TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID,

POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES:

AND THE FORM AND MANNER OF MAKING, ORDAINING, AND CONSECRATING
OF BISHOPS, PRIESTS, AND DEACONS.

THE TEXT TAKEN FROM THE MANUSCRIPT BOOK ORIGINALLY
ANNEXED TO STAT. 17 & 18 CAR. II. c. 6. (IR.): WITH
AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.

BY ARCHIBALD JOHN STEPHENS,

BARRISTER AT LAW.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

FOR THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

The

Collects, Epistles, and Gospels

to be used throughout the years.

Note, that the Collect appointed for every Sunday, or for any holiday that hath a vigil or Eve, shall be said a the Eve nig service next before. The first Sunday in Advent.

The Collect.

Almighty God, give vs grace that we may cast away, the works of darkness, and put vpon ys the armour of light now in the time of this mortal life (in which thy son Jesus Christ came to visit vs in great humility;) that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Ma

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jesty, to Judg both the quick and dead, well may
rise to the life imortal, through him who liveth
and reigneth with the and the holy Ghost, now
and ever.
Amen.

Advent Sunday. i.

This Collect is to be repeated every day

1. 5.

1. 1. The 77th page of the MS. Book commences with the word "The".

11. 1, 2.

1. 3. In "used", a "v" altered into the "u" in darker ink.

1. 9. "Almighty" written in an engrossing character.

"The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels" written in an engrossing character.

After "holiday", a blot in darker ink, as if to obliterate a point.

1. 11.

In "time", the "i" written on a "y".

with the other Collects in Advent, vntill

Chrismas-Eve.

The Epistle.

Rom. 13. 8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for hee that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. ffor this, thou shalt not comi adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet

And if there be any other comand ment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour, there fore love is the love fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our saluation nearer then when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is a hand; le vs therefore cast of the works of darkness, and le vs pu on the armour of light. Let vs walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkeñess, not in

1. 2. In "Eve", the "v" written on a letter which it renders undistinguishable. "Owe" written in an engrossing character.

1. 4.

In "false", the " "
S written on a "c".

The 78th page of the MS. Book commences with the word "And".
In each "time", the "i" written on a "y".

1. 8.

“of”, sic orig.

"Then", sic orig.

U. Pr.

Q. Pr.

1. 2.

Christmas Eve.

1. 2. Christmas Eve.