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The ORDER how the PSALTER is appointed to be READ.

And whereas January, March, May, July, Auguft, October, and December, have one and thirty days apiece; It is ordered that the fame Pfalms fhall be read the laft day of the faid Months, which were read the day before: fo that the Pfalter may begin again the first day of the Month next enfuing. And whereas the 119th Pfalm is divided into 22 portions, and is over-long to be read at one time; It is fo ordered, that at one time fhall not be read above four or five of the faid portions.And at the end of every Pfalm, and of every such part of the 119th Pfalm, fhall be repeated this hymn,

"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghoft:

"As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.” [NOTE, That the Pfalter followeth the Division of the Hebrews, and the Translation of the great English Bible, fet forth and ufed in the time of King Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI.]

The Order bow the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be Read.‡ THE Old Teftament is appointed for the Firft Leffons at Morning and Evening Prayer; fo as the most part thereof will be read over every year once, as in the Calendar is appointed.

The New Teftament is appointed for the 2d Leffons at Morning and Evening Prayer, and fhall be read over orderly every year thrice, besides the Epiftles and Gofpels; except the Apocalypfe, out of which there are only certain proper Leffons appointed upon divers Feafts.

And to know what Leffons fhall be read every day, look for the day of the Month in the Calendar following, and there ye fhall find the Chapters that fhall be read for the Leffons both at Morning and Evening Prayer; except only the Moveable Feafts, which are not in the Calendar, and the Immoveable, where there is a blank left in the Column of Leffons, the Proper Leffons for all which days are to be found in the Table of Proper Leffons.

And Nore, That whenfoever Proper Pfalms or Leffons are appointed; then the Pfalms and Leftons of ordinary courfe appointed in the Pfalter and Calendar (if they be different) fhall be omitted for that time."

NOTE alfo, That the Collect, Epiftle, and Gofpel appointed for the Sunday, fhall ferve all the week after, where it is not in this Book otherwife ordered.]

thefe means: To every moneth as concernyng this purpose, shall bee appointed juft xxx daies.➡ And because Januarie and Marche hath one daie above the faid nombre, and February whiche is placed between them bothe, hath onely xxviii daies, February fhal borowe of either of the monthes of January and Marche one dale; and to the Pfalter whiche thal be red in February must be begon the laft daie of January, and ended the ft daic of Marche.-And whereas Maie, July, Auguft, Octo ber, and December, have xxxi daies apiece, it is ordered that the fame Pfalms thal be red the laft dair of the faid monthes which were red the daie before: fo that the Pfalter maie bee begon again the first daie of the next monthes enfuying.-Now to knowe what pfaims fhal be red every daie,. Joke in the Kalendar the nombre that is apointed for the Pfalmes, and then find the fame nombre in this table, and upon that nombre fhal you se what Psalmes shal be said at Matynsand Evenfong. "And whereas the cxix Pfalm," &c.

N. B. This Rubrick was refcinded in 1662, and the present order established.

The directions alfo for Reading the Holy Scriptures, have in Edward's and James the Firft's books thefe variations from the above:-" The old Teftament is appointed for the first Lessons of Matins and Evenfong, and fhal bee redde through every yere once, except certaine Bookes and Chapiters, which bee leaft edifying, and might beit be fpared, and therefore are left unred."

In the Review of the Liturgy 1558, amongst other alterations, proper first Leffons were appointed for Sundays; but notwithstanding this arrangement, the directions cited above were continued in all the editions of the Prayer-Book till Charles's Review.

This is alfo to bee noted concernyng the leape yeres, that the xxvth daie of February, whiche in leap-yeres is compted for twoo daies, hall in thofe twoo daies alter neyther Pfalme nor Leffon but the fame Pfalmes and Leffons whiche be faied the first daie, fhall ferve alfo for the fecond dale. Alfo, wherefoever the beginning of any Leffon, Epiftle, or Gofpell is not expreffed, there ye muft begin at the beginnyng of the Chapiter.-And wherefoever is not expreffed how farre shall be reads then thall you read to the end of the Chapiter."

¶ Proper LESSONS to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer, on the SUNDAYS throughout the Year.

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* Note that Exodus vi. is to be read only to verse 14.

*The Calendar, fo called from the Latin word Calende, fignifying in Roman chronology, the frit day of every month. It is of Greek derivation, from zaλɛw, I call or proclaim; because, before the publication of the Roman Fasti, (which answered to our aimanack) it was cuftomary for the Pontifex to watch the first appearance of the new moon, and notify it to the Rex Suri cuts, who offered a facrifice on the occafion; and the Pontifex fummoning the people to the capitol, proclaimed the number of calends, and other particulars refpecting the month on which they had entered.

+ Calende. In the common and fmaller editions of the prayer-book this column is omitted, but without any authority. Indeed there is good reafon for its infertion in the Calendar, as it is a mode of computation repeatedly referred to by the writers of ancient ecclefiaftic. hiftory. This fingular method of reckoning is adopted from the Romans, who divided their months into three parts, Calends, Nones, and Ides. The calends they reckoned backwards from the firit day of every manth (which was always the calend) in a retrograde order through the latter days of the lat month. For instance, the firft of February being the calend of February, the 31 of the preceding month January, was the pridie calendarum, or cond of the calends, or day before the calends of February; the 30th of January was the third of the calends or before the calends of February, and fo on backwards to the 13th, when the Ides commence. Thefe Ides (to called from the Greek ay to fee, because the full moon was ufually feen on or about the day of the Ides) confifted of et days in every month, which were reckoned invertedly, like the Calends, from the 13th to the sth, the commencement of the Nones. The etymology of this word is found probably in the circumstance of the day occuring on the ninth day after the Ides, according to the Roman compu tation, or before it, according to ours. They were invariably on the fifth of the month, in January, February, April, June, Auguft, September, November, and December; but occurred on the feventh in March, May, July, and October; because in the original confitution of the Roman year by Numa, each of thefe latter months had thirty-one days apiece allotted to them, and all the rett (except February, which had thirty) only twenty-nine days. On the Reformation of the Calendar by J. Cæfar, other months were made to contain thirty-one days, but he did not allot them likewife fix days of Nones-Rajini Kom. Antiq.

Eacion. A Ronrith Saint and Martyr; efteemed by fome of that church to have been a dif ciple of St. Peter, and to have been fent by that Apoftle into France, accompanied by St. Denys where he fuffered martyrdom for the caufe of his religion. Others affert that he was a prefbyter of Antioch, deeply verfed in the Hebrew tongue, and that he collated and rectified the copies of the Bible. That being in the city of the Nicomedians, when the Emperor Galienus Maximianus was there, about the year 187) and publ ckly delivering an apology for Chriftianity, he gave efence to the Governor, and was deftroyed by torture. It is to be obferved here, that this and all other Romih Saints' days, had been omitted in both the calendars of Edw. Vith's books, (excepting St. George's day, Laminas day, St. Laurence, and St. Clement, which were in his fecond book but from reafons of convenience, fuch as rendering fome legal procefies as the returns of writs) more intelligible; reulating wakes and fairs, and caufes of a fimilar kind, the fecond Reformers under Elizabeth thought proper to reftere thefe names to the Calendar, forbidding at the fame time their being kept holy by the Church.

+flary. Bishop of Poitiers in France, an able oppofer of the Arians; who being the powerful party at that time, hanifhed Hilary into Phrygia, where he died A. D. 367. His writings, which are almost copies of fome of the works of Origen and Tertullian, are preferved to us; of thefe the French Benedictines published a noble edition.

1 Prifa. A Roman virgin, an apoftolical convert to Chriflianity; who refufing, during a perfecution, to offer facrifice, and abjure her faith, was cruelly tortured and beheaded in 47. The church of St. Prifca at Rome is faid to contain her relics.

Fabian. The Bishop of Rome from 239 to 253; who was put to death in the perfecution under the Emperor Decius.

Ather. A Roman virgin of noble family, who fuffered martyrdom in the tenth general perforution under Dioclefian, A. D. 306. She was previously expofed in a public flew before her exeCation, but refcued from pollution by a miraculous interpofition Triumphing in death, and unaded by the tortures to which the was expofed, the expired finging an hymn to her Redeemer. She is generally reprefented with a lamb by her fide; occafioned by a vifion faid to have been seen by her parents at her tomb, in which Agnes appeared to them in glittering garments, with a lamb by her fide of brilliant whitenefs. Since the time of this fuppofed appearance, the Roman ladies have, on the anniversary of her martyrdoni, gone in proceffion to St. Agnes' altar, and offered up at the farine two of the purcft white lambs they could procure. Thefe the Pope takes under his protection: and orders them to be placed in the richest pafture near the city, where they remain the time of theep-fhearing. They are then dilbur hened of their wool, which is confecrated, and fpun into a fine white cloth, called a pall. When manufactured it is again confecrated by the Pope, and fent to fome newly-made archbishop, who is incompetent to the duties of his itation, She has purchafed, at a vaft charge, a pail from the theep of St. Agnes.

Pincent. A martyr, and Spanish deacon, born at Huezza in Arragon, and martyred in the the Dioclefian perfecution A. D. 303. His faith was tried by the most horrid tortures; his body being lacerated with hooks, fprinkled with fait, broiled upon burning coals, and thrown amongit Broken tiles. He endured, however, unto the end, and died triumphantly.

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