. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. Article ofChriftiau Faith > and the fame may be the Meansto convince him alfo, and make him believe thefame, and fo fall down and worjbip God. And thisis according to ^/sRule, 1 23, 24,2f , who thence concludes, that all our publicicreligious Services ought to be fodone, that the Un-learned or Unbeliever may be convinced, and broughtto worjljip God. For the due Performance of thefe holy pub-lick Services, aPrieff,, ordained for Men in Thingspertaining to God, Heb. v. 1. is required by theChurch y as it ought t
. A Rationale, or practical exposition of the Book of common-prayer. Article ofChriftiau Faith > and the fame may be the Meansto convince him alfo, and make him believe thefame, and fo fall down and worjbip God. And thisis according to ^/sRule, 1 23, 24,2f , who thence concludes, that all our publicicreligious Services ought to be fodone, that the Un-learned or Unbeliever may be convinced, and broughtto worjljip God. For the due Performance of thefe holy pub-lick Services, aPrieff,, ordained for Men in Thingspertaining to God, Heb. v. 1. is required by theChurch y as it ought to be, and as it was of Chryfoftomy Horn. 4. in Hebr. Ambr. ;o. I t was an ancient Cuftom, after Burial, to goto the holy COMMUNION, unlels the Of-fice were performed after Noon. For then, if Menwere not Faiting, it was done only with Prayers,Cone. Carthag. 2. Can. 29. Funeral Doles alfowere an ancient Cuftom. St. Chry/ojlom, in Mattb. Tbankf- 2l8 A Rationale Thankfgiving of Women after Child-birth,commonly called A Churching HE Woman, when fhe comes to give her Thanks, fhall kneel near to the Place where the holy Table ftands: But in the Church oiRorne, fhe was to kneel at the Church-Door. The Woman may come to give her Thanks,whenfoever {he fhall be able, Decretal, 1. 3. tit. if ihe be likely to live, fhe is required by theCivil Law, according to the Tradition of theChurch, to forbear the coming to partake of theholy Myftery forty Days after the Birth : Not forany Unholinefs in the Woman, or Incapacity ofreceiving the holy Myfteries at that Time* (for ifthere be Fear of Death, fhe may receive them, asfoon as ihe pleafes after the Birth) but for fomefecret Reafons in the Law, which are fet down,Conftit. Leon. 17. The Woman that is to be churched, is tohave a Veil: And good Reafon j for if, as St. Paul,1 Cor. xi. fays, Every Woman, when Jhe prays inpublick, ought to have a Veil, or Covering on herHead, in Token of her Modefty and Su
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