The ORDER how the Pfalter is appointed to be read. THE Psalter shall be T 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. read through once every Month, as it is And whereas January, March, May, July, August. October, and December, have One and Thirty Days a-piece; 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 CXIX Psalm is divided into XXII 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. The Minister, instead of reading from the Psalter as divided for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, may read one of the Selections set out by this Church. And, on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, appointed either by the Civil or by the Ecclesiastical Authority, the Minister may appoint such Psalms as he shall think fit in his discrétion, unless any shall have been appointed by the Ecclesiastical Authority, in a Service set out for the Occasion; which, in that Case, shall be. used, and no other. Proper PSALMS on certain Days. 68 145 The Minister may use one of the Selections, instead of any one of the above Portions. The The ORDER how the Rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed T to be read. 1 LP HE Old Testament is s appointed for the First Lef fons at Morning and Evening Prayer; fo that the moft Part thereof will be read every Year once, as in the Calendar is appointed. IL TRATA The New Testament is appointed for the Second Lef fons at Morning and Evening Prayer. 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 Leffons, both at Morning and Evening Prayer; ex cept only the Moveable Feafts, which are not in the Calendar; and the Immoveable, where there is a Blank left in the Column of Lessons; the proper Leffons for all which Days are to be found in the Table of proper Leffons. i こ And, on Days of Fafting and Thanksgiving, the fame Rule is to obtain, as in reading the Pfalms. And the fame Difcretion of Choice is allowed, on Occafions of Ecclefiaftical Conventions, and those of Charitable Collections. And Note, That whensoever Proper Pfalms or Leffons are appointed, then the Pfalms and Leffons of ordinary Course appointed in the Pfalter and Calendar, if they be different, shall be omitted for that Time. Note also, That the Collect, Epistle, and Gofpel, appointed for the Sunday, shall serve all the Week after, where it is not in this Book otherwise ordered. TABLES |