O Lord, with whom do live the spirits of them that be dead, and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity. Grant unto this Thy servant, that the sins which he committed in this world be not imputed unto him, but that he, escaping the gates of hell, and pains of eternal darkness, may ever dwell in the region of light, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the place where is no weeping, sorrow, nor heaviness, and when that dreadful day of the general resurrection shall come, make him to rise also with the just and righteous, and receive this body again to glory, then made pure and incorruptible; set him on the right hand of Thy Son Jesus Christ, among Thy holy and elect, that then he may hear with them these most sweet and comfortable words, Come to Me, ye blessed of My Father, possess the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grant this, we beseech Thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen.] Minister. Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and in whom the souls of them that be elected, after they be delivered from the burden of the flesh, be in joy and felicity: we gibe Thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased Thee to deliver this N. our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world, beseeching Thee that it may 290 X. please Thee of Thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish CHAP. the number of Thine elect, and to hasten Thy kingdom, that we with this our brother, and all other departed in the true faith of Thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss both in body and soul, in Thy eternal and everlasting glory. Amen. The Collect. the Com munion office in the O merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, This colwho is the resurrection and the life, in whom whosoever be lect is in liebeth, shall live, though he die, and whosoever liveth and beliebeth in Him, shall not die eternally; who also taught us, by His holy Apostle Paul, not to be sorry as men without hope, for them that sleep in Him: we meekly beseech Thee, Father, to raise us from the death of sin, unto the life of righteousness, that when we shall depart this life, we may rest in Him, as our hope is this our brother doth: and that at the general resurrection in the last day, We may be found acceptable in Thy sight, and receive that blessing which Thy wellbeloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear Thee, saying, Come ye blessed children of Fly Father, My receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world: grant this, we beseech Thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. 1 B. of Edw. VI. Both we and this our brother departed, receiving again our bodies, and rising again in Thy most gracious favour, may with all Thine elect saints obtain eternal joy. Grant this, O Lord God, by the means of our Advocate Jesus Christ: which with Thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth one God for ever. 1 B. of Edw. VI. Amen. (BB) The celebration of the holy Communion when there is a burial of the dead. Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, &c. Ps. xlii. As it was in the beginning, &c. L'ESTRANGE. 1 B. of Edw. VI. O merciful God, &c., as in the last collect of the Common Prayer. The Epistle. I would not brethren that you should be ignorant, &c. 1 Thess. iv. The Gospel. Jesus said unto His disciples and to the Jews, &c. John vi. 291 ANNOTATIONS UPON A CHAPTER X. X. (A) The matrimonial office very necessary. Marriage ought to be blessed CHAP. by a minister. Our Saviour and the primitive fathers did it. Set forms anciently used. (B) Times prohibited for marriage, upon what law founded. The Directory as guilty of popery therein as our Church. (C) Marriage anciently celebrated ad ostium Ecclesiæ. (D) Mutual consent of both parties necessary. Espousals, what. (E) The giving of the woman ancient. (F) The excellency of the English mode in receiving the wife from the priest. (G) The right hand a symbol of fidelity. (H) A ring, why given by the man. The ancient use of rings. (I) Why the ring is laid upon the book. (K) Why the ring is put upon the fourth finger; the usual reason rejected. (L) "With my body I thee worship," what meant by it. (M) The blessing ought to be by imposition of hands. (N) Why the married couple to communicate. (0) The visitation of the sick a necessary office. (P) A sound faith how necessary. (Q) Charity very necessary to a dying man. (R) So also almsgiving. (S) Absolution how commendable and comfortable. The several kinds of absolution. (T) Extreme unction, why laid aside. (V) Communion of the sick vindicated. Calvin for it. (W) Reservation of the consecrated elements anciently very laudable. (X) The various customs of bearing the corpse to church. Copiata, what. Why hymns sung all along as the corpse was borne. (Y) The resurrection of our bodies ought to be the chief of our meditations upon funeral occasions. (Z) "In sure and certain hope," &c., what meant by it. (AA) Prayer for the dead in the Romish Church implieth not purgatory. The mind of the Breviary opened. Trentals, what. (BB) Communion at burials ancient; why now laid aside. The original of oblations, doles at funerals, and mortuaries. The solemnization of matrimony.] In all solemn leagues, and federal pacts, even ethnic theology hath always interested and engaged religion: upon this account, amongst them they were no less solemnly firmed by oaths, than by seals affixed; a Vid Smyrn. et Magnes. Fæd. apud Seld. Marm. Arundel. [Seld. Opp., tom. ii. p. 1462. Ορκιζέτωσαν δὲ τὸν ὅρκον τὸν ἄνω γεγραμμένον, οἱ μὲν ἐκ Μαγνησίας ἀποδειχθέντες Σμυρναίους· οἱ δὲ ἐξ Σμύρ νης, τοὺς ἐμ Μαγνησίᾳ . . . ' Αναγραψά CHAP. and were made between one king, and one commonwealth temples of their gods. What contract, what confederacy can b Hæres. 67. |