Common Prayer Book, and at last added by the stationers at the end of the Bible. For, though it is expressed in the title of those singing psalms, that they were set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and also before and after sermons; yet this allowance seems rather to have been a _connivance_ than an _approbation_: no such allowance being anywhere found by such as have been most industrious and concerned in the search thereof. At first it was pretended only that the said Psalms should be sung before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and also before and after sermons; which shows they were not to be intermingled in the public Liturgie. But in some tract of time, as the Puritan faction grew in strength and {461} confidence, they prevailed so far in most places, to thrust the _Te Deum_, the _Benedictus_, the _Magnificat_, and the _Nunc Dimittis_, quite out of the church. But of this more perhaps hereafter, when we shall come to the discovery of the Puritan practices in the times succeeding." J. SANSOM. Oxford. * * * * * THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN THE GREEK CHURCH. (Vol. vii., p. 380.) The cross, X, in the Greek Church, represents the initial of [Greek: Christos], the Messiah, the symbolic affixing of which (sealing) before and after baptism indicates that the name of Christ is imposed on the believer, who takes his new or Christian name at baptism. This mark on the forehead refers to Revelation vii. 3., xiv. 1., xxii. 4. The longer catechism of that church, in answer to the question, "What force has the sign of the cross, used on this and other occasions?" says, "What the _name_ of Jesus Christ crucified is, when pronounced with faith by the motion of the lips, the _very same_ is also the sign of the cross, when made with faith by _the motion of the hand_, or represented in any other way." The authority quoted is Cyril of Jerusalem (_Cat. Lect._ xiii. 36.). In the Western Church the cross, [Symbol: cross], represented the [Greek: stauros] whereon Christ suffered. Both these crosses are now found in the Greek Church; and the Latin form, [Symbol: cross], has at least been used therein nine centuries, for in Goar's _Rituale Graecorum_ may be seen (pp. 114, 115. 126.) the icons of Saints Methodius, Germanus, and Cyrillus, whose vestments are embellished with Latin crosses. The Latin cross is marked on the sacramental bread of the Greek communion,--which bread is also impressed with an abbreviation of the words on Constantine's labarum: "Jesus Christ overcometh." (Eusebius's _Life of Constantine_, lib. i. c. 25.: compare with Goar's _Rituale Graecorum_, p. 117.)