Marriage, simply as marriage, is not the means “for the procreation of children,” but for the humanisation of the offspring procreated. Therefore, in the Declaration at the beginning, after the words “procreation of children,” I would insert, “and as the means of securing to the children procreated enduring care, and that they may be,” &c. COMMUNION OF THE SICK. Third rubric at the end. But if a man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, &c. I think this rubric, in what I conceive to be its true meaning, a precious doctrine, as fully acquitting our Church of all Romish superstition, respecting the nature of the Eucharist, in relation to the whole scheme of man’s redemption. But the latter part of it—“he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his soul’s health, although he do not receive the sacrament with his mouth”—seems to me very incautiously expressed, and scarcely to be reconciled with the Church’s own definition of a sacrament in general. For in such a case, where is “the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual grace given?” XI. SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Epistle.—l Cor. xv. 1. _Brethren_, _I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you_. Why should the obsolete, though faithful, Saxon translation of εὐαγγέλιον be retained? Why not “good tidings?” Why thus change a most appropriate and intelligible designation of the matter into a mere conventional name of a particular book? Ib. —_how that Christ died for our sins_. But the meaning of ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν is, that Christ died through the sins, and for the sinners. He died through our sins, and we live through his righteousness. Gospel—Luke xviii. 14. _This man went down to his house justified rather than the other_. Not simply justified, observe; but justified rather than the other, ἤ ἐκεῖνος,—that is, less remote from salvation. XXV. SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Collect. —that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded. Rather—“that with that enlarged capacity, which without thee we cannot acquire, there may likewise be an increase of the gift, which from thee alone we can wholly receive.” Ps. VIII. V. 2. _Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength_, _because of thine enemies_; _that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger_. To the dispensations of the twilight dawn, to the first messengers of the redeeming word, the yet lisping utterers of light and life, a strength and power were given _because of the enemies_, greater and of more immediate influence, than to the seers and proclaimers of a clearer day: even as the first reappearing crescent of the eclipsed moon shines for men with a keener brilliance than the following larger segments, previously to its total emersion. Ib. v. 5. _Thou madest him lower than the angels_, _to crown him with glory and worship_.