1 THE ORDER HOW THE PSALTER IS APPOINTED

TO BE READ.

THE Psalter shall be read through once every Month, 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.

And, whereas January, March, May, July, August, October, and December have One- and­thirty 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 at one time; It is so ordered, that

at one time shall not be 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 to know what Lessons shall be read every day, look for the day of the Month in the Calendar following, and there ye shall find the Chapters and portions of Chapters that shall be read for the Lessons, both at Morning and Evening Prayer, except only the Moveable Feasts, which are not in the Calendar, and the Immoveable, where there is a blank left in the Column of Lessons, the Proper Lessons for all which days are to be found in the Table of Proper Lessons.

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.

THE ORDER HOW THE REST OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

IS APPOINTED TO BE READ.

If Evening Prayer is said at two different times in the same place of worship on any Sunday( except a Sunday for which Alternative second Lessons are specially appointed in the Table,) the second Lesson at the second time

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.

THE Old Testament is appointed for the may, at the discretion of the Minister, be any

first at Chapter from the four or any Lesson Prayer, so as the most part thereof will be appointed in the Table of Lessons from the read every year once, as in the Calendar is four Gospels. appointed.

The New Testament is appointed for the second Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer, and shall be read over orderly every year twice, once in the Morning and once in the Evening, besides the Epistles and Gospels, except the Apocalypse, out of which there are only certain Lessons appointed at the end of the year, and certain Proper Lessons appointed upon divers Feasts.

Upon occasions, to be approved by the Ordinary, other Lessons may, with his con­sent, be substituted for those which are ap­pointed in the Calendar.

And note, that whensoever Proper Psalms or Lessons are appointed, then the Psalms and Lessons of ordinary course appointed in the Psalter and Calendar( if they be different) shall be omitted for that time.

Note also, that upon occasions to be ap­pointed by the Ordinary, other Psalms may, with his consent, be substituted for those ap­pointed in the Psalter.

If any of the Holy- days for which Proper Lessons are appointed in the Table fall upon a Sunday which is the first Sunday in Advent, Easter- Day, Whit- Sunday, or Trinity- Sunday, the Lessons appointed for such Sunday shall be read, but if it fall upon any other Sunday, the Lessons appointed either for the Sunday or for the Holy- day may be read at the dis­cretion of the Minister.

Note also, that the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel appointed for the Sunday shall serve all the week after, where it is not in this Book otherwise ordered.