est . . may pronounce.
( _commandment_ . . must "

( _Absolution_ . . . . . . . . unloosing.
( _Remission_ . . . . . . . . putting away.

( _pardoneth_ . . . . . . . . (Fr. _pardonner_) God forgiveth.
( _absolveth_ . . . . . . . . (Lat. _absolvo_) God looseth the
sinner.

( _repent_ . . . . . . . . . . looking at Self.
( _believe_ . . . . . . . . . " " God.

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( _pure_ . . . . . . . . . . . absence of evil.
( _holy_ . . . . . . . . . . . presence of good.

( _repentance_ . . . . . that our present lives may
( please God.
( _God's Holy Spirit_ " our remaining lives
( may please Him.

It will be clear that if we keep from sin repentance is more intimately
connected with our present lives than with the future. Yet both
repentance and the gift of the Holy Spirit are required for life now
and hereafter.

[1] S. Basil, _ad Clerum Neoc. Ep._ 63, Tom. 2, 843 D, quoted by
Wheatley, says that "the primitive Christians in all Churches,
immediately upon their entering into the House of Prayer, made a
confession of their sins to God with much sorrow and concern and tears,
every man pronouncing his own confession with his own mouth."

So Ezra (ix. 5, 6, &c.) and Daniel (ix. 1-19) approached God with
Confession.

[2] The Pie. Three explanations are offered of this word. (1)
_pi_=the first letter of the word _pinax_ _a chart_, i.e. the Table of
Lessons, &c. (2) Pie,--as in magpie, piebald,--from the two colours of
the page. (3) Litera picata--the pitch-coloured letter--which began
each several order in the rules.

The title of the Sarum Breviary makes Pie equivalent to Breviary or
Portiforium. The most attractive derivation is that which associates
it with the Greek word for a chart or map.

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CHAPTER V.

PRAISE.

I. The Psalms.

Every part of the Praise portion of the Service has a
Praise-Termination. We have already seen that the "intention" of the
Lord's Prayer is marked for praise by a Termination, viz. _for thine is
the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever_.

This praise-termination belongs to the Lord's Prayer, and is not used
for anything else. In like manner, other forms of praise have their
own terminations. Thus Psalms and Lessons are used for praise and have
praise-termination