...contained in Edward's First Book, but subsequently omitted that " as touching kneeling, crossing .... and other gestures, they may be used or left as every...man's devotion serveth without blame." This rubric applied, as it appears to us, not to the officiating minister, but to the congregation ; but Cranmer's...

...borne or holden by his chaplain. § 4. As touching hneeling, crossing, holding up of hands, hnoching upon the breast, and other gestures, they may be used or left, as every man's devotion semeth, \without blame\ § 5. Also upon Christmas day, Easter day, the Ascension Day, Whit-Sunday,...

...primitive times of the church) may be left free, as it was I and 2 Edw., 'As touching kneeling, &c., they may be used or left as every man's devotion serveth, without blame.'" b Histora papalis Transubstantiationis &c.. cap. iv. i 5. Cosin's Works, vol. iv. p. 49. That work...

...129/36. See LIGHT. LEETTE, va vf. LAITE, to leave, to relinquish, to leave undone, В 190; p. 229. " As touching kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands,...they may be used or left, as every man's devotion eerveth." — The Book of Common Prayer, 1549. "When he had left speaking." St Luke, v, 4. "Lest my...

...leave, to relinquish, to leave undone, B 190; p. 229. " A> touching kneeling, crossing, holding np of hands, knocking upon the breast, and other gestures,...be used or left, as every man's devotion serveth." — The Book of Common Prayer, 1649. "When he had left speaking." St Luke, T, 4. " Lest my father leave...

...primitive times of the church) may be left free, as it was 1 and 2 Edw. [VI,] "As touching kneeling, &o., they may be used or left as every man's devotion serveth, without blame."* Rubric. Exception, And note that every par- Forasmuch as every parishioner shall communicate ishioner...

...kneeling and standing, at different parts of the service. A rubric in King Edward VI.'sfirst book says, " as touching kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands,...used or left, as every man's devotion serveth without shame." " Kneeling in prayer," says Dr. Dykes, "standing to sing praise, turningtowards the east when...

...was to the Rubric of 1549 : — " As touching kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands, knocking u/ion the breast and other gestures : they may be used or left as every man's devotion serveth without b lame." Gardiner was ordered (July I4th, 1550) to subscribe a declaration that " it is ordered in...

...devotion, to be used or foreborne as seems desirable. In the First Prayer Book of Edward VI., we read, " As touching kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands,...left, as every man's devotion serveth, without blame." The use of the sign of the cross by individuals is thus explained by St. Ambrose,—" We make the sign...

...be a better principle than that laid down in the rubric of the First Prayer Book of Edward VI. : " As touching kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands,...left, as every man's devotion serveth, without blame." It is interesting to observe, that the custom of genuflecting on the part of the faithful on approaching...