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r3. Whether the Rubrick
is
not to
be mended,
where the
Churchwardens
are
fiddly
charged to gather the Alms
for
the
Poor
before the
Communion
begin;
for
by
experience
it
is
proved to be done better when
the People
depart.
14.
Whether the Rubrick
is
not
to
be
mended, concerning. the Party
that
is
to
make
his
General Confeifron upon
his
knees,
before
the Communion,
that
it fhould
be
Paid
only by the
Minifter,
and
then at
every
Glade
repeated
to
.
the
Peo-
ple.
15.
Thefe
words
in the Form
of
the Confecration,
This
is
my Body
,
This
is
my
Blood
of
the
New
Tefiament,
not to be printed hereafter in great Letters.
16.
Whether it will
not
be fit
to
infect
a
Rubrick, touching kneeling
at the
Communion, that
is,
to comply
in all
Humility with the Prayer which the Mini-
fter
makes
when
he delivers the Elements.
i7. Whether
Cathedral
and
Collegiate Churches
(hall be
ftri
&ly
bound to Celebtate
the
Holy Communion every Sunday at
the
lealt, and might not
it rather
be
added
once in
a
Month.
r 8.
In the
aft
Rubrick touching the Communion,
it
is
not
fit
that the Printer
make
a
full
Point,
and begin with
a
new Great Letter at thefe words,
And
every
Parifhioner fhall
alfo
receive the Sacrament.
19.
Whether
in
the
firft
Prayer
at
the Baptifm, thefe words, Didit
fanite
the
Flood
of
Jordan,
and
allother Waters,
should be thus
changed, Didit
fanllse
the
Ele-
ment
of
Water.
20.
-
Whether
it,
be
not
fit
to have
Come
difcreet Rubrick made
to
take away
all
fcandal
from figning
the
Sign
of
the Crofs
upon
the Infants after Baptifm ; or if
it
flail
feem
more expedient to be quite
difufed,
whether
this Reafon fhouid be
pub.
lilhed,
Thatin
ancient,Liturgies.no.
Crofs was confined
upon the
Party, but where
Oyl
á11q.
was ufed
and therefore
Oyl
being
now omitted,
fo may allò
that which
.wagcençomitant
with
it,
the
Sign
of
the Crofs.
.
a
r.
In Private
Baptifm,
the Rubrick mentions that. which mull not be done
,
that the Minifter
may
dip
theChild in Water being at the
point of Death.
22..
Whether in'therlaft
Rubrick
of
Confirmation, thefe
words be to be
left
our,
and
be
undoubtedly
faved.
s ;.
Whether the Catechifm
may
not
receive
a
little more Enlargement.
24. Whether
the
Times prohibited for Marriage are quite
to
be taken
a-
way.
zç. Whether none hereafter
Ihall
have Licenfes to marry ,
nor
be asked
their
Banns
of
Matrimony, that
fhall
not bring with them
a
Certificate from their Mini.
fiers
that they are
initruded
in their Catechifm.
26: Whether thefe Words in
Matrimony,
With
my Body
I
thee
wcrfbip, shall
not
be.thus altered,
I
give
thee
power over
my
body.
27.
Whether the;laft Rubrick
of
Marriage Ihould
not
be
mended,that new mar-
ried Perfons
Ihould receive the
Communion the
fame day
of their marriage, may
not
be
(or
upon the. Sunday
following)
when the Communion
is celebra-
ted.
28.
In
the Abfolation
of
the Sick, were it
not
plain to
fay,
(pronounce thee
Ab
folved.
29.
The
Pfalm
of
Thankfgiving
of
Women
after Child-
birth, were
it
not
fit
to
be compofed out
of
proper Verficles
taken from
divers Pfalms.
3o.
May not the Priefbrather
read
the
Communion in
the Desk,
than
go up to
the Pulpit.
;r.
The
Rubrick
In
the
Commination
leave
it
doubtful, whether the Liturgy
may
not
be read in divers places
jn the Church.
;
z.
.In
the
Order
of
the
Burial
of
all Perfons
,
:
'tis
fait,Wecommit
hie Body
to
she
Ground,-
in
fare and
certain
hope
of
Refurrehlion to
Eternal
Life
; Why not
thus,
Knowing
affuredll
that
the Dead fhall
rife
again.
3
;.
In
the Colle& next unto the
Coiled againi
the Peltilence, the
Claufe.
per.
baps to befriended
t
For
the honour
of
5'efw Cbriffs fake.
34.
In
the
Litany,inftead
of
Fornication
and all
other deadly
Sin,would
it
not
fatisfie
thus
?
From Fornication
and
all other
grievous
Sins.
;p. It
is
very
fit
that
the Imperte
&ions
of the
Metre in the
lunging Pfalms
Ihould
be mended,
and then
Lawful
Authority
added
unto
them, to
have
them
publickly
Tung
before and after Sermons, and fometimes inftead
of
the Hymns
of
Morning
and Evening Prayer.
The
LIFE
,of,
,
the,
:
LIB.
J.
I
2,43.