registrar, the instrument praying for the consecration and constant appropriation of the chapel to the service of God.

After this the two chaplains read alternately the 24th Psalm, and after the Doxology had been said, the Bishop advancing nearer the porch, said, I was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Then all entering the chapel, the Bishop read, with some few accommodations to this service, the dedication prayer of King David, the 29th chapter of the First Book of Chronicles, from the 10th to the 18th verse inclusive. Then followed the prayer, 'Most glorious God.' This prayer is in part taken from one in common use at that time, and recorded to have been offered up also at the consecration of a chapel at Edmonton by Bishop King in 1615,' and of another chapel in Clay Hall in the parish of Barking, Essex, September 15, 1616, by Dr. Thomas Morton, Bishop of Chester (afterward of Durham). It is remarkable that in the Parentalia Bishop Wren is said to have prepared an office for consecrating a church at Dore in Herefordshire, in 1634.

After the longer prayer commemorating the precedents of such acts of consecration, followed a prayer and benediction in the name of the Holy Trinity. Then the Bishop laying his hand upon the font consecrated it with a short prayer, as also the pulpit, reading-desk, communion-table, site of joining of hands in matrimony, and the whole pavement with reference to such bodies as should be interred beneath. Then a general prayer of dedication for the whole church was said by the Bishop before the communion-table. Then the morning service commenced. For the psalms were read the 84th, 122nd, and 132nd. The first lesson was the 28th chapter of Genesis, in which is read the dedication of Bethel by Jacob. For the second was read the 2nd chapter of St. John from the 13th verse to the end, in which is read the purifying of the Temple. After the three Collects the Bishop said a fourth, full of that humility and earnest devotion for which he was ever so

1 Jer. Collier's History of the Church of England, ii. p. 709. 1 Parentalia, p. 50.

conspicuous. Then the other chaplain read the Litany, and the Bishop concluded with a prayer, as for himself and from himself apart from the congregation, that God would be pleased to hear whatsoever prayers should in that place be made according to his will. After the benediction the 132nd Psalm was sung, and Mr. Robinson, B.D., brother-in-law to the founder, preached the sermon from the 16th verse of the 28th chapter of Genesis.

After the sermon a poor woman returned thanks to Almighty God for safe deliverance. The psalm used previously to the last review was the 121st. The Communion service was then commenced by the two chaplains, standing one on either side the holy table. Before the Epistle for the day a special Collect was read: Most blessed Saviour, who by thy bodily presence at the feast of dedication didst bancur and approve such devout and religions services as we have now in hand, be then present also at this time with us, and consecrate us into an holy temple unto thysel that then dwelling in our hearts by faith, we may be cleansed from all carnal affections, and devoutly given to serve thee in all good works. Amen."

The Epistle was 1 Cor. EL from ver. 16 to the end; the Gospel from the 10th chapter of St. John, from ver. to the en Then after the Nicene Creed the Bishop, casting himself down before the boy table, prayed the dedication prayer of Solomon, 2 Chrom, vi from ver. 18 to ver. 4) praying also at the end that God would favourably hear this congregation as he did Solomra. Then sitting in his chain, with his head covered. Thomas Riley his Chancellor standing on his right hand, and Dr. Barlow, Archdeacon of Winchester, ca is left be read in Latin the Act of Consecration, Dedicatie, and Appropriation. The chapel was named Jesus Chapel, as a chapel-of-ease to St. Mary's parish near Southampton. The eficiating minister was to be endowed with at least 2) marks

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The patronage was to be in the family of the founder. Then a short prayer was added by the Bishop, that God would bless this day's action unto his people. After this those who did not communicate were dismissed.

At the Offertory was collected £4 12s. 2d., which the Bishop ordered to be appropriated to the purchasing of a chalice for the use of the chapel. Before the consecration prayer of the Communion service the Bishop washed his hands, and mixed water with the wine, according to the custom of the Church from the age of St. Cyprian. After he had received the holy Communion, he delivered it first to the founder, then to his chaplains, and delivered the bread to all the rest, one of the chaplains delivering the wine. The Bishop read the first of the two prayers that precede the Gloria in Excelsis, and concluded with a prayer for the founder and for all who should hereafter enjoy the benefit of this his munificent and pious act.

After the Bishop and a numerous company had dined at the founder's house at Peer Tree (now called Pear Tree), the congregation reassembled in the chapel, and one of the chaplains read the Lord's Prayer, and for the psalms was read alternately the 90th Psalm. The act of consignation of the churchyard was then read, and after confirmed by the founder and his neighbours. The time being short the second lesson was omitted, and only the 23rd chapter of Genesis read, being the account of the burial of Sarah. The act of consignation and remainder of the consecration service was read in the churchyard; which being completed they returned to the chapel, and sang the first part of the 16th Psalm, and Matthew Wren preached the sermon from The zeal of thine house hath even eaten me. After sermon, was sung the rest of Psalm xvi., and the service, beginning at the Apostles' Creed, proceeded in the ordinary course.

The Rev. James Bliss, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, the able editor of Bishop Andrewes' Minor Works (Oxford, 1854), and Vicar of Ogbourne St. Andrew near Marlborough, observes of Andrewes' Form for the Consecration of a Church or Chapel, that it was first published in 32mo in 1659, with a preface

dated May 29 of that year; that the only orgy of this edition which he had seen was now in the Bodleian Library, and that it was afterwards reprinted in quam and appended to Bishop Sparrow's Collection of die It has since been reprinted and bound up with Bishre Sparrow's Eationale of the Book of Common Prayer.

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CHAPTER XX.

Bishop Andrewes preaches at the opening of Parliament 1621-His Sermon upon Fasting-Upon St. John xx. 17-Whitsunday— Archbishop Abbot's calamity—Andrewes befriends Abbot—Entertains Junius and Doublet at Farnham-Dr. Thomas Goad.

ON the assembling of the Parliament, 1621, our prelate preached before them in the Abbey of Westminster from the first psalm in the evening service (Psalm lxxxii.), God standeth in the congregation of princes; in the midst will he judge the gods. Upon the words God standeth, he contrasts with God's unchangeable the mortal nature of princes, these earthly gods; and says, in allusion to that most solemn sanctuary of death in which they were then met, "This could not be told us in a fitter place: the place where we stand is compassed about with a congregation of these fallen gods, these same Dii caduci (fragile gods), with monuments of the mortality of many a great Elohim (God) in their times. And let me tell you this, that in the Hebrew tongue the grave is called a. synagogue as well as the church. All shall be gathered, even the gods, even the whole synagogue of them, into this synagogue at last." Very plain and earnest is the whole sermon, treating of the presence of God, and of the duty of being well affected toward his presence if we would stand in the judgment.

On February 14, Ash-Wednesday, Bishop Andrewes preached at Whitehall upon the duty of fasting, overthrowing the cavils of those who would expunge when from the text