...Antiquities, supra. the head of this office,) which has been occasionally a stone of stumbling. " Here is to be noted, that the office ensuing is not to...excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves." First, then, the office is not to be used for those that die unbaptized.* This has been occasionally...

...Holy Communion was administered. Of the Introductory Rubrics. The first Rubric cautions the minister that " the office ensuing is not to be used for any...unbaptized or excommunicate, or have laid violent hands on themselves." This prohibition of reading the burial service over the unbaptized is quite in accordance...

...his time.] 202 THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. Here u to be noted, that the Office entving it not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent handt upon thenuelvet. Cnllil'iiry Uie. INHUMATIO DEFUNCTI. THE BURIAL OFFICE. A question not unfreqnently...

...but inserting the words, " who being of sound mind," so that the amended rubric will read — Here is to be noted that the Office ensuing is not to be nsed for any that die nnbaptised, or excommunicate, or who, bein-g of sound mind, have laid violent...

...latter court by granting a It is provided by the rubric that the office for the burial of the dead is not to be used for any that die unbaptized or excommunicate,...have laid violent hands upon themselves (/) ; but with these exceptions, the minister is bound to read the burial service over the corpse of every parishioner...

...should be sought in the direction indicated in the following modification of the rubric : — ^ Here is to be noted that the office ensuing is not to be used for any that die unbapti/ed, or excommunicate ; or have laid violent hands upon themselves, and have not been declared...

...means for infringing it are afforded by the rubric prefixed to the burial service, a rubric directing that " the office ensuing is not to be used for any...excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves." Excommunication is no longer practised. To refuse the burial office to suicides is a penal measure,...

...end of the rubric. I would suggest, then, that the first rubric should read as follows: — Here it is to be noted that the Office ensuing is not to be used for any who die nnbuptised or excommunicate, or who have died in the commission of any grievous criige, or...

...ii. c. 16, where it is assigned to Fabian, bishop of Rome. a Cf. the rubric in the Burial Service, ' the office ensuing is not to be used for any that die ... excommunicate.' one of the chief characteristics of the Reforming party, and its revival in practice...

...; and the concluding Benediction added. £ The Introductory Rubrics. — The first Rubric directs " that the office ensuing is not to be used for any...excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves." Wheatley remarks that these prohibitions are " exactly agreeable. to the ancient practice of the Church."...