d as quotations therefrom. _O Son of David_ was
substituted for _Fili Dei vivi_, in making the translation. There is
not sufficient ground for supposing that it was done by accident. In
the appeal for a merciful hearing, it is right to ground it first upon
His Human Nature as Son of Man, and then upon His Divine Nature as
Christ, and Lord.

Section iv. The pressing anxieties of the moment.

The _Collect of Complete Confidence_, with its Verse and Respond, is
placed here to strike the keynote of the Section: and the Section is
filled up from the Occasional Prayers, or from the Collects after the
Communion Service.

This is obviously the place where other prayers may be introduced, when
urgent needs require them.

The _Verse and Respond_: Psalm xxxiii. 22. The first half of the
Collect was formerly a complete prayer, separated from the other half,
in the Litany of 1544, by _O God whose nature_, &c., the prayer _for
{173} Clergy and People_, and another prayer. The Verse contains the
thought of the first half, the Respond has the thought of the second
half.

Since the special prayers which are used in this Section are only
occasional, and rarely more than one or two at a time, they were all
placed (1662) in a chapter by themselves, after the end of the Litany.

Section v. _The final commendation of our prayers to Christ, who makes
them acceptable_: See Morning and Evening Prayer.

[1] Lightfoot, _Apost. Fathers_, Pt. II. vol. 1. p. 446.

[2] This date is variously stated. Hotham in _Dict. Chr. Ant._ vol.
11. says 477; Scudamore in the same vol. 452; Hooker 'about 450';
Burbidge 450; Maclear (S.P.C.K.) and Prayer Book Interleaved 460;
Proctor 'about 460'; Daniel, J. H. Blunt, and Barry 467. The dates
_known_ of Mamertus are between 463 and 474. (Professor Collins tells
me no others are known.)

[3] In some Churches this day was the Festival of Augustine, Bp of
Hippo. The Calendar of Le Bec, however, sets it down to our Augustine,
as our own Calendar does. I do not know whether this agreement between
them was after, or before, that famous Abbey sent us Lanfranc and
Anselm to be successors of Augustine at Canterbury.

[4] Fald-stool. Faudestola (whence French, fauteuil) is said by
Martene to be adopted into Latin; and by Brachet is traced to a German
origin, Falt-stuol. The idea of these derivations is, that the
Prie-dieu, or kneeling-desk, was able to fold up and be made, perhaps,
a chair. B