Prayer, or Evening Prayer, next before the Blessing be given.

Page 20. In the first of these Collects,

through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.

In the two last of these Collects,

Who knowest our necessities: and

Who hast promised to hear &c.

Page 21. Paragraphs.

Amen.

Here is a great Rubrick consisting of three

For the latter against Private

Yet if they will

The foremost whereof would be divided. half of it (which was put in at first as a bar Masses), is now become needless and useless. have it stand, let it be expressly set down, what is a good Number. Let it also be well considered, whether it be not very expedient now, to add a Caution against an overgreat number; in some Churches there coming about Easter many hundreds upon one day.

By this Second Paragraph it is presumed that in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches there is a Communion every Sunday. But that Canon not having been observed for very many years, it is fit that this be rectified, and that what Order shall herein be held, be now expressed.

Ibidem. in the Bread and Wine, it shall suffice that the Bread, where it is not of fine Wafer, pure, and without any figure or print, be such as is usual to be eaten &c.

This would be put thus, because in some places, (at Westminster, if I remember aright, and elsewhere) plain Wafers have ever been used.

Ibidem. What remaineth of the Bread of any Loaf or Wafer that was broken for the use of the Communion, or of the Wine that was poured out, or had the Benediction, the Curate

shall, after the Service is ended, take some of the Communicants But all the rest in both

to him, there to eat and drink the same. kinds, the Curate shall have to his own use.

As this was set down before, much outcry was made against it.

Page 22. Make another Paragraph of it, at the second line, and put it thus:

In Easter Week yearly, every Parishioner, or one for him, shall reckon with the Minister or his Deputy, and shall pay to him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due; as then and at that time to be paid for the year past, unless they have paid for the same before.

Ibidem. At the bottom of this first Rubrick for Baptism, set it thus:

Nevertheless, Children may at all times be baptized at home, if necessity so require; and at the Church, on any other days.

In the next Rubrick, thus:

The Godfathers and Godmothers (that is to say, for a Male Child, two Godfathers and one Godmother, and no more; and for a Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers, and other people, with the Child or Children must be ready at the Font, immediately after the Second Lesson &c.

Page 23. In the first Rubrick, thus:

The Priest shall first ask, whether the Child (or, if there be more, whether any of them) hath been baptized already.

Ibidem. After the Preface, when the Priest sayeth, Let us pray, all the Congregation shall kneel down.

Almighty and everlasting GOD, Who of Thy great &c.

Page 24. The first Rubrick thus:

Then shall they all stand up, and the Priest shall say, In the Exhortation after the Gospel, thus:

that He commanded the Children to be brought unto Him, expressly declaring, that though but Children, yet the Kingdom of God belonged unto them; that He blamed His own Disciples that would then have kept them from Him; that He exhorteth all men, &c.

Page 25. lineâ primâ, thus:

For He embraced them in His arms, as admitting them into His Church, whereof Himself was the Head, (for which end He did afterwards institute this Sacrament of Baptism), He laid His hands upon them, and blessed them.

Page 26. In the first line, thus:

their Sureties, until they come of age to take it upon themselves, that they will forsake the Devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy Word, and obediently keep His Commandments. Answer me therefore,

Doest thou forsake the Devil &c.

The Sureties, in the Child's name, to answer,

I forsake them all.

Page 27. At the 16th line, thus :

all nations, and baptize them in the Name of

the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST, Regard, we beseech Thee, the supplications of Thy Church, and grant that all Thy servants (or, if but one, this Thy servant) which shall be baptized &c.

Ibidem. In the first Rubrick, thus :

Then shall the Priest take every Child in his hands; and if they certify him that the Child is strong enough, asking the Name, and audibly naming it, he shall dip it in the water, discreetly and warily, and shall say,

N. I baptize thee in the Name &c.

In the next Rubrick, thus:

But if the Child be weak, it shall be sufficient to pour water on the forehead, to run upon the face of it, and to say &c.

In the next Rubrick, thus:

Then the Priest shall make a Cross on the Child's forehead, after that he hath said,

Having now baptized this Child into CHRIST, and thereby received it into CHRIST'S Church, and the Congregation of His flock, we do sign it with the sign of the Cross, (here delivering back the Child) in token that hereafter he (or she) shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of CHRIST crucified against sin, the world, and the Devil, and to continue CHRIST's spiritual soldier and faithful servant unto his (or her) life's end.

As this went before, (manfully to fight under His banner), it offended many, because it appertains not naturally to the female sex. The last Archbishop varied from it, baptizing the

Princess Royal.*

Add also this Rubrick :

If there be more Children than one, both the Baptism itself, and this Sentence, shall be repeated upon every one.

"The Lady Mary, Princess," born November 4th, 1631, while Laud was Bishop of London.

Ibid. The first Rubrick here, to be thus:

After all the Children are baptized and delivered to their friends, the Priest shall say,

Seeing now, Dearly Beloved, that these Children are regenerate, and graffed into the body of CHRIST's Church, let us give thanks &c.

And here, to Our FATHER, Who art in Heaven,' let be added, 'for Thine is the kingdom' &c., to be said with the Priest by all present.

In that Prayer, thus:

and to incorporate him (her, or them) into Thy Holy Church. And humbly we beseech Thee &c.

with the Residue of Thy Holy Church, he may be inheritor of Thy everlasting kingdom, through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.

That last Rubrick, to be thus:

Last of all, the Priest, directing his speech particularly unto the Godfathers and Godmothers, shall say,

For as much as these Children severally have covenanted, and by you, their Sureties, promised to forsake the Devil &c.

Page 29. In the seventh line,

know,

all other things which a Christian ought to leaving out the word, man.

At the end of the Exhortation, this Rubrick to be set : If Baptism at any time be administered not in the Church, or there, not in the time of the Divine Service, then let the close of all here be with the Blessing, The Grace of our LORD Jesus &c.; the Priest always adding thus, In the Name of CHRIST and of His Church, I charge you, the Sureties, to see to it carefully that these Children be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed as soon as they can say &c.