Page 72. At the fifth line: Shall not the mention of David be here omitted? For though the phrase of going astray be in Psalm cxix, 176, yet there's no mention at all of any Accursing.

At the eleventh line: In what being always at hand is not the same with hanging over our heads, it is less than it, and should not be added unto it.

Page 73. Add the Verses to all these citations; and so, on the page before.

Page 74. In that Rubrick, thus:

The Priest, being come from the pulpit, and he with the Clerks kneeling where they said the Supplication, shall say this Psalm.

Page 76. The seventh line:

Who put their trust in Thee.

The end of the first prayer,

through JESUS CHRIST Our LORD. Amen.

From thence to the end, there is Which six times, for Who.

Page 77. A Rubrick to be set at the bottom :

These Prayers being finished, they are to go on to the Communion Service.

Now, in all these Notes of mine, where &c. is set, the meaning is to go on verbatim, as it is now in the Book of Common Prayer, until a new Note come. But let not the Printer use it.*

There was a mistake in setting the number of the pages to the book which I went by in these Notes; for in the Com

*See Rule 3 on the next page.

munion Service, the 15th page is twice set. Other men's books therefore must be so noted also, if they would use these Notes; and then there will be no great error.

The Psalter follows, the Title Page whereof says, it is after the Translation of the Great Bible. Whereas we have now, and had then, another Translation after that, and a greater Bible.

After the Psalter, there are divers pages, inscribed
Godly Prayers to be used &c.

To be used in private, perhaps they meant. But by what Authority? Though many of them are not amiss; and the rest may soon be amended. But why are they joined here, more than many hundreds of other Prayers?

If it were the Printer's boldness alone, he should not dare to have done such a thing, for fear of his Privilege.

It is needful that the Printer be so charged, as not to dare,

1. To add anything but what is directed in his original Copy.

2. Not to leave out anything: not Amen at the end of every Prayer not Glory be to the FATHER, at the end of every Psalm.

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3. Not, for sparing of his labour or paper, to cut off the LORD's Prayer, or the Glory be to, or anything

else with his &c.

4. Not to set For Thine is the kingdom, but where it is

appointed.

5. To set the number of his pages through the whole

book.

6. To compose so as that no Prayer have part of it set, to turn over a leaf to it. And that every Order do begin upon a new page.

7.

It would also be for the reverence of this holy Book, that he and his fellows jostle not so, in naming themselves, in the Titlepage of it.

There wants an Order,

That no man shall publish anything in the Church but the Minister alone. And that he make no Publication or Proclamation there of anything but what is prescribed by the Rules of this Book, or enjoined by his Ordinary.

What Advices, for other exceptions and alterations, shall be brought, and what shall be therein ordered, let the Church of England consider, unto whom all herein is humbly submitted.

THE MANNER OF ORDERING, MAKING, AND CONSECRATING BISHOPS, PRIESTS, AND DEACONS.

This shall be written in a Paper by itself, as followeth :

The reason of varying thus in the Title* is because the word Ordination or Ordering is more proper than the word Consecrating alone, which is attributed to dead or inanimate things. It relishes also too much of the pomp of the Church of Rome, to use it alone for Bishops, and yet hath since been made use of by the Aërian Faction, to pretend that Episcopacy is not an Order, but only a Degree above Presbytery, and no otherwise than as Archiepiscopacy is above Episcopacy.

In the first Institution this had the precedence, and so it is mentioned twice in the Preface.

At the end of the Preface some Passages are left out; but they are severally added in the Rubricks of the several Orders. †

*In 1549, The Form and Manner of Making and Consecrating of Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

In 1552, and till the last Revise, The Form and Manner of Making and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

The Pen has been drawn across these Paragraphs, and the matter of them is given in a more expanded form on page 106.

THE PREFACE.

It is evident to all men diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in the Church of Christ, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; which offices were evermore had in such reverent estimation, that no man might ever presume to execute any of them by his own private authority, but that he was first to be called, tried, examined, and known to have such qualities as were requisite for the same. And also by Public Prayer, with imposition of hands, to be approved, and admitted thereunto.

And therefore, to the intent that these Orders should be continued, and reverently used and esteemed in this Church of England, it is required that no man (not being then at the present Bishop, Priest, or Deacon) do execute any of them, until he be called, tried, examined, and admitted by the Church, according to this Form here prescribed.

It is also required that every man who is to be consecrated unto the Order of a Bishop, be fully thirty years of age. And every man who is to be admitted to be a Priest, be full four and twenty years old. And none shall be admitted to be a Deacon, except he be twenty and one years of age at the least.*

* In 1655, Bp. Bull, at the age of Twenty-one, was on one and the same day ordained Deacon and Priest, in consideration of the "difficulty and distress' the times. See Nelson's Life in Burton's Ed. of Bull's Works, p. 23.

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