of his having made and subscribed the same before him ; and also that the said A B did read in his parish church aforesaid, publiclv and solemnly, the morning and even- ing prayer, according to the form prescribed in and by the book intituled the Book of Com inn a Prayer and Adminis- tration of the Sacraments, and other Bites and Ceremonies of the Church, accord inq to the Use. of the Church of Eng- land ; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, printed as thai are to be sung or said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bish- ops, Priests, and Deacons; and that immediately after leading the evening service, the said A B did openly and publicly, before thecongregation there assembled, declare
is unfeigned assent and consent to all things therein prescribed, in these words, viz. 'I. declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and ev
A B, do
erything contained and prescribed in and by the book in- tituled the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church ; according to the Use of the Church <f England, to- gether with the Psalter or Psalms of David, printed as theg are to be sung or said in Churches, and the Form and Man- ner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.' And these things we promise to testify upon our corporal oaths, if at any time we should be duly called upon so to do. In witness whereof we have here- unto set our hands, the day and year first above written." — Eadie, Eccles. Cyclop, s. v.
Reading, John, an English theologian, was born in 1588, in the county of Buckingham. He was curate at Dover, and afterwards chaplain of Charles I, but he manifested so much zeal in defending the cause of the king that in 1042 he was cast into prison, where he re- mained seventeen months. Archbishop Laud having conferred upon him, during his detention at the Tower, the parish of Chatham and a prebend at Canterbury, the king wotdd not allow him to take possession of either of these benefices; and he even had a new imprisonment to undergo. When in 1GG0 Charles II landed at Dover, it was Reading who was first congratulated, upon his retnrn, on the renown of the city. We have several religious works written by Reading, among others, A Guide to the Holy City (Oxford, 1651, 4to):— An Anti- dote to Anabaptism (1G54, 4to); also several sermons, Reading died Oct. 26, 1667, at Chatham, Kent. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
Reading, William, an Anglican divine, flour- ished in the early opening of last century as keeper of the Library of Sion College, London. He prepared an edition of the early ecclesiastical historians (Eusebius, etc.) in Greek and Latin, with notes (Cantab. 1720, 3 vols.). He also wrote, Sermons (1714, 8vo): — Hist, of Jesus Christ (Lond. 1716, 12mo; 1851, 32mo; 1852, 32mo) : — Sermons — Mortification, Holiness, etc. (1724, 8vo): — Bibliothecos Cleri Londinensis in Collefjio Siu- nesi Catalogus Duplici Forma concinncttus (1724, fol.) : — Sermons Preached out of the First Lessons of Every Sunday in the Year, u-ith an Appendix of Six Sermons (4 vols. 8vo— i, ii, 1728 ; iii, iv, 1730 ; 1755. 4 vols. 8vo) ; very rare; commended by D'Oyle and Maret in their Commentary on the Bible: — Sermons (1731, 8vo) : — Tracts on Government (1739, 8vo).
Readings, Various. See Various Readings.
Reai'a (1 Chron. v, 5). See Reaiah.
Reai'ah (Heb. Reayah', •"^X*, seen of Jehovah), the name of three Hebrews.
1. (Sept. 'Pacta v. r. 'Paid.) A " son" of Shobal son of Judah (1 Chron. iv, 2). B.C. post 1658. He is ap- parently designated by the epithet Haroeh (ftX^n, ha-Roeh, the seer; Sept. 'Apacr, Vulg. qui videbat; evi- dently a mere corruption of Reaiah). See Shobal.
2. (Sept. 'Ptjx«-) Tne son of Mieah and father of Baal, apparently phylarchs of the tribe of Reuben not long before the invasion of Tiglath-Pilescr (1 Chron. v, 5, A. V. " Reaia"). B.C. ante 720.
3. (Sept. 'Paid v. r. 'Paa'id, etc.) One of the Nethi-
nim whose posterity returned from Babylon with Zerub- babel (Ezra ii, 47 ; Neh. vii, 50). B.C." ante 536.
Real Presence, in the eucharist, is a doctrine forming an article in the belief of the Roman, the Greek, and other Eastern churches, and of some bodies or indi- viduals in other Christian communions. Those who es- pouse the real presence in the eucharist hold that, under the appearance of the eucharistic bread and wine, after consecration by the minister, Christ himself is really and substantially present, body and blood, soul and divinity. The word really is used in opposition to " figuratively;" and the decree of the Council of Trent, which is the au- thoritative expositor of the Roman Catholic belief, con- joins with that word the terms "truly" and "substan- tially," the former being used in order to exclude the notion of a barely typical representation, such as is rec- ognisable in the Paschal Lamb and the other Messianic types of the old law; and the latter for the purpose of meeting the view ascribed to Calvin, that Christ, as ap- prehended by the faith of the believer, was, for such be- liever, rendered virtually present in the eucharist, and that his body and blood were received in virtue and effi- cacy, although not in corporal substance. See Lord's Supper.