THE ORDER HOW THE PSALTER IS APPOINTED TO BE READ. HE Psalter shall be read through once every Month, as it is there 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-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 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, 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. THE ORDER HOW THE REST OF HOLY SCRIPTURE Time there will be read every year THE Old Testament is appointed for the first Lessons at Morning and once, as in the Calendar is appointed. The New Testament is appointed for the second Lessons 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. To be read at Morning and Evening Prayer, on the Sundays, and other Holy-days throughout the Year. 1 LESSONS PROPER FOR SUNDAYS. Evensong. Sundays after Mattins. Easter. Evensong. 4. 6 079 30 32 Sunday after Ascen. Day. Whit-Sunday. (v. 18 1 Lesson. 16 to Isaiah 11 41 43 2 Lesson. Acts 10v.34 Acts 19 to (ข. 21 Genesis 1 Genesis 18 1 Lesson. 2 Lesson. (v. 8 (to v. 17 Isaiah 9 to Isai. 7 v. 10 Luke 2 to Tit. 3 v. 4 (ข. 15 (to v. 91 Innocents' Jerem.31to Wisdom 1 (ν. 23 Wisdom 5 Wisdom 6 Acts 22 to Acts 26 Mattins. Evensong. Circumcision. 2 Epiphany. 1 Lesson. Isaiah 60 Isaiah 49 2 Lesson. Luke 3 to John 2 to (ν. 12 Conversion of 8. Paul. 1 Lesson. 2 Lesson. S. James. Lesson. (ν. 22 1 Lesson. Gen. 11 to Num. 11 v. Purific. of the Virgin Mary. Wisdom 9 Wisdom 12 (ν. 26 1 Sam. 19 Deuter. 30 Christmas- 19,45,85 89,110,132 Easter-Day. 2, 57, 111 113,114,118 Good Friday. 22, 40,54 69,88 104, 145 |