Note that the beginning of the twenty-sixth chapter of Eccles. unto (1 and 2 B. of Edw. VI. and Lit. of Queen Eliz. "But when one is," &c.) "But a grief of," &c. must be read with the twenty-fifth chapter.

Added by King James. ** Note that the forty-sixth chapter of Eccles. is to be read unto these words, " And after his death," &c.

That is to say: all Sundays in the year. The days of the Feasts of the Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of the Epiphany. [Scotch Lit. "Of the Conversion of St. Paul."] Of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin. Of St. Matthias the Apostle. Of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. Of St. Mark the Evangelist. Of St. Philip and Jacob the Apostles. Of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[Scotch Lit. "Of St. Barnabas."]

Of St. Peter the Apostle. Of St. Bartholomew Apostle.

Of the Nativity of St. John
Baptist.

Of St. James the Apostle.
Of St. Matthew the Apo-
stle.

Of St. Michael the Arch- Of St. Luke the Evangelist.

angel.

Of All Saints.

Of St. Simon and Jude Of St. Thomas the Apostle.

Apostles.

Of St. Andrew the Apostle.
Of the Nativity of our Lord.
Of St. John the Evangelist.
Monday and Tuesday in
Easter-week.

Of St. Stephen the Martyr.
Of the Holy Innocents.
Monday and Tuesday in
Whitsun-week.

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CHAPTER II.

CHAP. (A) The division of the Psalms very discreet. The ancient manner of singing them various in antiquity. The fifteenth canon of the council of Laodicea expounded. (B) Books and chapters of the canonical Scripture least edifying omitted. (C) The rubric for proper lessons cleared. (D) A necessary caveat to ministers. (E) Differences between the former calendars and ours. Why several saints are added now more than formerly. (F) Fasts instrumental to piety. The Jews fasted on high festivals till noon. Whence our fasts before some holy days. Why not before all. (G) Holy days, why fit to be established by parliament. Why instituted. The Church's power to ordain them. The judgment of foreign Churches and divines. Zanchy cleared: a demur upon the best Reformed Churches. Our holy days not derived from the pagans, yet warrantable if they were.

The Psalter shall be read through once every month.] In A the preface we are told that the Psalter was anciently divided into seven portions called nocturns, so as it was read over every week, as may be collected out of Jerome. But this custom was only peculiar to the Latin Church, as for the Syriac and Greek Churches, which as Mr. Brerewood assures us, conformed much in their rites, they divided it so as it was not read over but every twenty days. Our Church being loath that her service should seem over prolix allotteth it one month or thirty days, the very term the Turks assign for their Alcoran, a wonder she hath not for that very reason been suspected as inclining to Mahometism.

Though the Psalter be here appointed to be read, yet must it be interpreted according to the ancient practice, that is, by way of response, the priest one verse and the people another, as Moses and Miriam sang their triumphant hymn. Exod. xv. 1, 21. The people always bear a part in these psalms, else the venite were to little purpose, though the mode did sometimes vary τῇ μὲν συνηχοῦντες, “ one while Bedwel. Arabian Trudgeman, [or b Philo. Jud. περὶ Βιοῦ θεωρητικού. Dragoman. 1605.]

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