Precepts

(John Cosin in English Spirituality, 263)

1. To observe the Festivals and Holy Days appointed.
2. To keep the Fasting Days with devotion and abstinence.
3. To observe the ecclesiastical customs and ceremonies established, and that without frowardness or contradiction.
4. To repair unto the public service of the Church for Matins and Evensong,
   4a. with other holy offices at times appointed,
   4b. unless there be a just and unfeigned cause to the contrary.
5. To receive the Blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ with frequent devotion,
   5a. and three times a year at least, of which Easter to be always one.
   5b. And for better preparation thereunto, as occasion is, to disburthan and quit your consciences of those sins that may grieve us, or scruples that may trouble us, to a learned and discreet priest, and from him to receive advice, and the benefit of Absolution.