The daily office of a Christian being the devotions of the most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud, late archbishop of Canterbury : wherein several catechetical paraphrases ...
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- The daily office of a Christian being the devotions of the most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud, late archbishop of Canterbury : wherein several catechetical paraphrases ...
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- Laud, William, 1573-1645.
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- 1683.
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An Advertisement CONCERNING The Division of the Hours of PRAYER.
IT appeareth, both by the Histories of the Jews, and by plain Obser∣vations out of the New Testa∣ment, that the space of the Day from the Morning to the Evening was so∣lemnly divided into four equal parts, which they called Hours, [to wit] the First, the Third, the Sixth, and the Ninth. The First Hour comprehended the whole space from the Sun being risen, about six of the clock in the Morning after our account, till Nine, or therea∣bouts. The Third Hour began from thence, and lasted till High-noon with us. The Sixth, from thence to our three of the clock after Noon. The Ninth,
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from that hour, to the Vespers, or Even∣song, about six in the evening, or Sun-set. And what was done in any part of these four spaces, was indifferently taken and said to be done in that Hour, whereun∣to every space of time was allotted. In which respect St. Mark, chap. 15. 25. saith, It was the Third Hour when they crucified Christ: and yet St. John, chap. 19. 14. saith, It was about the Sixth Hour before he was yet cru∣cified. Nor is there any contradiction at all between these two Evangelists; St. Mark understanding the last part of the Third Hour, which was now at the very end; and St. John meaning that it was now near upon the beginning of the Sixth Hour, which was immediately to follow; the ending of the Third, and the beginning of the Sixth, being both one and the same point of time.