Chap. IX. The HISTORY of the PURITAN'S, p r 2.." That the mufic ufed in cathedral and collegiate churches be K. Charlesl. " framed with lefs curiofity; and that no hymns or anthems be ufed r64r. " where ditties are framed by private men, but fuch as are contained °' in the holy fcriptures, or in our liturgy or prayers, or have public al- " lowance. 3. " That the reading defk be placed in the church, where divine fer- " vice may be belt heard of the people." III. Confideratiorès upon the book ofcommon prayer. t. " Whether the names of force departedfaints fhould not be [truck " out of the calendar ? 2. " Whether the rubrick thould not be mended, where all thofe wit- " merits are commanded which were ufed in the zd year of Edw. VI, " Whether leffons of canonical fcripture fhould not be inferted in- " to the calendar inflead of apocrypha? 4. " In the rubrick for the Lord's fupper, whether it fhould not " be inferted, that fuch as intend to communicate {hall fignify their " names to the curate over night, or in the morning before " prayers? 5. The next rubrick to be explained, how far a minifter may re. pulfe a fcandalous and notorious firmer from the communion ? 6. " Whether it be not fit to infert a rubrick, touching kneeling " at the communion, that it is to comply in all humility with the " prayer which the minifter makes, when he delivers the ele- " ments ? 7. " Whether there fhould not be a rubrick to take away all offence " from the cross in baptifm ? Or whether it be more expedient that it " be wholly difufed ? And whether this reafon [hall be publifhed, " that in ancient liturgies no croft was figned upon the party but where " oil alto was ufed, and therefore oil being now omitted, fo may that " which was concomitant with it, the fign of the crois ? 8. " Whether the cathechifm may not receive a little more enlarge- " ment ? q. " Whether the times prohibited for marriage are quite to be " taken away ? Whether thofe words in the office, with my body I thee " worfhip, fhould not be thus altered, I give thee power over my body 2 " And whether that part of the rubrick, which obliges the newmarried perfons to receive the communion the fameday of their marriage, might " not be changed for the next funday, when the communion is cele- " brated ? ao. "Whe-
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