...is directed to lie said by the priest at Morning Prayer, after the ending of the Litany. " Brethren, in the Primitive Church, there was a godly discipline,...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin, were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day...

...abeyance of the Church's discipline in an Office which he used and highly valued : — " Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline,...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open Penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day...

...present abeyance of the Church's discipline in an Office which he used and highly valued: — "Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline,...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open Penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day...

...the accustomed manner ; which ended, the Priest shall go into the Pulpit, and say thus : BRETHREN, in the primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as were notorious sinners were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might...

...O most mighty God,' are found in the Sacramentary of Gelasius. NOTE. — ' In the primitive Church at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance. The mode of inflicting penance in the twelfth century is thus described...

...SPIRIT; seeking always H1s glory, and serving HIM duly in our vocation with thanksgiving." " Brethren, in the "Primitive Church there was a godly discipline,...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance." . . . . "Spare us, therefore, good LORD, spare THY people, whom THOU...

...COMMIKATION, TO BE USED ON THE FIRST DAT OF LENT. The preface which the Church has prefixed to this office informs us, that in the primitive Church there was...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious crimes were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the...

...service so well confirms what I have been saying, that I cannot do better than quote it. " Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline,...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day...

...as the Ordinary shall appoint." After Morning Prayer, " the priest " is required to say, " Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline,...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day...

...spectacle of the Church raving and cursing is too edifying to be ungratefully ignored. " Brethren, in the primitive Church there was a godly discipline...Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved. . Instead...