even for special occasions, but they should be very brief. It is not necessary to pray everywhere in the same manner with the prescribed words, where one can otherwise rightly invoke the commandments, the pastoral epistles, and the gospel in Danish, which can be read in Danish in the books [listed above]. Prefaces should never be sung alone, especially not in Latin and in the merchant cities, notably on holy days.

lecter, Oc saa om høgtilige dage, men de skulle wære gandske korte, det giøres intet behoff, at bede alle steds wdy liige maade med forschreffne ord, der som mand ellers ret paakalder Gud. Epistelen oc Euangelium kand huer lesse paa Danske aff andre Bøger, Præfatien skulle de icke siunge wden noger tiide alleeniste, meest wdy Kiøbstederne oc det paa latine, besønderlig høgtilige dage.