e apt and
meet, for their learning and godly conversation, to exercise their
ministry duly, to the honour of God, and the edifying of his Church.

[_The Presbyter_] _shall answer_,

I have enquired of them, and also examined them; and think them so
to be.

_Then the Bishop shall say unto the people_:

Good people, these are they whom we purpose, God willing, to
receive this day unto the holy office of Priesthood: For after
due examination we find not to the contrary, but that they be
lawfully called to their function and ministry, and that they be
persons meet for the same. But yet if there be any of you, who
knoweth any impediment or notable crime in any of them, for the
which he ought not to be received into this holy ministry; Let
him come forth in the Name of God, and shew what the crime or
impediment is.

_And if any great crime or impediment be objected, the Bishop shall
surcease from ordering that person, until such time as the party
accused shall be found clear of that crime_.

_Then the Bishop_ (_commending such as shall be found meet to be
ordered to the prayers of the Congregation_) _shall, with the
Clergy and people present, sing or say the Litany, with the Prayers,
as is before appointed in the Form of Ordering Deacons; save only,
that, in the proper Suffrage there added, the word_ Deacons _shall
be omitted, and the word_ Priests _inserted instead of it_.

_Then shall be sung or said the Service for the Communion, with the
Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, as followeth_.

THE COLLECT.

Almighty God, giver of all good things, who by thy Holy Spirit
hast appointed divers Orders of Ministers in thy Church: Mercifully
behold these thy servants now called to the office of Priesthood;
and replenish them so with the truth of thy doctrine, and adorn
them with innocency of life, that, both by word and good example,
they may faithfully serve thee in this office, to the glory of thy
Name, and the edification of thy Church; through the merits of our
Saviour Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the
Holy Ghost, world without end. _Amen_.

THE EPISTLE. Ephes. iv. 7.

Unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of
the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high,
he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he
ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the
lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that
ascend