...accordance with the order enjoined by ' The Book of Common Prayer' " that such ornaments of the church shall be retained and be in use as were in this Church...authority of Parliament in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth." A cross ought to be placed, as it is in the present day in many churches,...

...the Table "to find Easter for ever," and the Rubrics respecting the place for Divine Service, and the Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof at all times of their ministration, do not appear: and it may be here observed, that no allusion is made to the Occasional Services. The...

...his chaplain. And in the Rubric, before the Common Prayer, in our present Liturgy, it is ordered that such ornaments of the Church, and of the ministers...authority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward VI. — See Burn's Ecclesiastical Law. Bishops. * Charge, 1842, p. 52. solemn services...

...Convocation and Act of Parliament. " The Rubric is as follows : ' And here it is to be noted, that such ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers...Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of Kmg Edward the Sixth.' To know then what are the ornaments of the Church which the Prayer Book orders...

...an order by which the practice must be understood to be enjoined, for it expressly requires, " That such ornaments of the church, and of the ministers...Church of England by the authority of Parliament in the 2nd year of the reign of King Edward VI. ;" and if lights upon the altar may be classed, as I conceive...

...commencement of the Book of Common Prayer occurs the following Rubric,—" And here is to be noted that such " ornaments of the Church and of the ministers...were in this Church of England by the authority of Par" liament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward the "Sixth." The question, then, arises...

...it is to be noted, that such ornaments of the church, and the ministers thereof, at all times of the ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as...authority of Parliament in the second year of the reign of King Edward the 6th," which Act is called the Act of Uniformity, and to it and King Edward's Prayer...

...of precedents, examples, and references with respect to the full meaning of the rubric about " the ornaments of the church, and of the ministers thereof, at all times of their ministration." We believe it is the Act 31 Henry VIII., cap. 8, to which our correspondent wishes to be referred....

...s. 25, expressly enacts that " such ornaments of the Church and of the ministers thereof, *-//«// be retained and be in use as were in this Church of England, by authority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward VI., the very language now...

...England, when she orders that " the chancels shall remain as they have done in times past," and " that such ornaments of the church, and of the ministers thereof, at all time of their ministration, shall be retained and be in use, as were in this Church of England by the...