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300 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
served, giving more details, shows that the blessing which
accompanied the manual act was almost exactly that which
is so used in the English service to-day. It was to be
administered by the bishop, or his deputy.
60
We cannot doubt that Matthias introduced this rite
wherever it was possible in his own diocese, and it is in
teresting to know that in this he was in close agreement
with another eminent prelate of the orthodox party, Olof
Laurelius (1585 1670), who was Bishop of Vesteras from
the year 1647, where he continued the good work of Rud-
beckius. Like Matthiae, he attaches the duty of confirming
to the bishop or his official, and that publicly in Church,
and he distinctly says the old term was "
Confirmatio hoc
est fermelse," but now is
"
examination and blessing of
young people (ungdoms proffwen och welsignelse)."
51
The rite consisted of the long
"
Collect
"
and blessing with
laying on of hands, taken directly from the Nova
Ordinantia of 1575, which has been already quoted (Lect.
V., ii).
52
50 "
Sedan skall biskopen eller bans fullmachtige lata barnen
falla pa kna, laggia handerne pa hvart och ett barn, och
therpa saga att the mage altidh bliva och dageligen tillvaxa
uthi tin helga Anda, in till thes the komma uthi titt eviga rijke.
Amen." Ekdahl :
I.e., p. 103.
51
See H. Lundstrom: K. PI. Arsskrift, vol. viii. (1907);
Meddelandett, etc., pp. 279 282, where the form is given.
52
The form is given by H. Lundstrom in K. H. Arsskrift,
viii., pp. 280-1. It is, therefore, remarkable that there is no
reference to such a rite in the printed draft Kyrko-ordningar,
esp. in that ascribed to Laurelius, which is connected with the
work of the Committee of 1650. The seventh chapter Om
Syndaboot, Skriftermdl och Aflossning, part 2, x., speaks of
children or servants being sent eight days before they are ad
mitted to the sacrament to the pastor or his assistant
"
that they
may well and perfectly know whether they are instructed in those
mysteries and strengthened in their faith," K. Ordningar fore
1686, II., i, p. 171. But in a variant form of this K. 0., quoted
by Ekdahl :
I.e., p. 107, the parallel passage runs,
"
They shall
be publicly examined in the choir in the articles of their Christian
faith, and with laying on of hands with prayer they shall be re-
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