If there is a Communion at a Marriage, the Priest may begin at the words, Ye that do truly, &c.

The proposals touching the Burial Service are framed to meet every case, if possible. It appears that four alternatives are to be at the discretion of the Minister, or at the demand of the friends of the deceased.

1. The present Service.

2. A shortened Service, to be used on the request, or with the consent of the kindred or friends. All as usual to the end of the Anthems at the grave, while the corpse is made ready, ending with the words,-' to fall from Thee.' Then shall follow,-Lord, have mercy, &c. Our Father, &c.

The grace of our Lord, &c.

3. In cases in which neither of the aforesaid Offices may be used, the Minister may, at the request, &c., after the body has been laid into the earth, use prayers taken from the Book of Common Prayer, and portions of Scripture approved by the Ordinary, so that they be not part of the Order for the Burial of the Dead, nor of the Order of the Administration of the Holy Communion.

4. At the request, or with the consent in writing, &c., to permit the corpse to be committed to the grave without any Service, Hymn, Anthem, or Address of any kind.

For, it is noted, that neither the full Service nor the shortened Service is to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or in the commission of any grievous crime, or, having laid violent hands upon themselves, have not been found to be of unsound mind.

Also, if occasion require, the Service at the Grave after the Burial,-Lord, have mercy upon us, &c., the Lord's Prayer, the Prayer, Almighty God, with whom, &c., and the Collect following,--may, at the discretion of the Minister, be said in the church after the Lesson.1

The Commination, or the latter part of it-Ps. li. and the following Prayers-may be used at other times than the first day of Lent, as the Ordinary shall appoint.

1 Cf. the Puritan Exceptions at the Savoy Conference, above, p. 128.

III.

NAMES OF THE SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS, AND THE BIBLE LECTIONS READ ON THEM, AND ON THE WEEKDAYS CONNECTED WITH THEM, ACCORDING TO THE SARUM BREVIARY.

دو

(and some short portions taken from Gen. xli. to xlvi.).

iiij. Quadragesima. Lætare Dominica in passione Domini. Judica Dominica in ramis palmarum

Feria ii., iii., iiij., hebdomadæ sanctæ

Feria v. in cena Domini

Exod. i. 1-iv. 31.

Jer. i. 1-iv. 18.

xi. 1-13.

xi. 14—xiii. 14.
Lament. i. I—9;

I Cor. xi. 20-32.
Lament. i. 10—19;
Heb. iv. II-V. 4.
Lament. ii. 13—15;
17, 18; 21, 22;
iii. 4-6.

DIES SANCTUS PASCHA.

Feria ii., iii., iiij., v. vi., post Pascha.

Sabbatum in albis.

Dominica in Octavis Pascha.

Feria ii., iii., iiij., post Octavas Pascha. Rev. i. 1—ii. 23.

Feria ii., iii., iiij., hebdomadæ quartæ . Jam. i. 1—ii. 26.

Dominica v. post Pascha.

Feria ii., iii., in rogationibus.

Feria iiij. in Vigilia Ascensionis Domini.

Dies Ascensionis Domini.

Feria vi. in crastino Ascensionis Domini Acts i. 1-14.

Sabbatum post Ascensionem Domini

Dominica infra Octavas Ascensionis.

ii. 1—21.

ii. 22-43.

iii. I-21.

FESTUM SANCTE TRINITATIS.

Festum Corporis Christi (Thursday after
Trinity Sunday).

Dominica infra Octavas Corporis Christi,
which was also

Dominica i. post festum S. Trinitatis,
HISTORIA Deus omnium :

or Historia Regum. 'Hac die incipiatur
Liber Regum, et legatur usque ad primam
Dominicam post v. Kal. Augusti, quando
de temporali agitur'

For the weeks between this Sunday
and the Sunday next after July 28,
thirty-six sets of three lections were
provided

I Sam. i. 1—ii. 25.

ii. 26--xvii. 56.

Eccl'us i. 1-40.

ii. I—iv. 16; xiii. 1-xvi. 6.

Dominica prima post v. Kal. Novemb. (Oct. 28).
HISTORIA Vidi Dominum :

'Hac die incipiatur Historia Ezechielis,

et legatur usque ad Adventum Domini,

quando de temporali agitur' . . . . Ezek. i. 1—ii. 1 :

and 19 sets of lections, including

ii. 1-vii. 24; viii. 1-xii. 3.

This Table corresponds to our Tables of Proper and Daily Lessons. It must be noted that numerous Saints' Days, with their Proper Lections-narratives of the Saint's life or martyrdomcontinually interfered with this Order of Scripture reading; so that commonly (as our Reformers complained in 1549) 'when any book of the Bible was begun, after three or four chapters were read, all the rest were unread.' Besides these Lections, the Epistles and Gospels were read at Mass; and an Exposition of the Gospel often supplied the seventh, eighth, and ninth Lections at Matins, on a Day which had nine Lections. Also a single verse of Scripture (Capitulum) was read in the Offices of Lauds, the Sixth, and Ninth Hours, and Vespers.

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