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Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend…Certayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend…
Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Junius, divinity reader at Leiden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where upon the said letters were first writtenCertayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Iunius, divinitie reader at Leyden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where vpon the said letters were first written
Amsterdam : Printed, in the year. 1602Amsterdam : Printed, in the yeare. 1602
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly / for the administration / which is by law imposed upon all both Clergy and Laity, (for so they distinguish them) they have gathered their service book verbatim out of the mass boo•• / turning out of latin into english the Suffrages, ⟨p. 10⟩Prayers, Litany, Collects, &c. (leaving on• some of the gross points therein) keeping still the old fashion of Psalms Chapters Pistles / Gospels / versicles responds / also Te Deum, Be•edictus, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, Our Father, Lord have mercy upon us, The Lord be with you, O Lord open t•ow my lips, Glory to God on high, Lift up your harts, O come let us rejoice, Glory be to the Father, Quicunque vult, &c. These do they read daily morning and evening all the year long in their priestly vestures / Surplus / cope / and c. some they say / and some they singe having in their Cathedral Churches / the Organs, Queristers, singing men and boys as in times past in popery. Many popish errors yet remain in that book which their own preachers have noted / and found fault with▪ There are they prescribed what prayers to read over the dead / over the corn and grass / some time in the year.1 By it are they enjoined to keep their holy days to their Lady (as they call her) to all Saints and Angels / to all Christs Apostles / (except Paul and Barnabas) whose eves they are commanded to fast / as also their Lent and Ember days / besides fridays / and Saturdays through out the whole year. By this book are the ministers instructed how to marry with the sign of the Ring / and c. to baptise in the hallowed Font with sign of the cross / with Godfathers and Godmothers / asking the child whether it will forsake the devil and all his works / and c. to minister also their other sacrament or communion to the people kneeling / as when in popery they received their maker / the words of Christs institution altered and others in stead of them taken out of the popes portuis / with innumerable such like enormities and fopperies wherewith it swarmeth. And this is all the worship and service which many parishes have continually / except peradventure some written homilies which the unlearned priests read unto them. This service must first be read / and hath the preeminence even on the Lords days before any preaching yra before the Bible it self: