THE ORDER HOW THE PSALTER AND THE REST OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE 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 twenty­ninth Day of the Month.

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.

The Old Testament is appointed for the first Lesson at Morn­ing and Evening Prayer; so as the most part thereof will be read over every year once, as in the Calendar is appointed.

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

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 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.

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

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