us after our sins The Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities Let us pray O God merciful father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppresse us And gratiously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the Devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church though Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver for thy names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. From our enemies defend us O Christ. Gratiously look upon afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ. Gratiously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ. The Versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us The Answer As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy name sake turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holinesse and purenesse of living to thy honour and glory through our onely mediator and advacate Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A prayer for the Kings majesty O Lord our heavenly father high and mighty King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely ruler of Princes which doest from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon the earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious soveraign Lord and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy spirit that he may alway encline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicitie through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Scot. Lit. A prayer for the holy Clergy ALmighty and everlasting God which only workest great marvails send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all congregations committed to their charge the healthful spirit of thy grace and that they may truely please thee powre upon them the continual dew of thy blessing grant this O Lord for the honour of our advocate and mediator Jesus Christ Amen Scot. Lit. A prayer to be said in Ember weeks for those which are then to be admitted into holy orders and is to be read every day of the week beginning on the Sunday before the day of Ordination ALmighty God the giver of all good gifts who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders in thy Church give thy grace we humbly beseech thee to all those which are to be called to any office and administration in the same and so replenish them with the truth of thy Doctrine and innocency of life that they may faithfully serve before thee to the glory of thy great name and the benefit of thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer of Chrysostome ALmighty God which hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and doest promise that when two or three be gathered together in thy name thou wilt grant their requests fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitioâ—s of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship 2 Cor. 13. of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen Scot. Litnrgies For Rain if the time require O God Heavenly Father whose gift it is that the Rain doth fall the earth is fruitful beasts encrease and fishes do multiply send us we beseech thee in this our necessity such moderate Rain and showers that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to thy honour through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God Heavenly Father which by thy son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy kingdom and the righteousnesse thereof all things necessary to their bodily sustenance send us we beseech thee in this our necessity such moderate Rain and showers that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to thy honour through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For fair weather O Lord God which for the sin of man didst once drown all the world except eight persons and afterwards of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again we humbly beseech thee that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved this plague of rain and waters yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather whereby we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives and for thy clemencie to give thee praise and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. In the time of dearth and famine O God heavenly father whose gift it is that the rain doth fall the earth is fruitful beasts increase and fishes do multiply behold we beseech thee the afflicuons of thy people and
Curate give this exhortation to those that be minded to receive the same The Common Prayer DEarly beloved in the Lord ye that minde to come to the holy communion of the body and blood of our Saviour Christ must consider what Saint Paul writeth to the Corinthians how he exhorteth all persons piligently 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 be one with Christ Christ with us so is the danger great if we receive the same unworthyly For then we be guilty of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour we eat and drink our own damnation not considering the Lords body we kindle Gods wrath against us we provoke him to plague us with divers diseases and sundry kindes of death Therefore if any of you be a blasphemer of God an hinderer or slanderer of his word an adulterer or be in malice or envie or in any other grievous crime bewail your sins and come not to this holy table lest after the taking of that holy Sacrament the divil enter into you as he entred into Judas and fil you ful of all iniquities and bring you to destruction both of body and soul. Judge therefore your selves brethren that ye be not judged of the Lord. Repent you truely for your sins past Have a lively and stedfast faith in Christ our Saviour Amend your lives and be in perfect charity with all men so shall ye be meet partakers of those holy mysteries And above all things ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the father the son and the holy ghost for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our saviour Christ both God and man who did humble him self even to the death upon the crosse for us miserable sinners which lay in darknesse and shadow of death that he may make us the children of God and exalt us to everlasting life And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our master and onely saviour Jesu Christ thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by his pretious blood-sheding he hath obtained to us he hath instituted and ordained holy mysteries as pledges of his love and continual remembrance of his death to our great and endlesse comfort To him therefore with the Father and the holy Ghost let us give as we are most bounden continual thanks submitting our selves wholly to his holy will and pleasure and studying to serve him in true holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life Amen 1. B. of Edw. 6. In Cathedral Churches or other places where there is dayly Communion it shall be sufficient to read this exhortation above written once in a moneth And in parish Churches upon the week day it may be left unsaid Then so many as shall be partakers of the holy Communion shall tary still in the Quire or in some convenient place nigh the quire B the men on one side and the women on the other side All other that minde not to receive the said holy Communion shall depart out of the quire except the Ministers and Clerks Then shall the Minister take so much Bread and Wine as shall suffice for the persons appointed to receive the holy Communion laying the Bread upon the Corporas or else in the pattin or in some other comely thing prepared for that purpose And putting the wine into the Chalice or else in some fair convenient cup prepared for that use if the Chalice will not serve putting thereto C a little pure and clean water And setting both the Bread and Wine upon the Altar Then the Priest shall say The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Priest Lift up your hearts c. to the end of the Prefaces Common Prayer 1 B. of Edw. 6. Then shall the Minister say to them that come to receive the holy Communion Scot. Lit. this Invitation Here the Priest shall turn him towards those that come to receive the holy Communion and shall say YOU that do truely and earnestly repent you of your sins 1 B. of Edw. 6. to Almighty God and be in love and charity with your nieghbours and intend to lead a new life following the commandements of God and walking from henceforth in his holy wayes D Draw near and take this holy Sacrament to pour comfort make your humble confession to almighty God before this congregation here gathered together in his holy name meekly kneeling upon your knees E Then shall this general confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the holy Communion Scot. Lit. by the Presbyter himself or the Deacon either by one of them Lit. of Q. Eliz. or else by one of the Ministers or by the Priest himself or else by the Minister himself Scot. Lit. both he and all the people all kneeling humbly upon their knees ALmighty God father of our Lord Jesus Christ maker of all things judge of all men we knowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickednesse which we from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word and deed against thy divine majesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us we do earnestly repent and be heartily sorry for these our misooings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burden of them is intolerable have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most merciful father for thy son our Lord Jesus Christs sake forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newnesse of life to the honour and glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Then shall the Minister or the Bishop being present stand up and turning him self to the people Scot. Lit. pronounce the Absolution as followeth say thus ALmighty God our heavenly father who of his great mercy hath promised forgivnesse of sins to all them which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strength you in all goodnesse and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Then shall the Minister also say Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith to all that truely turn to him Come unto me all that travail and be heavie laden and I shall refresh you So God loved the world that he gave his onely begotten son to the end that all that beleeve in him should not perish but have life everlasting Hear also what saint Paul saith This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners Here also what saint John saith If any man
to lead a new life and heartily to follow the Commandements of God and to walk from henceforth in his holy wayes draw near and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort make your humble Confession to Almighty God and to his holy Church here gathered together in his name meekly kneeling upon your knees Then shall a general Confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the holy Communion either by one of them or else by one of the Ministers or by the Priest himself all kneeling humbly upon their knees Almighty God father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men we acknowledg and bewail our manifold sinnes and wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word and deed against thy divine Majestie provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us we do earnestly repent and be heartily sorry for these our misdoings The remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burthen of them is intollerable have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most mercifull Father for thy son our Lord Jesus Christs sake Forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life to the honour and glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then shall the Priest stand up turning him to the people say thus Our blessed Lord who hath left power to his Church to absolve penitent sinners from their sinnes and to restore to the grace of the heavenly Father such as truely believe in Christ have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all sinnes confirme and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life Then shall the Priest stand up and turning him to the people say thus Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith to all that truly turn to him Come unto me all that travail and be heavy laden and I shall refresh you So God loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son to the end that all that believe in him should not perish but have life everlasting Hear what S. Paul saith This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be embraced and received that Jesus Christ came into this world to save sinners Hear also what S. John saith If any man sin wee have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous he it is that obtained grace for our sinnes Then shall the Priest kneel down and say in the name of all them that shall receive this Communion this Prayer following WE do not presume to come to this Table O mercifull Lord trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies we be not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table But thou art the same Lord whose property is alwayes to have mercy Grant us therefore Gracious Lord so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ and to drink his blood in these holy Mysteries that we may continually dwell in him and he in us that our sinfull bodies may be made clean by his body and our soules washed though his most precious blood Amen Then shall the Priest rise the people still reverently kneeling and the Priest shall deliver the Communion first to the Ministers if any be there present that they may be ready to help the Priest and after to the other and when he doth deliver the Sacrament of the body of Christ he shall say to every one these words following The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body unto everlasting life And the Priest delivering the Sacrament of the bloud and giving every one to drink once and no more shall say The bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy soul unto everlasting life If there be a Deacon or other Priest then shall he follow with the Challice and as the Priest ministreth the bread so shall he for the more expedition minister the wine in form before written Then shall the Priest turning him to the people let the people depart with this Blessing The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and mindes in the knowledge and love of God and of his son Jesus Christ our Lord. To the which the people shall answer Amen Note that the Bread that shall be Consecrated shall be such as heretofore have been accustomed And every of the said consecrated Breads shall be broken in two peices at the least or more by the discretion of the Minister and so distributed And men must not think less to be received in part then in the whole but in each of them the whole body of our Saviour Jesu Christ Note that If it doth so chance that the wine hallowed and consecrate doth not suffice or be enough for them that do take the Communion the Priest after the first cup or Chalice be emptied may go again to the Altar and reverently and devoutly prepare and consecrate another and so the third or more likewise beginning at these words Simili modo postquam coenatum est and ending in these words Qui pro vobis pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum and without any levation or lifting up Imprinted at London the 8th day of March 2º EDW. 6 ti by R. Grafton Anno 1548. Addenda PAge 22. after line 12 begin another Division Thus. Chancellors Commissaries c. As much is it for the both honour and Interest of Christianity That the Professors of that Religion live as well as believe answerable to her Rule Upon this account in the Infancy of the Church for the first three hundred years the first care taken was That morall scandalls should not be committed at all the next was That when committed they should not be known amongst or taken notice of by the Heathens to the infamy of Christianity To this end all Offences of what nature or degree soever Ecclesiastical or Civil had their audience before the Bishop and his Bench of Elders which consistory according to the merit of the cause did admonish correct censure Nor did it take notice of crimes onely but if any contention or brabble chanced to happen between Party and Party the matter was so ordered as it was amicably composed by Arbitration and in case any were refractory and stubborne they were cast out of the Society of Christians Such was the Clergy Discipline before the Supream Magistrates entertained the Christian Faith And although after Constantine Lay-Courts took off Civil Lawes from the Church nisi alteruter Litigatorum aliter postularet unless one of the litigant parties should request to have the cause tried in the Bishops Consistory Yet did the Bishop notwithstanding keep up his Court for the cognizance of crimes Ecclesiastical by which I intend not onely such as are committed by persons Ecclesiastical contrary to Canons but also such others as were of
grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity may through thy goodnesse be mercifully turned into cheapnesse and plenty for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be praise for ever Amen In the time of war O Almighty God King of all Kings and governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to gloriâ—ie thee which art the onely giver of all victory through the merits of thy onely son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the time of any common plague or sicknesse O Lmighty God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst â—ay with the plague of pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst save the rest have pitty upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sicknesse and mortality that like as thou didst then command thine Angel to cease from punishing so it may please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sicknesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive receive our humble petitions and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins yet let the pitifulnesse of thy great mercy loose us for the honour of Jesus Christs sake our mediatour and advocate Amen A Thanksgiving for rain O Gd our heavenly Father who by thy gratious providence doest cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man we give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in in our greatest necessity to send us at the lâ—st a joyful rain upon thine inheritance and to refresh it when it was dry to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants and to the glory of thy holy name through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Thanksgiving for fair weather O Lord God who hast justly humbled us by thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters and futhy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather we praise and glorifie thy holy name for this thy mercie and will alwayes declare thy loving kindnesse from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Thanksgiving for plenty O Most merciful father which of thy gracious goodnesse hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church and turned our bearth and scarcity into cheapnesse and plenty we give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty beseeching thee to continue this thy loving kindnesse unto us that our land may yield us her fruits of increase to thy glory and our comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Thanksgiving for peace and victory O Almighty God which art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies we yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparant dangers wherewith we were compassed we acknowledge it thy goodnesse that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies toward us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A thanksgiving for deliverance from the plague O Lord God which hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavy and dreadful visitation and now in the midst of judgement remembring mercy hast reoâ—emed our souls from the jaws of death we offer unto thy fatherly goodnesse our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee alwayes praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of the Congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this WE humbly acknowledge before thee O most merciful father that all punishments which are threatened in thy law might justly have fallen vpon us by reason of our manifold transgressions and hardnesse of heart yet seeing it hath pleased thee of thy tender mercy upon our weak and unworthy humiliation to asswage the noisome pestilence wherewith we lately have been sore afflicted and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings we offer unto thy Divine majestie the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for such thy preservation and providence over us through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The end of the Letany Annotations upon CHAP. IIII. A Catechising part of the Evening Office The want thereof the cause of heresies Judgement of the Synod of Dort Sermons where in the Primitive Church part of the Evening Office B Evening Prayer why so called An ancient Evening hymn C. The Doxology of the Pater Noster why omitted in our service D. A necessary Rubrick added by the Scotch Liturgy E. Athanasius his Creed falsly so called yet ancient and extant in Anno 600. after Christ. F. Litanies Ancient in the Western Church long before Mamercus Reformed by Gregory the Great ours whence derived the Gesture proper for it G. Wednesdaies and Fridayes why dayes of fastings Stations what and why so called Tertullian cleared H. Forgiving our Enemies a peculiar of Christianity The Jewish and Romish practice contrary to it I. Repeated Prayers most powerful K. The Thanksgivings for Rain c. a necessary Reformation AN order for Evening Prayer Though Evening service varieth not much from that of the Morning yet doth it afford something which obligeth our consideration For what is too much forgot I must reminde you that there is an Evening service befor Evening Prayer The Curate of every Parish or some other at his appointment shall diligently upon Sundayes and holy days half an hour before Evening Prayer openly in the Church instruct and examine so many children of his parish sent unto him as the time will serve and as he shall think convenient in some part of the Catechisme The same rule is observed by the Belgick Church and so did the Palatine Divines advise at the Synod at Dort that it should be an afternoon exercise with this positive resolution Non dubitamus cur tot haereses et nova dogmata locum passim inveniant causam vel maximam esse Catechizationis neglectum We are consident that the neglect of catechizing is the main cause of so many heresies and novel doctrines which infest the Church I wish they of the Presbyterian inclination would more listen to these their friends and if not for conformity's yet for Christianity's sake not suffer Preaching so totally to usurp and justle out this most necessary office that as an Inmate to expel the right owner
the onely God through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I thank my God alwayes 1 Cor. 1. verse 4. unto verse 9. The Gospel When the Pharisees had Mat. 22. verse 34. unto the end The ninteenth Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. I call with my whole heart hear me O Lord c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. O God forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee Grant that the working of thy mercy may in all things direct and rule our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle This I say and testifie through Ephes. 4. verse 17. unto the end The Gospel Jesus entred into a shi◠Matth. 9. verse 1. unto ver 9. The twentieth Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. O consider mine adversity and deliver me c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. ALmighty and merciful God of thy bountiful goodnesse keep us from all things that may hurt us that we being ready both in body and soul may with free hearts accomplish those things that thou woulost have done through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Take heed therefore how ye walk Ephes. 5. verse 15. unto ver 22. The Gospel Jesus said unto his disciples Mat. 22. verse 1. unto ver 15. The xxi Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. Princes have persecuted me without a cause c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. GRant we beseech thee merciful Lord to thy faithful people pardou and peace that they may be cleansed from all their sins and serve thee with a quiet minde through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle My brethren be strong through Ephes. 6. verse 10. unto ver 21. The Gospel There was a certain ruler John 4. verse 16. unto the end The xxii Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. Let my complaint come before thee c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. LOrd we beseech thee to keep thy houshold the Church in continual godlinesse that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in good works to the glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I thank my God with all Phil. 1. verse 3. unto verse 12. The Gospel Peter said unto Jesus Matth. 18. verse 21. unto the end The xxiii Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. If the Lord himself had not been on our side c. Psal. 123. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. GOD our refuge and strength which are the author of all goodnesse be ready to hear the devout prayers of the Church and grant that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Brethren be followers together Phil. 3. verse 17. unto the end The Gospel Then the Pharisees went out Mat. 22. verse 15. unto verse 23. The xxiiii Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. They that put their trust in the Lord c. Psal. 125. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. LOrd we beseech thee assoil thy people from their offences that through thy bountiful goodnesse we may be delivered from the bands of all those sins which by our frailty we have committed Grant this c. The Epistle We give thanks to God Colos. 1. verse 3. unto ver 13. The Gospel While Jesus spake unto Math. 9. verse 18. unto ver 27. The xxv Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. Except the Lord build the house c. Psal. 127. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. STir up we beseech thee O Lord the wills of thy faithful people that they plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works may of thee be plenteously rewarded through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Behold the time cometh Jer. 23. verse 3. unto ver 9. The Gospel When Jesus lift up his eyes John 6. verse 5. unto ver 15. Omitted in the 1 B. of Edw. 6. ¶ If there be any more Sundayes before Advent Sunday to supply the same shall be taken the service of some of those Sundayes that were omitted between the Epiphany and Septuagesima W. Saint Andrews day 1 B. of Edw. 6. Many times have they fought against me c. Psal. 129. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. ALmighty God which didst give such grace unto thy holy apostle saint Andrew that he readily obeyed the calling of thy sou Jesus Christ and followed him without delay grant unto us all that we being called by thy holy word may forthwith give over our selves obediently to follow thy holy commandments through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle If thou knowledge with thy Rom. 10. verse 9. unto the end The Gospel As Jesus walked by the Matth. 4. verse 18. unto verse 23. Saint Thomas the Apostle 1 B. of Edw. 6. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord c. Psal. 128. Glory be to the father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. ALmighty everlasting God which for the more confirmation of the faith didst suffer the holy Apostle Thomas to be doubtful in thy sons resurrection grant us so perfectly and without all doubt to beleeve in thy son Jesus Christ that our faith in thy sight never be reproved hear us O Lord through the same Jesus Christ to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour c. The Epistle Now ye are not strangers Ephes. 2. verse 19. unto the end The Gospel Thomas one of the twelve John 20. verse 24. unto the end X The conversion of St. Paul 1. B. of Edw. 6. at Mattens The second Lesson Acts 22 unto they heard him I will give thanks unto thee O Lord c. Psal. 138. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. GOd which hast taught all the world through the preaching of thy blessed Apostle saint Paul grant we beseech thee that we which have his wonderful conversion in remembrance may follow and fulfil thy holy doctrine that he taught through Jesu Christ our Lord. The Epistle And Saul yet breathing out Act. 9. verse 1 unto ver 25. The Gospel Peter answered and said unto Matth. 19. verse 24. unto the end 1. B. of Edw. the 6. at Evensong The second Lesson Acts 26. unto the end Y. The purification of Saint Mary the Virgin 1 B. of Edw. 6. Behold now praise the Lord c. Psal. 134. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the
of thy son our Saviour Jesus Christ and doest assure us thereby of thy favour and goodnesse towarâ— us and that we be very members incorporate in thy mistical body which is the blessed company of all faithful people and be also heires through hope of thy everlasting kingdom by the merits of the most precious death and passion of thy dear son We now most humbly beseech thee O heavenly father so to assist us with thy grace that we may continue in that holy fellowship and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen Then shall be said or song Scot. Lit. Gloria in Excelsis in English GLory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men We praise thee we blesse thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord God heavenly king God the father almighty O Lord the onely begotten son Jesu Christ O Lord God lamb of God son of the father that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our prayers thou that sittest at the right hand of God the father have mercy upon us For thou onely art holy thou onely art the Lord thou onely O Christ with the holy ghost art most high in the glory of God the father Then the minister or the Bishop if he be present shall let them depart with this blessing THE peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his son Jesu Christ our Lord. And the blessing of God almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you alwayes Amen Scot. Lit. After the Divine service is ended that which was offered shall be divided in the presence of the Presbyter and the Church-wardens whereof one half shall be to the use of the Presbyter to provide him books of holy divinity the other half shall be faithfully kept and imployed on some pious or charitable use for the decent furnishing of that Church or the publick relief of their poor at the discretion of the Presbyter and Church-wardens Collects to be said after the Offertory when there is no Communion every such day one And the same may be said also as often as occasion shall serve after the Collects either of Morning and Evening prayer Communion or Letany by the discretion of the Minister ASsist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants toward the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen OAlmighty Lord and everliving God vouchsafe we beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both our hearts and bodies in the wayes of thy laws and in the works of thy commandments that through thy most mighty protection both here and ever we may be preserved in body and soul through our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ Amen GRant we beseech thee almighty God that the words which we have heart this day with our outward ears may through thy grace be so graffed inwardly in our hearts that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living to the honour and praise of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God the fountain of all wisdom which knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking we beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities and those things which for our unworthy nesse we dare not and for our blindnesse we cannot ask vouchsafe to give us for the worthynesse of thy son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God which hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy sons name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Common Prayer 1 B. of Edw. 6. T Upon the holy dayes if there be no Communion shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion untill the end of the Homily concluding with the general prayer for the whole state of Christs Church miliant here in earth and one or more of these Collects before rehearsed as occasion shall serve Upon Wednesdayes and Fridayes the English Litany shall be said or sung in all places after such form as is appointed by the Kings Majestyes Injunctions or as is or shall be otherwise appointed by his Highnesse And though there be none to Communicate with the Priest yet these dayes after the Litany ended the Priest shall put upon him a plain Alb or surplesse with a Cope and say all things at the Altar appointed to be said at the celebration of the Lords supper until after the Offertory And then shall adde one or two of the Collects afore written as occasion shall serve by his discretion And then turning him to the people shall let them depart with the accustomed blessing And the same order shall be used all other dayes whensoever the people be customably assembled to pray in the Church and none disposed to Communicate with him Common Prayer 1 B. of Edw. 6. And there shall be no Scot. Lit. publick celebration of the Lords Supper except there be a good number to Communicate with the Minister according to his discretion Likewise in Chappels annexed and all other places there shall be no celebration of the Lords Supper except there be some to Communicate with the Priest And in such Chappels annexed where the people hath not been accustomed to pay any holy bread there they must either make some charitable provision for the bearing of the charges of the Communion or else for receiving of the same resort to their Parish Church Common Prayer 1 B. of Edw. 6. And if there be not above twenty persons in the Parish of discretion to receive the Communion yet there shall be no Communion except four or three at the least Communicate with the Minister Also that the receiving of the Sacrament of the Blessed Body and blood of Christ may be most agreeable to the institution thereof and to the usage of the Primitive Church In all Cathedral
Then shall the Minister say 1 B. of Edw. 6. O Merciful God grant that the old Adam in these children may be so buried that the new man may be raised up in them Amen O merciful God grant that the old Adam in them that shall be baptised in this fountain may so be buried that the new man may be raised again Amen Grant that all carnal affections may die in them and that all things belonging to the spirit may live and grow in them Amen Grant that all carnal offections may die in them and that all things belonging to the spirit may live and grow in them Amen Grant that they may have power and strength to have victory and triumph against the devil the world and the flesh Amen Grant to all them which at this fountain forsake the Devil and all his works that they may have power and strength to have victory and to triumph against him the world and the flesh Amen Whosoever shall confesse thee O Lord recognise him also in thy kingdom Amen Grant that all sin and vice here may be so exstinct that they never have power to reign in thy servants Amen Grant that whosoever here shall begin to be of thy flock may evermore continue in the same Amen Grant that all they which for thy sake in this life do deny and forsake themselves may win and purchase thee O Lord which art everlasting treasure Amen Common Prayer Grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our office and Ministry may also be endued with thy heavenly vertues and everlastingly rewarded through thy mercy O blessed Lord God who doest live and govern all things world without end Amen ALmighty everliving God whose most dearly beloved son Jesus Christ for the forgivenesse of our sins did shed out of his most pretious side both water and blood and gave commandment to his disciples that they should go teach all nations and baptise them in the name of the father the son and of the holy ghost Regard we beseech thee the supplications of the congregation and grant that all thy servants which shall be baptised in this water Scot. Lit. which we here blesse and dedicate in thy name to this spiritual washing may receive the fulnesse of thy grace and ever remain in the number of thy faithful and elect children through Jesus Christ our Lord.  1 B. of Edw. 6. Then shall the Minister take the child in his hands and ask the name K and naming the childe shall L dip it in water so it be discretly and warily done saying Then shall the Priest take the childe in his hands and ask the name and naming the childe shall dip it in the water M thrice First dipping the right side Secondly the left side the third time dipping the face toward the font So it be discreetly and warily done saying N. I baptise thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy ghost Amen N. I baptise thee c. And if the childe be weak it shall sufffice to power water upon it saying the same words And if the childe be weak it shall suffice to poure water upon it saying the foresaid words I baptise thee c. Then the Godfathers and Godmothers shall take and lay their hands upon the children and the Minister shall put upon him his white vesture N commonly called the Chrysom And say N. I baptise thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Amen  Take this white vesture for a token of the Innocence which by Gods grace in this holy Sacrament of Baptisme is given unto thee and for a signe where by thou art admonished so long as thou livest to give thy self to innocence of living that after this transitory life thou mayest be partaker of the life everlasting Amen Then the Priest shall O anoint the infant upon the head saying Almighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. who hath regenerate thee by water and the holy Ghost and hath given unto thee remission of all thy sins he vouchsafe to anoint thee with the unction of his holy spirit and bring thee to the inheritance of everlasting life Amen When there are many to be baptised this order of demanding Baptising puting on the Crysome and anointing shall be used severally with every childe Those that be first Baptised departing from the Font and remaining in some convenient place within the Church until all be baptised Common prayer P Then the minister shall make a crosse upon the childs forehead saying WE receive this childe into the Scot. Lit. Church of Christ Congregation of Christs flock and do signe him with the signe of the crosse in token that hereafter be shall not be ashamed to confesse the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his banner against sin the world and the devil and to continue Christs faithful soldier and servant unto his lives end Amen Then shall the Minister say SEeing now dearly beloved brethren that these children be regenerate and grafted into the body of Christs congregation let us give thanks unto God for these benefits and with one accord make our prayers unto almighty God that they may lead the rest of tâ—â—ir life according to this beginning Then shall be said Our father which art in heaven c. Then shall the Minister say WE yeeld thee hearty thanks most merciful father that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy holy spirit to receive him for thine own childe by adoption and to incorporate him into thy holy congregation And humbly we veseech thee to grant that he being dead unto sin and living unto righteousnesse and being buried with Christ in his death may crucifie the old man and utterly abolish the whole body of sin that as he is made partaker of the death of thy son so he may be partaker of his resurrection so that finally with the residue of thy holy congregation he may be inheritor of thine everlasting kingdom through Christ our Lord Amen At the last end the Minister calling the Godfathers and Godmothers together shall say this exhortation following FOrasmuch as these children have promised by you to forsake the devil and all his works to beleeve in God and to serve him you must remember that it is your parts and duties to see that these infants be taught so soon as they shall be able to learn what a solemn vow promise and profession they have made by you And that they may know these things the better ye shall call upon them to hear sermons And cheefly ye shall provide that they may learn the Creed the Lords prayer and the ten Commandments in the English tongue and all other things which a Christian man ought to know and beleeve to his souls health and that these children may be vertuously brought up to lead a godly and a Christian life remembring alwayes that baptisme doth represent unto us
corruption so that the spirit be milde and quiet which is a precious thing in the sight of God For after this manner in the old time did the holy women which trusted in God apparel themselves being subject to their own husbands As Sara obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters ye are made doing well and not being dismaid with any fear The new married persons the same day of their marriage N must receive the holy Communion O The order for the visitation of the Sick The Minister entring into the sick persons house shall say Peace be in this house and to all that dwell in it Common Prayer 1. B. of Edw. 6. When he cometh into the sick persons presence he shall say kneeling down When he cometh into the sick persons presence he shall say this Psalm Hear my prayer O Lord and consider my desire hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousnesse sake c. Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the Beginning c. With this Anthem REmember not Lord our iniquities nor the iniquities of our forefathers spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our father which art in heaven c. And lead us not into temptation Answer But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servant Answer Which putteth his trust in thee Minister Send him help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend him Minister Let the enemy have none advantage of him Answer Nor the wicked approach to hurt him Minister Be unto him O Lord a strong tower Answer From the face of his enemie Minister Lord hear our 1 B. of Edw. 6. my prayers Answer And let our 1 B. of Edw. 6. cry come unto thee The Minister 1 B. of Ed. 6. Let us pray O Lord look down from heaven behold visit and relieve this thy servant look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy give him comfort and sure confidence in thee defend him from the danger of the enemy and keep him in perpetual peace and safety through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen HEar us almighty and most merciful God and Savior extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant which is grieved with sickness visit him O Lord as thou didst visit Peters wives mother and the Captains seruant So visit and restore to this sick person his former health if it be thy will or else give him grace so to take thy visitation that after this painful life ended he may dwell with thee in life everlasting Amen Then shall the Minister exhort the sick person after this form or other like DEarly beloved know this that Almighty God is the Lord of life and death and over all things to them pertaining as youth strength health age weakness and sickness Wherefore whatsoever your sickness is know you certainly that it is Gods visitation And for what cause soever this sickness is sent unto you whether it be to try your patience for the example of other and that your faith may be found in the day of the Lord laudable glorious and honorable to the increase of glory and endless felicity or else it be sent unto you to correct and amend in you whatsoever doth offend the eyes of your heavenly Father know you certainly that if you truly repent you of your sins and bear your sickness patiently trusting in Gods mercy for his dear Son Jesus Christ sake and render unto him humble thanks for his fatherly visitation submitting your self wholly to his will it shall turn to your profit and help you forward in the right way that leadeth unto everlasting life If the person visited be very sick then the Curate may end his exhortation in this place Take therefore in good worth the chastisment of the Lord. For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth Yea as St. Paul saith he scourgeth every son which he receiveth If ye endure chastisement he offereth himself unto you as unto his own children What son is he that the Father chastiseth not If ye be not under correction whereof all true children are pattakers then are ye bastards and not children Therefore seeing that when our carnal fathers â—o correct us we reverently obey them shall we not now much rather be obedient to our spiritual Father and so live And they for a few days do chastise us after their own pleasure but he doth chastise us for our profit to the intent he may make us partakers of his holiness These words good brother are Gods words and written in holy scripture for our comfort and instruction that we should patiently and with thanksgiving bear our heavenly Fathers correction whensoever by any maner of adversity it shall please his gracious goodness to visit us And there should be no greater comfort to Christian persons then to be made like unto Christ by suffering patiently adversities troubles and sicknesses For he himself went not up to joy but first he suffered pain he entred not into his glory before he was cruâ—ified So truly our way to eternal Joy is to suffer here with Christ and our door to enter into eternal life is gladly to die with Christ that we may rise again from death and dwell with â—â—m in everlasting life New therefore taking your sickness which is thus profitable for you patiently I exhort you in the name of God to remember the profession which you made unto God in your Baptism And forasmuch as after this life there is account to be given unto the righteous Judge of whom all must be judged without respect of persons I require you to examine your self and your state both toward God and man so that accusing and condemning your self for your own faults you may finde mercy at our heavenly Fathers hand for Christs sake and not be accused and condemned â—iâ— that fearful Judgement Therefore I shall shortly rehearse the Articles of our Faith that you may know whether you do believe as a Christian man should or â—o P Then the Minister shall rehearse the Articles of the Eaith saying thus Doest thou believe in God the Father Almighty And so forth as it is in Baptism Then shall the Minister examine Q whether he be in charity with all the world exhorting him to forgive from the bottom of his heart all persons that have offended him and if he have offended other to ask them forgiveness And where he hath done injury or wrong to any man that he make amends to the uttermost of his power And if he have not afore disposed his goods let him then make his will But men must be oft admonished that they set an order for their temporal goods and lands when they be in health and also declare his debts what he oweth and what is owing unto him for discharging of his conscience and quietness of
his executors These words before rehearsed may be said before the Minister begin his Prayer as he shall see cause R The Minister may not forget nor omit to move the sick person and that most instantly to liberality toward the poor S Here shall the sick person make a special confession if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter After which confession the Minister shall absolve him after this sort 1 B. of Edw. 6. and the same form of Absolution shall be used in all private confessions OUr Lord Jesus Christ who hath left power to his Church to absolve all sinners which truly repent and believe in him of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences and by his authority committed to me I absolve thee from all thy sins In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Amen And then the Minister shall say the Collect following Let us pray O Most merciful God which according to the multitude of thy mercies doest so put away the sins of those which truly repent that thou remembrest them no more open thine eye of mercy upon this thy servant who most earnestly desireth pardon and forgiveness Renue in him most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the devil or by his own carnal will and frailness preserve and continue this sick member in the unity of thy Church consider his contrition accept his tears asswage his pain as shal be seen to thee most expedient for him And forasmuch as he putteth his full trust onely in thy mercy impute not to him his former sins but take him unto thy favor through the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ Amen Then the Minister shall say this Psalm In thee O Lord have I put my trust Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. Adding this 1 B of Edw. 6. Adding this Anthem O Saviour of the World save us which by thy crosse and pretious blood hast redeemed us help us we beseech thee O God Then shall the Minister say THE almighty Lord which is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him to whom all things in heaven in earth and under the earth do bow and obey be now and evermore thy defence and make thee know and feel that there is none other name under heaven given to man in whom and through whom thou mapest receive health and salvation but onely the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen 1 B. of Edw. 6. If the sick person desire to be T anointed then shall the Priest anoint him upon the fore head or brest onely making the signe of the crosse saying thus As with this visible oyl thy body outwardly is anointed so our heavenly father Almighty God grant of his infinite goodnesse that thy soul inwardly may be anointed with the holy ghost who is the spirit of all strength comfort reliefe and gladnesse And vouchsafe for his great mercy if it be his blessed will to restore unto thee thy bodily health and strength to serve him and send thee release of all thy pains troubles and diseases both in body and minde And howloever his goodnesse by his divine and unsearchable providence shall dispose of thee we his unworthy Ministers and servants humbly beseech the eternal Majesty to do with thee according to the multitude of his innumerable mercies and to pardon thee all thy sins and offences committed by all thy bodily sences passions and carnal affections who also vouchsafe mercifully to grant unto thee ghostly strength by his holy spirit to withstand and overcome all temptations and assaults of thine adversary that in no wise he prevail against thee but that thou mayest have perfect victory and triumph against the Devil sin and death through Christ our Lord who by his death hath overcome the Prince of death and with the Father and the holy Ghost evermore liveth and reigneth God world without end Amen How long wilt thou forget me Lord. c. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Edition Lat. Buceri Si videtur commodum dicatur etiam hic Psalmus pro usitata ante haec tempora unctione usque quâ— Domine c. V The Communion of the sick FOR as much as all mortal men be subject to many sodain perils diseases and sicknesses and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life Therefore to the intent they may be alwayes in a readinesse to dye whensoever it shall please almighty God to call them the Curates shall diligently from time to time but specially in the plague time exhort their Parishioners to the oft receiving in the Church of the holy Communion of the body and blood of our Saviour Christ which if they do they shall have no cause in their sodain visitation to be unquiet for lack of the same But if the sick person be not able to come to the Church and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his house then he must give knowledge over night or else early in the morning to the Curate signifying also how many be appointed to Communicate with him 1 B. of Edw. 6. And if the same day there be a celebration of the holy Communion in the Church W then shall the Priest reserve at the open Communion so much of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood as shall serve the sick person and so many as shall Communicate with him if there be any And so soon as conveniently he may after the Communion ended in the Church shall go and Minister the same first to those that are appointed to Communicate with the sick if there be any and last of all to the sick person himself But before the Curate distribute the holy Communion the appointed general Confession must be made in the name of the Communicants the Curate adding the Absolution with the Comfortable sentences of Scripture following in the open Communion and after the Communion ended the Collect. Almighty and and everliving God we most hartily thank thee c. But if the day be not appointed for the open Communion in the Church then upon convenient warning given the Curate shall come and visit the sick Person afore-noon Common Prayer 1 B. of Edw. 6. And having a convenient Place in the sick mans house where the Curate may reverently Minister and a good number to receive the Communion with the sick person with all things necessary for the same he shall there minister the holy Communion And having a convenient place in the sick mans house where he may reverently celebrate with all things necessary for the same and not being otherwise letted with the Bublick service or any other just impediment he shall there celebrate the holy Communion after such form and sort as hereafter is appointed The celebration of the holy Communion for the sick
mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself I commend this soul to God the Father Almighty and thy Body to the ground c. Then shall be said or sung I Heard a voyce from Heaven saying unto me Write from henceforth Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord Even so saith the Spirit that they rest from their labors 1 B. of Edw. 6. Let us pray WE commend into thy hands of mercy most merciful Father the soul of this our Brother departed N. And his body we commit to the Earth beseeching thine infinite goodness to give us grace to live in thy fear and love and to die in thy favor that when the Judgement shall come which thou hast committed to thy well-beloved Son both this our Brother and we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee saying Come ye blessed Children of my Father Receive the Kingdom prepared for you before the beginning of the world Grant this merciful Eather for the Honor of Jesus Christ our onely Saviour Mediator and Advocate Amen This Prayer shall also be added ALmighty God we give thee hearty thanks for this thy servant whom thou hast delivered from the miseries of this wretched world from the body of death and all temptation And as we trust hast brought his soul which he committed into thy holy hands into sure consolation and rest Grant we beseech thee that at the day of Judgement his soul and all the souls of the elect departed out of this life may with us and we with them fully receive thy promises and be made perfect altogether through the glorious resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. These Psalms with other suffrages following are to be said in the Church either before or after the burial of the Corps I am well pleased that the Lord c. Psal. 116. Glory to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Praise the Lord O my soul c. Psalm 146. Glory to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. omitted by Bucer O Lord thou hast searched me out c. Psalm 139. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Then shall follow this Lesson taken out of the 15 Chapter to the Corinthians the first Epistle CHrist is risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept For by a man came death and by a man came the resurrection of the dead For as by Adam all die even so by Christ shall all be made alive but every man in his own order The first is Christ then they that are Christs at his coming Then cometh the end when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God the Father when he hath put down all rule and all authority and power For he must reign till he have put all his enemies under his feet The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death For he hath put all things under his feet But when he saith All things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him When all things are subdued unto him then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Else what do they which are baptized over the dead if the dead rise not at all Why are they then baptized over them yea and why stand we alway then in jeopardy By our rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesu our Lord I die daily That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the maner of men what advantageth it me if the dead rise not again Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die Be not ye deceived evil words corrupt good maners Awake truly out of sleep and sin not For some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame But some man will say How arise the dead With what body shall they come Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die And what sowest thou thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare corn as of wheat or some other But God giveth it a body at his pleasure to every seed his own body All flesh is not one maner of flesh but there is one maner of flesh of men another maner of flesh of beasts another of fishes another of birds There are also celestial bodies and there are bodies terrestrial But the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another There is one maner glory of the sun another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars For one star differeth from another in glory So is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it riseth again in incorruption it is sown in dishonor it riseth again in honor it is sown in weakness it riseth again in power it is sown a natural body it riseth again a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body as it is also written The first man Adam was made a liâ—ing soul and the last Adam was made a quickning spirit Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and then that which is spiritual The first man is of the earth earthy The second man is the Lord from Heaven heavenly As is the earthy such are they that be earthy And as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly And as we have born the image of the earthy so shall we bear the image of the heavenly This say I brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Behold I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep but we shall be changed and that in a moment in the twinckling of an eye by the last trump For the trump shall blow and the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shall be changed For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality When this corruptible hath put on incorruption and this mortal hath put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowen up Into victory Death where is thy sting Hell where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be unto God which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my dear brethren be ye stedfast and unmoveable always rich in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know how that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. The Lesson ended the Minister shall say Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father c. And leav us not c. Answer But deliver us from evil Amen 1 B. of Edw. 6. Priest Enter
whereof the Communion bare its part is called in Novella Leonis 112. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Connubial Initiation In order to this Communion I conceive it is that the Office is restreined to the forenoon which in ancient times was performed in the evening for which service lights and torches were part of the solemnity as Learned Grotius hath noted Confess I do that between the Customary excess of riot and licentious dissoluteness frequently attending Nuptial solemnities and this most dreadful Mystery there seemes to be impar congressus a mis-becoming greeting that they are of very different complexions and suit not well together Yet why should the Church in her most solemn and decent establishment give place to or be justled out by accessary abuses Why not rather the abuses themselves reformed so far as they stand separate from the rules of sobriety and Religion Such I am certain was the discipline of the Antient Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is not fit that Christians at weddings should use Balls and Dancing but to dine or sup temperately as becometh Christians The Order of the visitation of the sick The Method and Essentials of this Order is derived from St. James who directeth that in case of sicknesse the Presbyters should be sent for the intention of our Church is that they should come both sent for and unsent for and so was Polycharpus his Order 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let the Presbyters visit all such persons A duty of all most necessary at that time when both body and soul cry aloud for help and present help too or both must perish everlastingly The Minister must help to ransack all the sluts-corners of his patients soul to search narrowly into all his sins which unrepented of defile and pollute that consecrated Temple of the Holy Ghost help him he must by making spiritual applications of exhortation reproof consolation congruous with and suitable to his particular necessities and no time fitter for those applications than this when the carnal lusts and unruly passions languishing with the body they have all advantages for operation upon the soul. Then the Minister shall rehearse the Articles of his Faith It is an excellent saying of St. Augustine Male vivitur si de Deo non recte creditur We live ill yea and dye so too if of God we believe amiss Against male-fidians as well as against nulli-fidians and soâ—i-fidians Heaven gates are certainly kept close barred A most sad speculation it is to cast a reflex upon many myriads of men in their exterior morals very splendid which pass away into eâ—ernity and miscarry for default of a true belief in the main fundamentals of their salvation Whether he be in Charity There is not any duty more enforced in the Gospel than that of Brotherly reconciliation Christs aphorism enforceth it If you forgive not men their trespasses no more will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses Where mercy and forgiveness are made the condition annext to Gods pardoning our sins Again Christ whose followers we must be his practice enforceth it Father forgive them Luke the 23. 34. So he to his very Persecuters and to Steven Lord lay not this sin to their charge what were his last and dying words should properly be ours Lastly The Parable of that servus nequam that unjust and implacable servant enforceth it his doom it was and will certainly be ours to be delivered to the tormenters the Devil and his Angels unless we totally and cordially forgive all that have wronged us The Minister may not forget c. Charity stands upon two legs forgiving and giving the Church having endeavoured by her Minister to raise the first part of this grace in the sick persons comes now to the second shewing mercy and compassion to the poor This is called doing good and they in whom this grace hath abounded are said to be Rich in good works 1 Tim. 6. 17. And the better to excite worldlings to it it is called laying up in store If then our deeds of Charity to the Poor are our goods works and good works are our only moveables which shall follow us to another world no time more seasonable for them than sickness when we are packing up to be gone Confession and Absolution Here the Church approveth of though she doth not command Auricular confession Many times poor soules lye labouring under the pangs of an horrid reflex upon the number or greatness of their sins and the dreadful wrath of God deservedly expected for them In this case no remedy comparable to an humble and sincere confession at large common to all and sometimes restreined to some one particular predominant sin of whose pressure he finds the greatest weight upon which confession mixt with a vehement and earnest plying the Throne of God for mercy it becomes the Minister instantly to interpose to lay before him the inexhaustible treasure of Gods infinite mercies to assure him of his interest therein and upon the hypothesis of his contrition to be serious and unfeigned to give him Absolution Not that at the moment of such Absolution and not before the sinners pardon is sealed in Heaven which is done at the very first minute of his repentance if to the great Critick of hearts as he calls himself the All-seeing God it appeareth cordial but that that Pardon be evidenced to him and manifested by unspeakable comforts usually flowing into a disconsolate soul upon the pronouncing of such Absolution God thereby countenancing and giving reputation both to his word and Ministery But there being two Absolutions mentioned in the former Offices one at Morning Prayer and the other in the Communion service it may be demanded why only this is in the first person I absolve thee The answer is there are three Opinions concerning Absolution The first entertained by a few conceive it Optative precarious or by petition only as praying for the pardon of the sins of the Penitent The second think it Declaratory only that is pronouncing the Penitent absolved by applying Gods promises to the signs of his contâ—ition Lastly some contend that it is Authoritative as deriving power and commission from God not to declare the party absolved but for the Priest to do it in words denoting the first Person All these three opinions our Church seemeth in part to favour the first under these words Almighty God have mercy on you pardon and deliver â—ou c. Absolution for the Communion The second under these words Hath given charge and command to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being Penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sins The last by these words I absolve thee Which Authoritative Absolution is rather proper here because where the Priest absolves in his own person his Absolution is not fitly applicable to any but such as have given him evident tokens of hearty sorrow for their sins such as Divine chastisements usually causeth Extendible it is
Then shall they call upon me saith the Lord but I will not hear they shall seek me early but they shall not finde me and that because they hated knowledge and received not the fear of the Lord but abhorred my counsel and despised my correction Then shall it be to late to knock when the door shall be shut and to late to cry for mercy when it is the time of justice O terrible voice of most just judgement which shall be pronounced upon them when it shall be said unto them Go ye cursed into the fire everlasting which is pâ—epared for the Devil and his angels Therefore brethren take we heed be time while the day of salvation lasteth for the night cometh when none can work But let us while we have the light believe in the light and walk as the children of the light that we be not cast into the utter darkness where is weeping and â—nashing of teeth Let us not abuse the goodness of GOD which calleth us mercifully to amendment and of his endless pitty promiseth us forgiveness of that which is past if with a whole minde and true heart we return unto him For though our sins be as red as scarlet they shall be as white as snow And though they be like purple yet shall they be as white as wool Turn you clean saith the Lord from all your wickedness and your sins shall not be your destruction Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done make you new hearts and a new spirit Wherefore will ye die O ye house of Israel seeing that I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Turn you then and you shall live Although we have sinned yet have we an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he it is that obtaineth grace for our sins For he was wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickedness Let us therefore return unto him who is the merciful receiver of all true penitent sinners assuring our selves that he is ready to receive us and most willing to pardon us if we come to him with faithful repentance if we will submit our selves unto him and from henceforth walk in his ways If we will take his easie yoke and light burthen upon us to follow him in holiness patience and charity and be ordered by the governance of his holy spirit seeking always his glory and serving him duly in our vocation with thanksgiving This if we do Christ will deliver us from the curse of the Law and from the extream malediction which shall light upon them that shall be set on the left hand and he will set us on his right hand and give us the blessed benediction of his Father commanding us to take possession of his glorious kingdom unto the which he vouchsafe to bring us all for his infinite mercy Amen Then shall they all kneel upon their knees and the Ministers and Clarks kneeling where they are accustomed to say the Letany shall say the Psalm HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin For I knowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me Against thee onely I have sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sinne hath my mother conceived me But loâ— thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly Thou shalt purge me with hysope and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my mis-deeds Make me a clean Heart O GOD and renew a right Spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from blood-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness Thou shalt open my lips O Lord my mouth shall shew thy praise For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offering The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise O be favorable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer yong bullocks upon thine altar Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning is now c. Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our father which art in heaven c. And lead us not into temptation Answer â—â—t deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servants Answer Which put their trust in thee Minister Send unto them help from above Answer And evermore mightily defend them Minister Holy as O God our saviour Answer And for the glory of thy names sake deliver us be merciful unto us sinners for thy names sake Minister O Lord hear our prayers Answer And let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord we â—eseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those which confesse their sins to thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father which hast compassion of all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made which wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us which be grieved and wearied with the burden of 〈◊〉 Thy property is to have mercy to thee onely it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed Enter not into judgement with thy servants which be vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine â—re from us which meekly knowledge our vilenesse and truely repent us of our faults so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister 1 B. of Edw 6. Then shall this Anthem be said or sung TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people which turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying for thou art
a merciful God full of compassion long suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment aâ—d in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them and let not thine inheritage be brought to confusion hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us After this in the 1 B. of Edw. 6. followeth the Declaration concerning Ceremonies why some are abolished and some retained Then Certain notes for the more plain explication and decent Ministration of things contained in this book In the saying or singing of mattens c. as in the Rubrick before morning prayer And whensoever the Bishop shall celebrate c. Ibid ubi supra As touching kneeling Crossing holding up of hands knocking upon the breast and other gestures they may be used or left as every mans devotion serveth without blame Also upon Christmas-day Easter-day the Ascention day Whitsunday and the feast of the Trinity may be used any part of the holy Scripture hereafter to be certainly limitted appointed in the stead of the Litany if there be a Sermon or for other great cause the I Curate by his discretion may leave out the Litany Gloria in Excelsis the Creed K the Omely and the Exhortation to the Communion L Imprinted at London in Fleet-street at the signe of the Sun over against the Conduit by Edward Whitchurch the 7. day of March in the year of our Lord 1549. Annotations upon CHAP. XI A The grounds of Thanksgiving after Childebirth why rather for this than other deliverances B Our Church doth not Judaize Difference betwixt our practice and Jewish Purification C What meant by the word Church into which the woman is to come D The woman not enjoined a veil F The 121 Psalm not abused E But deliver us from evil why returned by way of response F Commination how often used in the year G Why read in the Pulpit A discourse of reading-Desks none settled by Rule before the Canons 1603. upon what occasion devised H A Discourse of publick Pennance By whom it was imposed and how long to continue The several motions of it in the Greek Church What meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what and what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Errours noted in the Editions of Zonaras and Balsamon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what Penitential customes in the Western Church Affrica most severe and why The ancient mode of Excommunicating of notorious offenders out of Gratian Discourse upon it Adgeniculi charis Dei in Tertullian Penitents when reconciled in the Latine Church The Ancient Discipline commended and Vote for its restauration I What meant by the word Curate in our Liturgy K Homilies whither part of our Churches Service And whither the Doctrine of our Church L Calvins Epistle to the Protector misdated in all Editions THE Thanksgiving of women after Childebirth when holy Scripture is concerned most graphically to describe sorrow superlative and at the height it assiimilateth it to that of a woman in travail If this sorrow be so excessive how great must the joy be to be delivered from that sorrow commensurate certainly and of adequate proportion and no less must the dues of thankfulness be to the Benefactour the Donor of that Recovery whence a necessity of Thanksgiving of women after chide-birth But cannot this as well be done in private at home in her family or in her closet without putting the Church to the cost of contriving a solemn Office for it considering there are other personal deliverances wherein the dispensations of Gods mercy are as manifest whereof she takes no notice I answer Other Deliverances present themselves in so many scheames some being from fire some from water some from the casual ruine of houses and other things endangering us some from our own precipitations some in warr some in peace c. as it is scarce possible to frame formes enough to suit all emergences and were they framed rarely would they be made use of in regard the occasions to which they relate so seldome occurr and then what would they prove but an unnecessary cumber whereas this Preservation out of Childe-bed pangs observeth one constant shape so as one form is applicable to all and almost dayly provoketh to the duty But it may be further opposed that Thousands are seased with corporal maladies which are accompanied with as great periclitation whom God sometimes even to miracle restoreth to their former strength that those demonstrations of his protection appear very frequent that one forme of Thanksgiving would commodiously enough agree with all yet hath the Church appointed no such Form I answer that our Church in this offer did not so much take measure of the peril as accomodate her self to that note of separation which God himself had put betwixt this and other maladies To conceive and bring forth in sorrow was signally inflicted upon Eve and in her upon all Mothers as a penalty for her first disobedience Multiplying I will multiply thy sorrowes and thy Conception the very breeding fits and nauseous qualmes constitute a part of this chastisement In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children i. e. the very fruit of thy womb which by an almighty Power thou shouldest otherwise have been delivered of without the least sense of pain shall henceforward in the very act of parturition put thee to extremity of Torment so that the sorrows of childe-birth have by Gods express determination a more direct and peculiar reference to Eves disobedience then any other disease whatsoever and though all maladies are the product of that first sin yet is the malediction fixed and apply'd in specification to this alone Now when that which was ordained primarily as a curse for the first sin is converted to so great a blessing God is certainly in that case more to be praised in a set and a solemn Office Churching of women The former word was Purification worthily expunged by our second Reformers this notwithstanding we are charged by some weak Opponents to Judaize in the office a slander certainly a great a sensless one and it will appear no less to any who shall compare the Jewish or Levitical and the English practice together First the Jewish woman was interdicted the Sanctuary forty dayes at least The English woman withdraweth but her moneth No Judaizing there Secondly The Jewish woman was forbidden because unclean expresly so the English woman abstaineth not upon any such account If she did First the customary circuit of the same cause would operate at every return the same effect sequestration from the Congregation in her as it did in the Jewish but our Church commands no such mensurnal forbearance Again the same pollution would as long debar her Infant also as it did the Jewish which must needs take part of the Mothers impurity but our Church not onely aâ—mitteth but commands all Infants where necessity interposeth not into the Church within a week at the farthest So
the festivals of the Heathen scituated under the same parallel of legality may not also be converted into Christian Holy-dayes CHAP. III. The order where Morning and Evening prayer shall be used and said Common prayer 2. B. of Edw. 6. THE morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed place of the Church Chappel or Chancel B except it shall be otherwise determined by the Ordinary of the Place C And the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past The morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in such places of the Church Chappel or Chancel and the Minister shal so turn him as the people may best hear And if there be any controversie therein the matter shall be referred to the Ordinary and he or his deputy shall appoint the place And the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past 1. B. of Edw. 6. The Common prayer 2. Book of Edw. 6. In the saying or singing of Mattens and Evensong Baptizing Burying the Minister in Parish Churches and Chappels annext to the same E shall use a Surplice And in all Cathedral Churches and Colledges the Arch-Deacons Deans Provosts Masters Prebendaries and fellows being Graduates may use in the quire besides their Surplices such hoods as pertaine to their several degrees which they have taken in any university within this Realm But in all other places every Minister shall be at liberty to use any Surplice or no. It is also seemly that Graduats when they do preach should use such hoods as pertaine to their several degrees And here is to be noted that the Minister at the time of the Communion and at all other times in his ministration shall use D such ornaments in the Church as were in use by Authority of Parliament in the 2. year of the reign of King Edw. the 6th according to the act of Parliament set in the beginning of the Book And here is to be noted that the Minister at the time of the Communion and at all other times in his ministration shall use neither All Vestment nor cope but being Arch-Bishop or Bishop he shall have and wear a Rochet and being a Priest or Deacon he shall have and wear a surplice only  Scotch Liturgy  And whensoever the Bishop shall celebrate the holy Communion in the Church or execute any other publick ministration he shall have upon him beside his Rochet a Surplice or Alb and a Cope or Vestment and also his Pastoral staffe in his hand or else born or holden by his Chaplain And here is to be noted that the presbyter or Minister at the time of the Communion and at other times of his ministration shall use such Ornaments in the Church as are prescribed or shall be by his Majesty or his successors according to the Act of Parliament provided in that behalf  The Common Prayer 1. B. of Edw. 6. An order for Morning Prayer dayly throughout the year An order for Mattens dayly throughout the year At the beginning both of Morning Prayer and likewise of Evening Prayer F the Priest shall read with a loud voice some one of these sentences of the Scriptures that follow And then he shall say that which is written after the said sentences AT what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sin from the bottom of his heart I will put all his wickednesse out of my remembrance faith the Lord. I do know mine own wickednesse and my sin is alwaye against me Turn thy face away from our sins O Lord and blot out all our offences A sorrow til spirit is a sacrifice to God despise not O Lord humble and conâ—rite hearts Rent your hearts and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God because he is gentle and merciful he is patient and of much mercie and such a one that is sorry for your afflictions To thee O Lord God belongeth mercy and forgivenesse for we have gone away from thee and have not bearkened to thy voice whereby we might walk in thy laws which thou hast appointed for us Correct us O Lord and yet in thy judgement not in thy fury lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing Amend your lives for the kingdome of God is at hand I will go to my father and say to him Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee I am no more worthy to be called thy son Enter not into judgement with thy servants O Lord for no flesh is righteous in thy sight If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and there is no truth in us DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickednesse and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confesse them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgivenesse of the same by his infinite goodnesse and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sinnes before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits which we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which be requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as be here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the Throne of the heavenly grace saying after me A general confession to be said of the whole congregation after the Priest Scot. Liturgy all humbly kneeling ALmighty and most merciful father we have erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost sheep we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts we have offended against thy holy laws we have left undon those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done and there is no health in us but thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders spare thou them O God which confess their faults restore thou them that be penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankinde in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sover life to the glory of thy holy name Scotch Liturgy And the Salvation of our own souls Amen The absolution or remission of sins to be pronounced by the Priest alone Scot. Lit. he standing up and turning himself to the people but they still remaining humbly upon their knees Lmighty God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ which desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickednesse and live and hath given power and commandment to Scotch Lit. the Presbyters of his Church the ministers of his Gospel
Church Our manner of reading them most conformable to antiquity The Contents of the Chapters of what use Q The Primitive custome before every Lesson R The Benefit of mixing Psalmes or hymnes with Lessons S Te deum how ancient T Benedicite ancient V Benedictus and other hymns vindicated used by the Dutch Church W The Creed anciently no part of the Liturgy how imployed why called the Apostles the Catholick Church a phrase as ancient as Ignatius reason why so called The variety of Symbols whence derived why the Creed pronounced standing X The Lord be with you whence derived difference betwixt it and Peace be to you Y Let us pray an ancient formula Z Lord have mercy upon us c. called the Lesser Litany AA O Lord shew thy mercy upon us c. are canonical Scripture BB Collects why so called MOrning and Evening Prayer Prayer ought to be made as oft as occasion requireth as there is daily occasion so there must be daily prayer Our daily sins exact a daily confession our daily wants teach us as our Saviour prescribed us to say Give us this day our daily bread The Lords mercies are new every morning so should our prayers and thanksgivings be new in practice though the same in form Upon this account were the Diurnal sacrifices of the Temple upon this account did the Primitive Christians practice it sacrificia quot idie ceâ—â—bramus we daily offer sacrifices to God saith Cyyrian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Theodoret. Yea not only daily but twice a day at Morning and Evening according to the order of our Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Chrysostome all the faithful can bear witness of this how it is observed in the Morning and Evening Service and to the same purpose d Epiphanius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Morning Prayers and Hymns are continually used in the holy Church as also Evening Prayers and Hymns what these morning and evening hymns were shall be seen afterwards As for the hour of morning prayer with us it is nine in the forenoon agreeable to the Primitive practice of the Greek Church especially derived either from the miraculous descent of the holy Ghost at that hour upon the Apostles or from the Jewish custome of assembling for the performance of Religious duties at that hour their Third whereof instances there are enough in H. Scripture This in all probability of divine establishment not so I conceive the next or sixth in order of Canonical hours this being added by private devotion at which hour after dinner devout people resorted to the Temple to offer up their more pecular supplications in reference to their private and proper wants So Hannah rose up early after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk and went into the Temple and prayed unto the Lord. 1 Sam. 1. 9. whence old Eli mistook her to be drunk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith S. Chrysostome from the heat of the day for it was about noon So the Prophet David at Morning and Evening and at high noon day will I rise up to praise thee In conformity to which the Antient Christians preserved the same observation though satisfied I am not that it was an universal practice because Clemens Alexandrinus restraineth it to some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some allot set hours for Prayers the Third Sixth and Ninth Except it shall be otherwise determined by the Ordinary c. The first Reformat on putting a positive restraint that general upon all Divine Offices to the Chorus or Quire Bucer whose judgment was called in to aid by Arch-Bishop Cranmer in order to a future Reformation of our Liturgy justly faulted it wishing quam primum corrigi that with all expedition it might be mended for Oportet ut sacra omnia Populus audiant percipiant que religione summâ Fit it is that all holy offices the people should both hear and minde with all possible devotion and this they could not doe in such Churches where the high Altars were disposed very distant from the Nave or Body of the Church by the interposition of a Belfrey as in many places it happened Thereupon in the next Liturgy order was given for the service to be used in such places of the Church c. as the people might best hear And if controverted the Ordinary to determine the place Now the last Reformers in Q. Elizabeth her time observing that in many Churches the edification of the people might be secured and the ancient practice observed restored the service to its former station leaving notwithstanding an overruling power in the Ordinary to dispose it otherwise if he saw just cause so to doe Whereby it appeareth that the Bishops lately enjoyning the service to be said at the holy Table or in the Chancel did not innovate but held to the Rubrick and that the officiating in the Desk was a swerving from the rule unless where it was able to shew Episcopal dispensation expresly to warrant it And the Chancels shall stand as they have done In the beginning of the Reformation under King Edward the 6. his Reign Altars were taken down upon good and godly consideration as King Edwards Letter to Bishop Ridley imports But as there is no constat that all altars were then taken down for the letter speaketh but of most part not of all the Churches in the Realm so is it dubious whether they were taken down by publick order or popular tumult for the consideration might be good and Godly yet the way of proceeding therein not approvable But taken down they were and by way of concomitancy probably in many places the steps of ascent were levelled also set so as some were notwithstanding left in their former state about which much strife and contention arising in several places some eager to pull them down others as earnest to continue them The wisdom of the Church interposeth to part the fray ordering in this Rubrick no alteration to be attempted therein which notwithstanding the people in the begining of Queen Elizabeth her Reign began to be unquiet again in this particular so as she was enforced to restrain them by a new order in these words Also that the Steps which be as yet at this day remaining in any our Cathedral Collegiate or Pâ—rish Churches be not stirred nor altered but be suffered to continue And if in any Chancel the steps be transposed that they be not erected again but that the place be decently paved By which words evident it is Authority had no designe to end the dispute by closing with either party but by stating things in their present posture The minister shall use such Ornaments c. In the latter end of the Act for uniformity there was reserved to the Queen a power to make some further order with the advice of her Commissioners c. concerning Ornaments for Ministers but I do not finde that she made any use of that Authority or
of Edw. 6. O think upon thy servant as concerning thy word c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the Beginning c. The Collect. LOrd of all power and might which arâ— the author and giver of all good things graff in our hearts the love of thy name encrease in us true religion nourish us with all goodnesse and of thy great mercy keep us in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I speak grosly because Rom. 6. verse 19. unto the end The Gospel In those dayes Mark 8. verse 1. unto ver 10. The eight Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. Thou art my portion O Lord c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. GOd whose providence is never deceived we humbly beseech thee that thou wilt put away from us all hurtful things and give those things which be profitable for us through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Brethren we are debters Rom. 8. verse 12. unto verse 18. The Gospel Beware of false Prophets Matth. 7. verse 15. unto ver 22. The ninth Sundy after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. GRant to us Lord we beseech thee the spirit to think and do alwaies such things as be rightfull that we which cannot be without thee may by thee be able to live according to thy will through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Brethren I would not that 1 Cor. 10. verse 1. unto verse 14. The Gospel Jesus said unto his disciples Luke 16. verse 1. unto verse 10. The tenth Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. Thy hands have made and fashioned me c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning etc. The Collect. LEt thy merciful enrs O Lord be open to the prayers of thy humble servants and that they may obtain their petitions make them to aske such things as shall please thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Concering spiritual things 1 Cor. 12. verse 1. unto verse 12. The Gospel And when he was come near Luke 19. verse 41. unto verse 47. The eleventh Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. My soul hath longed for thy salvation c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. GOd which declarest thy Almighty power most chiefely in shewing mercy and pitie give unto us abundantly thy grace that we running to thy promises may be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure through Jesu Christ our Lord. The Epistle Brethren as pertaining to the Gospel 1. Cor. 15. ver 1 unto ver 12. The Gospel Christ told this parable Luke 18. verse 9. unto verse 15. The twelfth sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. O Lord thy word endureth for ever in heaven c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. ALmighty and everlasting God which art alwayes more ready to hear then we to pray and are wont to give more then either we desire or deserve powre down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid and giving unto us that that our prayer dare not presume to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle Such trust have we through 2 Cor. 3. verse 4. unto verse 10. The Gospel Jesus departed Mark 7. verse 31. unto the end The thirteenth Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. Lord what love have I unto thy Law c. Psal. 119. Glory to be the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. ALmighty and merciful God of whose onely gift it cometh that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service grant we beseech thee that we may so run to thy heavenly promises that we fail not finally to attain the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle To Abraham and his seed Gal. 3. ver 16. unto ver 23. The Gospel Happy are the eyes which Luke 10. ver 23. unto ver 38. The fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. Thy word is a Lanthorn unto my feet c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. ALmighty and everlasting God give unto us the increase of faith hope and charity and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise make us to love that which thou doest command through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I say walk in the Spirit Gal. 5. verse 16. unto ver 25. The Gospel And it chanced as Jesus went Luk. 17. verse 11. unto verse 20. The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. I hate them that imagine evil things c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. KEep we beseech thee O Lord thy Church with thy perpetual mercy And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall keep us ever by thy help and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Epistle Ye see how large a letter Gal. 6. verse 11. unto the end The Gospel No man can serve two Matters Mat. 6. verse 24. unto the end The sixteenth sunday after Trinity 1 B. of Edw. 6. I deal with the thing that is lawful and right c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitie clense and defend thy congregation And because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I desire that you faint not Ephes. 4. verse 13. unto the end The Gospel And it fortuned that Jesus Luke 7. verse 11. to verse 18. The seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. Thy testimonies are Wonderful c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. LOrd we pray thee that thy grace may alway prevent and follow us and make us continually to be given to all good works through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I which am a prisoner of the Lords Ephes. 4. verse 1. unto ver 7. The Gospel It chanced that Jesus went Luke 14 verse 1. unto ver 12. The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 1. B. of Edw. 6. Righteous art thou O Lord c. Psal. 119. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. LOrd we beseech thee grant thy people grace to avoid the infections of the Devil and with pure heart and mind to follow thee
relate to the holy Ghost were added by the Constantinopolitan fathers and some say framed by Gregory Nyssen but I see no full evidence for it As for the Publick use of this Creed in the dayly offices of the Church Durandus Polydor Virgil and some late Authors fixt the first original upon Marcus and Damasus Bishops of Rome But Walfridus Strabo who flourished 850. and therefore likelier to know the truth then his juniors delivereth no such thing referring us to the third Concel of Toledo celebrated Anno 589. And this Councel tells us whence she had it decreeing ut per omnes Ecclesias Hispaniae Galliciae secundùm forman Orient alium Ecclesiarum Concilii Constantinopolitani Symbolum recitetur that throughout all Churches of Spain and Gallicea according to the mode of whom of the Western No but of the Eastern Churches the Constantinopolitan Creed should be rehearsed Certainly had the use thereof been in the Church of Rome at this time the Councel would not have rambled unto the East for a president And confest it is by all Romanists generally that from the Greeks they had not onely the Creed it self but also the first hint of making it an Auctory to the Liturgy If so then it will be taken tardè to enter very late and very short of Damasus his time For Vossius from Theodorus Lector proveth evidently the Greeks themselves had it not very many years before this Councel Macedonius an Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople being violently expelled by Anastasius the Emperour to make way for Timotheus an heritick of the Eutychian Sect no soonor was Timotheus settled in his See but presently at the entreaty of his friends he ordered that the Constantinopolitan Creed should be said at every Church meeting or time of publick Prayer to the discredit of Macedonius as if he were disaffected to it whereas until that time it was onely rehearsed once a year when the Bishop Catechised on Maundy Thursday Thus Theodorus and this was about the year 511. which being the first hint we have in all antiquity of this or any other symbol represented as Parcel of the publick Liturgy we will give those Ritualists leave to say their pleasure and we will have the like liberry to think what we list But though the Church Primitive was â—low in imploying it as we now do they having designed it for other very Religious intents yet can that be no competent bar to us but we may both this and others dispose as we do to the best improvement of our faith and edification of the Common interest of the Church After the Creed if there be no Sermon In the Primitive service no Creed interposing the Sermon immediatly followed the Gospel and was an usual explication upon it whence I conceive the name Postil is derived quasi post illa Evangelia Postil being nothing but a discourse upon and subsequent to the Gospel These Popular discourses had in Antiquity various appcllations in the earliest times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the most usual so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word of exhortation Acts 13 14. So in Clemens his constitutions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 next let the Presbyters exhort the people then they called them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 homilies then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sermons Among the Latines St Cyprian especially Tractatus a tract is most familiar in Augustine and Ambrose disputatio a disputation frequently occurreth because therein they usually undertook the confutation of either Heathens Jews or hereticks Lastly Sermo a Sermon was then also in use Regularly and of courses the ancient form of bidding of prayers will here fall under cognisance and the rather because some thing like it is established by the Canons of our Church It s original extraction claiming precedency of consideration I shall begin with that The Agenda of Religion in our Church before the Reformation were performed it is well known in Latin a Language very inâ—difying to a non-intelligent people That so many so much interested and concerned in those sacred offices should not be totally excluded as idle spectators or fit for nothing but now and then to return an Amen to they knew not what this expedient was devised The people were exhorted to joyn in prayers according to certain heads dictated to them by the Minister in the English tongue observing the method and materials of the then Prayer for all States so that of all the service then used this onely could properly be called Common-Prayer as being the onely form wherein the whole Congregation did joyn in consort and therefore the title of it in the Injunctions of Edw. 6. Anno 1547. is The form of bidding the Common-prayers Now because it was made by Allocution or speaking to the people agreeing with what the Primitive Church called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it was called Bidding of prayers Thus in short as to the ground of this ancient form will you now see the form it self behold it here After a laudable custom of our Mother holy Church ye shall kneel down moving your hearts unto Almighty God and making your special prayers for the three Estates concerning all Christian people i. e. for the Spiritually the Temporalty and the soules being in the paines of Purgatory First for our holy Father the Pope with all his Cardinals for all Arch-Bishops and Bishops and in special for my Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury your Metropolitan and also for my Lord Bishop of this Diocesse and in general for all Parsons Vicars and Parish Priests having cure of souls with the Ministers of Christs Church as well Religious as not Religious Secondly ye shall pray for the unity and peace of all Christian Realms and especially for the Noble Realm of England for our Sovereign Lord the King c. and for all the Lords of the Councel and all other of the Nobility which dwell in the Countries having protection and governance of the same That Almighty God may send them grace so to govern and rule the Land that it may be pleasing unto Almighty God wealth and profit to the Land and salvation to their souls Also ye shall pray for all those that have honoured the Church with light lamp vestment or Bell or with any other ornaments by which the service of Almighty God is the better maintained and kept Furthermore ye shall pray for all true travellers and tillers of the earth that truely and duely done their duty to God and holy Church as they be bound to do Also ye shall pray for all manner of fruits that be done upon the ground or shall be that Almighty God of his great pitty and mercy may send such wedderings that they may come to the sustenance of man Ye shall pray also for all those that be in debt or deadly sin that Almighty God may give them grace to come out thereof and the sooner by our prayer Also ye shall pray for all those that be sick or diseased either in
sin we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propiciation for our sins After which the Minister shall proceed saying Lift up your hearts Answer We life them up unto the Lord. Minister Let us give thanks unto our Lord God Answer It is meet and right so to do Minister It is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord holy father almighty everlasting God Here shall follow the proper preface according to the time if there be any specially appointed Or else immediately shall follow Therefore with angels c. Proper Prefaces Upon Christmas day and seven dayes after BEcause thou didest give Jesus Christ thine onely son to be born as this day for us who by the operation of the holy Ghost was made very man of the substance of virgin Mary his mother and that without spot of sin to make us clean from all sin Therefore with c. Upon Easter day and seven dayes after BUt thiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious resurrection of thy son Jesus Christ our Lord for he is the very Pascal Lamb which was offered for us and hath taken away the sin of the world who by his death hath destroyed death and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life Therefore with c. Upon the Ascention day and seven dayes after THrough thy most dearly beloved son Jesus Christ our Lord who after his most glorious resurrection manifestly appeared to all his Apostles and in their sight ascended up into heaven to prepare a place for us that where he is thither might we also ascend and reign with him in glory Therefore with angels c. Upon Whitsunday and six dayes after THrough Jesus Christ our Lord according to whose most true promise the holy ghost came down this day from heaven with a sodain great sound as it had been a mighty winde in the likenesse of fiery tongues lighting upon the apostles to teach them and to lead them to all truth giving them both the gift of divers languages and also boldnesse with servent zeal constantly to preach the Gospell unto all nations whereby we are brought out of darknesse and errour into clear light and true knowledge of thee and of thy son Jesus Christ. Therefore with c. Upon the Feast of Trinity onely IT is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to thee O Lord almighty and everlasting God which art one God one Lord not one onely person but three persons in one substance For that which we beleeve of the glory of the father the same we beleeve of the son and of the holy Ghost without any difference or inequality Therefore with c. After which prefaces shall follow immediately THerefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laude and magnifie thy glorious name evermore praysing thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and earth are full of thy glory glory be to thee O Lord most high Then shall the Minister 1 B. of Edw. 6. turning himself to Gods boord kneel down and kneeling down at Gods boord say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion this Scot. Lit. Collect of humble accesse to the holy Communion as followeth prayer following WE do not presume to come to this thy table O merciful Lord trusting in our own righteousnesse but in thy manifold and great mercies We be not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbes under thy table But thou art the same Lord whose property is alwayes to have mercy Grant us therefore gratious Lord so to eat the flesh of thy dear son Jesus Christ and to drink his blood that our sinfull bodies may be made clean by his body and our souls washed through his most precious blood and that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us Amen Common Prayer Scot. Lit. Then the Minister standing up shall say as followeth Then the Presbyter standing up shall say the prayer of consecration as followeth but then during the time of Consecration he shall stand at such a part of the holy Table where he may with the more ease and decency use both his hands ALmighty God our heavenly Father which of thy tender mercy didst give thine onely son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the crosse for our Redemption who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world and did institute and in his holy Gospel commandus to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again Hear us O merciful Father we beseech thee Scot. Lit. 1 B. of Edw. 6. And of thy almighty goodnesse vouchsafe so to blesse and sanctifie with thy word and holy Spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son so that we receiving them according c. And with thy holy spirit and word vouchsafe to blesse and sanctifie these thy creatures and gifts of bread and wine that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ who in the same night that he was c. And grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine according to thy son our Saviour Jesus Christs holy institution in remembrance of his death and passion may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood who in the same night that he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to his disciples saying K Take eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me Likewise after supper he took the Cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying Drink ye all of this for this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for you and for many for remission of sinnes do this as â—â—t as you shall drink it in remembrance of me Scot. Lit. 1 B. of Edw. 6. At these words took bread that Presbyter that officiates is to take the patten in his hand Here the Priest must take the bread into his hands At these words took the cup he is to take the chalice in his hand and lay his hand upon so much be it in the chalice or slaggon as he intends to consecrate Here the Priest shall take the cup into his hands Scot. Lit. 1 B. of Edw. 6. Immediately after shall be said this memorial or Prayer of Oblation as followeth These words before rehearsed are to be said turning still to the Altar without any elevation or shewing the Sacrament to the people Wherefore O Lord and heavenly Father according to the institution of
thy dearly beloved Son our Saviour Jesus Christ we thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before thy divine majesty with these thy holy gifts the memorial which thy Son hath willed us to make L having in remembrance his blessed passion mighty resurrection and glorious ascension rendring thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same entirely desiring thy fatherly goodnesse to accept c. as in the prayer after the Elements delivered 1 B. of Edw. 6. Let us pray Scot. Lit. Then shall the Presbyter say As our Saviour Christ hath commanded and taught us we are bold to say Our Father c. The Answer But deliver us from evil Amen Then shall the Priest say The peace of the Lord be alway with you The Clerk And with thy spirit The Priest Christ our paschal Lamb is offered up for us once for all when he bare our sinnes on his body upon the Crosse for he is the very Lamb of God that taketh away the sinns of the World wherefore let us keep a joyful and holy feast with the Lord. Scotch Liturgy Common Prayer 1. B. of Edw. 6t  Then shall the Byshop if he be present or else the Presbyter that celebrateth first receive the Communion in both kinds himself and next deliver it to other Byshops Presbyters and Deacons if any be there present that they may help him that celebrateth and after to the People in due order all humbly kneeling Then shall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kindes himself next deliver it to other ministers if any be present that they may help the chief Minister and after to the people in their M hands N kneeling Then shall the Priest first receive the Communion in both kindes himself and next deliver it to other Ministers if any be present there that they may be ready to help the chief minister and after to the people  And when he receiveth himself or delivereth the bread to others he shall say this Benediction And when he delivereth the Bread he shall say And when he delivereth the Sacrament of the Body of Christ he shall say to every one these words    1. B. of Edw. 6. 2. B of Edw. 6 The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life O The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and soul into everlasting life and fake and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee and feed on him in thine heart by faith with thanksgiving Here the party receiving shall say P Amen      1. B. of Edw. 6.  And the Presbyter or Minister that receiveth the Cup himself or delivereth it to others shall say this Benediction And the Minister that delivereth the Cup shall say And the Minister delivering the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ and giving every one to drink once and no more shall say    1. B. of Edw. 6. 2. B. of Edw. 6. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life drink this in remembrance that Christs blood was shed for thee and be thankful The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soul unto evey lasting life Drink this in remembrance that Christ blood was shed for thee and be thankfull Here the Party receiving shall say Amen    1 B. of Edward 6. If there be a Deacon or other Priest then shall he follow with the Chalice and as the Priest ministreth the Sacrament of the body so shall he for more expedtion minister the Sacrament of the blood in form before written In the Communion time the Clerk shall sing O Lamb of God that takest away the sins c. have mercy upon us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins c. Grant us thy peace Beginning so soon as the Priest doth receive the holy Communion and when the Communion is ended then shall he sing the Post-Communion Sentences of holy Scripture to be said or sung every day one after the holy Communion called the Post Communion Matth. 16. 24. Mar. 13. 13. Luke 1. 68. 12. 37. 40. 47. John 4. 23. 5. 14. 8. 31. 12. 36. 14. 21 23. 15. 7 8 12. Rom. 8. 31 32 33. 13. 12. 1 Cor. 1. 30. 3. 16. 6. 20. Then the Priest shall give thanks to God in the name of all them that have communicated turning him first to the people and saying The Lord be with you The Answer And with thy Spirit The Priest Let us pray Almighty and everlasting God we most heartily c. The Common Prayer Then shall the Minister say the Lords prayer the people repeating after him every petition After shall be said as followeth O Lord and heavenly father we thy humble servants entirely desire thy fatherly goodnesse mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy son Jesus Christ and through faith in his blood we and all thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins all other benefits of his passion Q And here we offer and present unto thee O Lord our selves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and lively sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that all we which be partakes of this holy Communion may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction And although we be unworthy through our manifold sins to offer unto thee any sacrifice yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service 1 B. of Edw. 6. And command these our prayers and supplications by the ministry of thy holy Angels to be brought up into thy holy Tabernacle before the sight of thy divine Majesty not weighing our merits but pardoning our offences through Jesus Christ our Lord by whom and with whom in the unity of the holy Ghost all honour and glory be unto thee O father almighty world without end Amen Or this Scot. Lit. When all have Communicated he that celebrates shall go to the Lords Table and cover with a fair linen cloth or corporal that which remaineth of the consecrated elements and then say this Collect of thanksgiving as followeth ALmighty and everliving God we most heartily thank thee for that thou doest vouchsafe to feed us which have duâ—ly received these holy mysteries with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood
Pennance and had compleated it as it was prefix'd As for the rites belonging to this Reconciliation they were in both Churches conformably two one proper to the Absolved the other to the Absolving Person the Absolved being produced in the face of the Congregation made there publick Confession of his sinnes then called Exhomologesis whereupon he was absolved with imposition of hands in which the Bishop as he ought did preside And this is that very Imposition of hands intended by the Apostle 1 to Timothy 5. 22. where he commands him to lay hands suddenly upon no man as the learned Annotator of late and Tertullian of old hath observed to my apprehension most truly Thus stood the discipline of the Antient Church for the first six hundred years she keeping therein a decent medium between two extreames To cut off lapsed Persons from all hope of one single Pardon would have abetted the rigid humour of Novatus Again on the other side Medicina vilis minus utilis esset aegrotis A medicine too cheap and easie to be come by would make it the less effective in operation To avoid therefore that contempt which an over frequent and too familiar Lenity would create this indulgence Once and but once she granted there being sicut unum Baptisma ita una Penitentia quae publice agitur As but one Baptisme so but one publick Pennance in the Church That this most laudable most edifying way of Christian Reformation by Ecclesiastical Censures should in a Church assuming the Stile of Reformed be so almost totally abandoned That a Discipline so Apostolical so Primitive should in a Church justly pretending to be the very Parallelogram and true Representation of those excellent Copies be so very near invisible That the restauration thereof should hitherto become the Vote of so many and Endeavour of so few is to me a very great wonder Perhaps some will say that this strict discipline seemed rather to magnifie the Power of the Keyes and Authority of the Clergy then the mercies of God Mercies so inexhaustible as all our sinnes are in comparison of them but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a drop to the Ocean To which it may be returned in excuse of those rigorous proceedings First that Christianity was but then in the bud the Profession thereof thinly despersed in the crowd of Pagans where the least moral Scandal would have been a great blemish to the whole party and consequently impeded the gaining of Proselites For it is a rule infallible that No Sect whatsoever can thrive and prosper whose Professors do not exhibite a fair front of Moral Virtues in their outward Actions Upon this account it was expedient that the Church under the penalty of the deepest of her Censures should require from all her subordinates such a practical and exemplary purity as might render her most resplendent even in the opinion of her greatest enemies Again Emperours and Supream Magistrates had not then embraced Christianity and consequently no Lawes established to punish such crimes as were of meer Ecclesiastical relation and in default of such Lawes the Church had all the reason in the world to exercise that spiritual Jurisdiction Christ had empowered her with to those intents for which it was given And though since Christian Magistrates have taken the Church to nurse Political Lawes take cognizance of and punish all notorious offenders and so her Censure now less necessary yet considering that coâ—rcive power operates most upon the outward act and really reforms the inward habit I question not but this spiritual discipline might be used still in some degrees to the greater advancement of Piety and an holy life Sure I am with learned Casaubon Huic revocandae in usum operam impendisse res futura sit Deo gratior quam de fidei dogmatis subtiliter disputare extra scripturas omnes dissentientes ferro flamma persequi in quae hodie summus pietatis apex ponitur The endeavour of recalling this Discipline into practice would be time better spent and to God much more acceptable then without Scripture to dispute nicely about points of Faith and to prosecute with fire and sword all contrary judgement which is now adays made the great point of Christian Piety The Curate It is rightly observed by Mr. Sparrow that the word Curate in our Liturgy is not meant according to the vulgar use to signifie a stipendiary hireling or such an one as was formerly called Temporalis Vicarius a Vicar at will But the Person Rector or Incumbent of the Church and thence Beneficium curatum is described by Lindwood to be a Benefice quod parochiam habet in qua est cura animarum non pervicarios sed per Rectores aut ministros ipsius Beneficii vel ipsorum temporales Vicarios exercenda which hath a Parish wherein is the cure of souls to be exercised not by Vicars but by the Rectors or Ministers of the Benefice or by their Stipendiaries The onely Two considerable Questions there are conerning the Homilies First whither they be part of our Churches Liturgy Secondly whither they be so far her Doctrine as to declare her sense in points dogmatical As for the first the Rubrique in the Communion Office speaks affirmative enough After the Creed shall follow one of the Homily's and the Preface to the first Book of Homilies commandeth all Parsons Vicars Curates c. every Sunday and Holyday in the year c. after the Gospel and Creed in such order and place as is appointed in the Book of Common Prayer to read one of the said Homilies evidently implying they were no more to be omitted then any other part of the Service but where the Rubrique gives a toleration As for the second The aforesaid Preface tells us they were set forth for the expelling of erroneous and poysonous Doctrines More fully the Orders of King James The Homilies are set forth by Authority in the Church of England not onely for a help of non-preaching but withall as it were a patern for preaching Ministers Imprinted at London c. the 7. day of March 1649. Observing the year and month of this Impression we are taught how to correct Calvin's Letter to the Protector which some Editions date October 20. 1646. other October 22. 1648 Both false even to Miraâ—â—e This Letter was occasionally wrote upon some offence taken at several parcels of this Liturgy So that by consequence infallible This must antidate That This is demonstrable first the very words of that Letter it self Audio recitari istic in caenae celebratione Orationem pro defunctis I am informed that in the Communion Office there speaking of England a Prayer for the dead is rehearsed This clearly relateth to the later end of the Prayer for the whole state of the Catholick Church in this Liturgy Secondly it is evident by another Epistle of Calvin to Bucer then here in England referring to the former Letter Dominum Protectorem