4. Vntruth. That we haue a sure and certaine hope of euery one to be buried that he shall rise againe to euerlasting life.
We are not required by the booke of common praier to haue a sure and certaine hope of euery one to be buried, because not of euery notorious impenitent malefactor cut off by law, or a murtherer of himselse, or dying excommunicate, all which are buried, but of euery one liuing & dying in the fellowship of Christ his Church, professing the same faith, pertaking the same Sacraments, of whom we hope the best, but no farder, nor otherwise then thorough Iesus Christ, for in the buriall we pro∣fesse that to be the bond of our hope. If any minister be sure to the contrarie, discretion may be vsed, which we hold safest when it is with direction from the Bishop, as in such cases of doubt the Booke well prescribeth. Sée more, part. 2. cap. 1.
5. Vntruth. That nothing is ordained by it to be reade in Gods ser∣uice, but the very pure word of God, the holy Scriptures, or that which is vndoubtedly grounded vpon the same.
No vntruth. Because there are left out as the preface of the Booke sheweth many things, whereof some be vntrue, some vaine and superstitious, in consideration whereof this sentence prefixed there followeth. Nothing is ordained to be reade but, &c. And for any instance is giuen to the contrarie it is, but their idle surmise.
6. That in the course of reading appointed so much as possibly may be, the reading of the holy Scripture is so set forth, that all things shall be done in order without breaking of one peece from another.
It is no breaking of one peece from another to read chap∣ter after Chapter, as time shall serue, & the Minister or Church doth see good, that so the whole Bible, or the greatest part thereof may be read ouer once in the yeare. But the preface calleth that breaking one peece from another, when vncertaine