...England after the Reformation. 8vo. cloth, price 13s. "Those who are unacquainted with the ornaments used in the Church of England by Authority of Parliament in the Second year of the Reign of King Edward VI. will 6nd in the Hiernrgia copious information derived from authentic...

...England after the Reformation. 8vo. cloth, price I3s. "Those who are unacquainted with the ornaments used in the Church of England by Authority of Parliament in the Second year of the Reign of King Edward VI. will 6nd in the Hierurgia copious information derived from authentic...

...Minuter, which, as we have just said, is the undoubted original of our present Rubric; and runs thus — ' Be it enacted that such Ornaments of the Church, and of ' the Ministers tliercof, shall be retained and be in use, as was in ' this Church of England by authority of Parliament,...

...According to the act of parliament set forth in the beginning of this book.~\ § penult.0, in these words: "Provided always, and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the church,'' (whereunto the adorning and decent furniture of the communiontable relate,) "and of the ministers thereof,"...

...church and the ministers. This provision is important enough to be copied entire. It reads thus : " Provided always and be it enacted, that such ornaments...England, by authority of parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth, until other order shall be therein taken by the authority of...

...The statute, it is to be observed, says nothing about " times of ministration," but simply enacts " that such ornaments of the church, and of the ministers...Parliament in the second year of King Edward VI." But we must profess ourselves quite unable to see that the additional words used in the present rubric...

...the Sacrament to the communicants, and none other or otherwise' (§ 2). With the farther proviso, ' that such ornaments of the Church and of the ministers...thereof shall be retained and be in use, as was in this Church of England, by authority of Parliament, in the second Parliament sanctions th» Book with...

...assisting ministers may also wear 1 albs with tunicles.' " We think that the language of the Rubric, ' that such ornaments of the Church and of the ministers...thereof . . . shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England by the authority of parliament, in the second year of the reign of King...

...in this Book." And therefore must not be contrary to the Rubric respecting the " ornaments in this Church of England by authority of Parliament, in the second year of King Edward." What then should have been the decision of the Judge in this case, and must be of the Court on appeal,...

...quotations following : — BP. COSINS gives a paraphrase of the 25th Section of this Act, in these words : " Provided always and be it enacted, that " such Ornaments of the Church, (whersunto the adorning and " tii.cent Furniture of the Communion Table relate), and of the " Ministers...