HOW THE PSALTER IS TO BE READ.

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cause with the Ceremonies re­served to be offended. For as those be taken away which were most abused, and did burden men's consciences without any cause; so the other that remain, But now as concerning those are retained for a discipline and persons, which peradventure will order, which( upon just causes) be offended, for that some of the may be altered and changed, and old Ceremonies are retained still: therefore are not to be esteemed If they consider that without some equal with God's Law. And more­Ceremonies it is not possible to over, they be neither dark nor keep any Order, or quiet Disci- dumb Ceremonies, but are so set pline in the Church, they shall forth, that every man may un­easily perceive just cause to re- derstand what they do mean, and form their judgements. And if to what use they do serve. they think much, that any of the that it is not like that they in old do remain, and would rather time to come should be abused as have all devised anew: then such other have been. And in these men granting some Ceremonies our doings we condemn no other convenient to be had, surely where Nations, nor prescribe any thing the old may be well used, there but to our own people only: For they cannot reasonably reprove we think it convenient that every the old only for their age, without Country should use such Ceremo­bewraying of their own folly. For nies as they shall think best to in such a case they ought rather the setting forth of God's honour to have reverence unto them for and glory, and to the reducing of their antiquity, if they will declare the people to a most perfect and themselves to be more studious of godly living, without error or su­unity and concord, than of innd- perstition; and that they should vations and new- fangleness, which put away other things, which from ( as much as may be with true time to time they perceive to be setting forth of Christ's Religion) most abused, as in men's ordi­is always to be eschewed. Fur- nances it often chanceth diversly thermore, such shall have no just in divers countries.

ly by the unsatiable avarice of such as sought more their own lucre, than the glory of God, that the abuses could not well taken away, the thing remaining still.

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THE ORDER HOW THE PSALTER IS

APPOINTED TO BE READ. HE Psalter shall be read

as it is there appointed, both for Morning and Evening Prayer, But in February it shall be read only to the twenty- eighth, or twenty- ninth day of the Month.

at one time; It is so ordered,

shall

read above four or five of the said portions.

And at the end of every Psalm, and of every such part of the 119th Psalm, shall be repeated this Hymn,

And, whereas January, March, May, July, August, October, and December have One- and- thirty days apiece; It is ordered, that the same Psalms shall be read the last day of the said months, which were read the day before: So that the Psalter may begin again the first day of the next month ensuing.

And, whereas the 119th Psalm is divided into twenty- two por­tions, and is over- long to be read

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Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

Note, that the Psalter followeth the Division of the Hebrews, and the Translation of the great Eng­lish Bible, set forth and used in the time of King Henry the Eighth, and Edward the Sixth,