Where the rubric is doubtful, the bishop of the diocese is to be Page 121 Tyndall and Coverdale's translation of the Psalms followed in our liturgy, being more suited for devotional purposes Keeping holydays is not contrary to St. Paul, Gal. iv. 2 Several Popish holidays retained in our calendar for a secular The primitive Christians observed holydays as well as festivals Our reasons for observing the respective holydays Directions for divine service when a holyday and a Sunday come The sacred events commemorated by our Church are adapted They are also a judicious and safe guide to her ministers Occasion of the rule for celebrating Easter Canons at the Council of Nice on the subject Why the Christian year does not correspond with the civil Why some festivals have no vigils Our holydays are not all of the same character,—some are fes- tivals, others fasts Why there is no express command in the New Testament to fast 54 Our Church differs materially from that of Rome in respect of The advantages which would result from attending to the regu- Of the Rogation days, Dominical letter, and Golden number Reason of the place of public worship being called church God's presence specially vouchsafed to places dedicated to his The angels are witnesses of our devotion; the Lord himself is Scripture precedent for set times of public worship Ancient hours of prayer in the British churches To what the neglect of the daily service is attributable, namely, A short private prayer useful before and after divine service, The General Confession to be used of the whole congregation, all A pause useful between the end of the exhortation and the begin- Has an appropriate attribute of God prefixed to the subsequent petitions of it: this also is observable in all the prayers of Is in general terms, yet most comprehensive "Lost sheep," a very significant phrase The other terms in it are likewise very suitable The people should be in church before divine service begins, for By encouraging backwardness in religious offices They themselves lose opportunity of private prayer, and thus in- By injuring their brethren they injure themselves The Romish view of confession considerably differs from that of The absolution in our service not a prayer, but a message to us How a deacon is to act when he comes to it in reading the service 88 Erroneous opinions respecting absolution held by Romanists on Reason of our being, in the end of the absolution, directed to Different significations of the word Amen - Scriptural authority for the people joining in Divine worship 888 This is not contrary to the apostle's directions, 1 Cor. xiv. liturgy in connexion with any religious office Propriety in prefixing the confession and absolution to it Page Directions for the minister and the people in using them The minister should repeat those parts of the liturgy which are The Invitatory Psalm which follows the Responses.-Preferred on account of the warnings in it It contains a threefold exhortation The Psalms.-The dots occurring about the middle of the verses 103 Reason of their being appointed to be read by our Church so fre- quently In the reading of them it is to be observed in whose person the The manner in which we read them defended Tabular view of those best suited for devotional purposes The division of them now used in the Church more commodious The Lessons.-A respite given to the mind by their following the God's revelation should be read by those to whom he has given The Romish errors in the reading of the Scriptures rectified by Reason of our reading first the Old Testament, then the New, and always something out of both Important differences between our Church and that of Rome, as to their respective rules of faith And also with regard to the right of private interpretation The Te Deum received into the Church offices in the sixth century 115 Its structure alone human, whilst the materials are divine It contains an act of praise, a confession of faith, a supplication Considerations of the following terms in it: "Christ God's true and only son-Did not abhor the virgin's womb-Opened Invoking the "souls of the righteous," a figure of speech The words "prophet of the Highest" refer not to Christ, but to The Apostles' Creed, so called from containing a summary of All the ancient creeds extant could not have harmonized as they The creed holds an appropriate place in the liturgy In our use of it, we must be thankful to God, give a positive and particular assent to every article, and devoutly apply every |