THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF The United Church of England and Ireland: TOGETHER WITH SUCH OF THE SUNDAY LESSONS, 2 WITH NOTES By Sir JOHN BAYLEY, Knt. LONDON: C. & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; 1824. 13983. d. 6 PREFACE. In those parts of Scripture which occur in the Prayer Book or constitute the Old Testament Sunday Lessons, many require explanation, and many admit of observations upon those important points, the evidences of Christianity, and the pre-existence and divinity of our Saviour. To these points the earlier notes in the following work are principally directed, and attention is called to the authenticity of the Old Testament and of the New, to the prophecies they contain, the miracles they record, the conduct of our Saviour and his followers which they detail, the nature of the precepts enjoined, and of the obedience required. In the notes upon our Saviour's divinity, where particular texts can be better appreciated in the original than in the translation, the original is set out, that the scholar may judge for himself to what weight the text is intitled. In the notes upon the Psalms, a short abstract is given of the contents of each, the name of the Author and the occasion of writing it, when known, are mentioned, and where the Psalm is clearly prophetical, the prophecy is noticed, and its completion. Upon the Sunday Lessons the notes are chiefly explanatory. The work is not of deep research, or high pretensions ; but it has not been hastily produced, and is the genuine A 2 result of repeated, though unassisted, consideration. To those who have made the Scriptures their study, it will offer little, if any thing, new, and can only be of use as a compendium in the absence of other Books. To others, it may point out and fix in the mind the foundations of a Christian's faith, and by a periodical recurrence to the different parts of it on the days to which they belong, it may produce a habit of searching out the meaning of obscure passages, and make the Scriptures better understood. That it may increase religious knowledge, promote religious habits, and bring into practice the Christian charities and virtues, the true religion of the heart, is the earnest wish with which it is published. Tables are placed after the calendar to point out where notes upon particular subjects (especially upon the evidences of Christianity, and the pre-existence and divinity of Christ,) occur, and to shew where particular parts of Scripture are to be found. June, 1824. de forma CON INS Easter Eve. 1 Lesson, Zech. 9 Exodus 13 Nativity of Isaiah | Isaiah 2 Lesson, Luke 23, v.50 Hebr. 4 Christ. 9, to ver. 8 17, v. 10 to 17 Easter Day, Sundays after 1 Lesson, Exodus 12 | Exodus 14 Christmas. 2 Lesson, Romans 6 Acts 2, v. 22 Isaiah 37 | Isaiah 38 Monday in 41 43 Easter Week. 1 Lesson, Exodus 16 Sundays after Exodus 17 | Lesson, Matt. 28 | Acts 3 the Epiphany Isaiah 44 Isaiah 46 Tuesday in Easter Week. 1 Lesson, Exodus 20 | Exodus 32 2 Lesson, Luke 24, to 1 Cor. 15 v. 13 65 Sundays after Septuagesima. Genesis 1 | Genesis 2 | Easter. Numbers 16 Numbers 22 Sexagesima. I 3 6 23, 24 Deuter. 4 | Deuter. 5 Quinquage-} | 9, to ver. 20 1 2 sima. S os on line CON 25 G A CON 22 Day. Sundays in Ascension Day. Deuter. 10 2 Kings 2 2 Lesson, | Luke 24, to Eph. 4, to 39 v. 44 v. 17 Exodus 3 | Exodus 5 || Sunday after Ascension Deuter. 12 | Deuter. 13 1 Lesson, 10 2 Lesson, Matt. 26 Heb.5, to v.11 Whit Sunday. Deuter. Wedn. before 1 Lesson, | 16, to v. 18 | Isaiah 11 Easter. 2 Lesson, Acts 10, v. 34 Acts 19, to 1 Lesson, | Hosea 13 | Hosea 14 v. 21 2 Lesson, John 11, v. 45 Monday in Whitsun Week Thurs. before 1 Lesson, Gen. 11, to Numb. 11, Easter. v. 16 to 30 1 Lesson, Daniel 9 Jerem. 31 | 2 Lesson, | 1 Cor. 12 1 Cor. 14, to 2 Lesson, John 13 v. 26 v. 10 |
