The primitive rule of Reformation according to the first liturgy of K. Edward VI, 1549 containing an extract of the same, so far as it is Popishly affected : together with several honourable testimonials thereof from church and state, of that, and of succeeding ages : as also the wishes of several churches and chuchmen of the Reformation, for restoring the said liturgy in parts.

For the Chrysomes.

Light was imitated by the White Garment received in Baptism, as the Emperours expound it in Theodosians Code; Coelestis Lamen Lavacri imitantis novam Sanctae Baptismatis Lucem Vestimenta testantur. Cod. Theod. de Spectac. So the Priest in the Order of Severus, Change (says he, bespeaking the New Converts) your Garments, and be White as Snow, and let the Light shine as the Angels.

Remaining yet unto us of this, is that which we more commonly call Chrysome (ab Ʋnctione, as the Manual, &c.) wherewith the Women use to shrowd the Child, if dying within the Month. Otherwise it is to be brought to the Church, at the day of Purification.

But by an Order of Baptism in Edward the VI's Litur∣gy of the year 1549. it was to be put upon the Child at the Font, for the Rubrick is, Then the Godfathers and Godmothers shall take and lay their Hands upon the Child,

and the Minister shall put upon him his White Vesture commonly called the Chrysome, and say,

Take this White Vesture for a token, &c.

And good Reason, for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: White does best become the Children of Light, Clemens Alexandrinus. Thus far Mr. Gregory of Christ-Church Oxon in his Notes and Observations on Passages of Scripture, cap. 22. On the Meaning and Considerations of Light in Scripture; who is thought fit to deserve a place among the Volumes of the Criticks.

Low-Sunday, in Latine, Dominica in Albis, or rather, Post Albas (sc. depositas) as some Old Rituals call it; be∣cause those that were Baptiz'd on Easter-Eve, wore seven days after, white Garments, called Chrysomes, Signs of the Purity which they receiv'd in Baptism: Which White Cloathes they this day put off; so Sparrow's Rationale up∣on Low-Sunday.