| Or this. body as the soul. Wherefore, I may be pure and holy; so that at pray and beseech you, as many as the last we may come to his eterare here present, to accompany me, nal joy, through Jesus Christ our with a pure heart and humblé Lord. voice, unto the throne of the hea- 1 The People shall answer here, and at the end of every Prayer, Amen. venly grace, saying1 A general Confession, to be said by the whole LMIGHTY God, our heaCongregation after the Minister, all kneeling. venly Father, who, of his LMIGHTY and most merci- great mercy, hath promised forgive. ful Father ; We have erred ness of sins to all those who, with and strayed from thy ways like lost hearty repentance and true faith, sheep. We have followed too turn unto him ; have mercy upon much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offend- all your sins, confirm and strength you, pardon and deliver you from ed against thy holy laws. We en you in all goodness, and bring have left undone those things you to everlasting life, through Jewhich we ought to have done ; sus Christ our Lord. Amen. And we have done those things I Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord's which we ought not to have done : Prayer; the People still kneeling, and repeating And there is no health in us. But it with him, both here, and wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service. thou, e Lord, bave mercy upom OUR Father, who art in Hea miserable' offenders. Spare ven, ; thou those, O God, who confess Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be their faults. Restore thou those done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; who are penitent; According to Give us this day our daily bread ; thy promises declared unto man- And forgive us our trespasses, as kind, in Christ Jesus our Lord. we forgive those who trespass And grant, О most merciful Fa- against us; And lead us not into ther, for his sake; That we may temptation; But deliver us from hereafter live a godly, righteous, evil: for thine is the Kingdom, and sober life; To the glory of and the Power, and the Glory, for thy holy name. Amen. ever and ever. Amen. 1 The Declaration of Absolution, or Remission of Then likewise be shall say, Sins; to be made by the Priest alone, standing ; O Lord, open thou our lips ; the People still kneeling. LMIGHTY God, the Fa Ans. And our mouth shall ther of our Lord Jesus Christ, show forth thy praise. who desireth not the death of a I Here, all standing up, the Minister shall say, sinner, but rather that he may turn the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; Glory be to the Father, and to from his wickedness and live, hath Ans. As it was in the begingiven power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pro- world without end. ning, is now, and ever shall be, nounce to his people, being peni Min. Praise ye the Lord. tent, the Absolution and Remission Ans. The Lord's name be of their sins. He pardoneth and praised. absolveth all those who truly re I Then shall be said or sung the following Anthem; pent, and unfeignedly believe his except on those days for which other Anthems are holy Gospel. Wherefore, let us appointed ; and except also, when it is used in the course of the Psalms, on the nineteenth day of beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit ; Venite, exultemus Domino. us that the rest of our life hereafter in the strength of our salvation. the mouth, that those things may please him O COME, let us sing unto the Let us come before his presencel For thou only art holy; thou with thanksgiving, and show our-only art the Lord ; thou only, O selves glad in him with psalms. Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art For the Lord is a great God; most high in the Glory of God the and a great King above all gods." Father. Amen. In his hand are all the corners | Then shall be read the first Lesson, according to of the earth; and the strength of the Table or Calendar; after which shall be said the hills is his also. Nole, That before every Lesson, the Minister shall The sea is his, and he made it; sax Here beginneth such a Chapter, or Verse of such a Chapter, of such a Book : And after every and his hands prepared the dry Lesson, Here endetke the first, or the second Lesson. land. Te Deum laudamus. 10.come, let us worship, and WE praise thee, God; we O fall down, before thee to be Lord our Maker. Lord. For he is the Lord our God ; All the earth doth worship thee, and we are the people of his pas-the Father everlasting. ture, and the sheep of his hand. To thee all Angels cry aloud ; 0 worship the Lord in the the Heavens, and all the Powers beauty of holiness ; let the whole therein. earth stand in awe of him. To thee, Cherubim and SeraFor he cometh, for he cometh phim continually do cry, to judge the earth; and with righ- Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God teousness to judge the world, and of Sabaoth. the people with his truth. Heaven and Earth are full of 1 Then shall follow a Portion of the Psalms, as the Majesty of thy Glory. they are appointed, or one of the Selections of The glorious company of the Psalms set forth by this Church : and at the end of every Psalm, and likewise at the end of the Apostles praise thee. Venite, Benedicite, Jubilate, Benedictus, Cantate The goodly fellowship of the Domino, Bonum est confleri, Deus misereatur, Benedic' Anima mea--MAY be said or sung the Prophets praise thee. Gloria Patri ; and at the end of the whole Por The noble army of Martyrs tion, or Selection of Psalms for the day, SHALL be said or sung the Gloria Patri, or else the Glo- praise thee. ria in Excelsis, as followeth : The holy Church, throughout all Gloria in Excelsis. the world, doth acknowledge thee, LORY be to God on high, The Father, of an infinite Ma and on earth peace, good will jesty; towards men. We praise thee, Thine adorable, true, and only we bless thee, we worship thee, Son ; we glorify thee, we give thanks to Also the Holy Ghost, the Comthee for thy great glory, O Lord forter. God, heavenly King, God the Fa- Thou art the King of Glory, O ther Almighty. Christ. O Lord, the only begotten Son, Thou art the everlasting Son of Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb the Father. of God, Son of the Father, that When thou tookest upon thee takest away the sins of the world, to deliver man, thou didst humble have mercy upon us. Thou that thyself to be born of a Virgin. takest away the sins of the world, When thou hadst overcome the have mercy upon us. Thou that sharpness of death, thou didst open takest away the sins of the world, the kingdom of heaven to all bereceive our prayer. Thou that sit- lievers. test at the right hand of God the Thou sittest at the right hand Father, have mercy upon us. lof God, in the Glory of the Father. GLO for ever. We believe that thou shalt come, O ye Fire and Heat, bless ye to be our Judge. the Lord; praise him, and magWe therefore pray thee, help nify him for ever. thy servants, whom thou hast re- o ye Winter and Summer, bless deemed with thy precious blood. ye the Lord; praise him, and Make them to be numbered magnify him for ever. with thy saints, in glory everlasting: Oye Dews and Frosts, bless ye O Lord, save thy people, and the Lord ; praise him, and mag 1 bless thine heritage. nify him for ever. Govern them, and lift them up O ye Frost and Cold, bless ye the Lord; praise him, and mag Day by day we magnify thee; nify him for ever. And we worship thy name O ye Ice and Snow, bless ye ever, world without end. the Lord; praise him, and mag Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us nify him for ever. this day without sin. O ye Nights and Days, bless ye O Lord, have mercy upon us, the Lord; praise him, and maghave mercy upon us. nify him for ever. O Lord, let thy mercy be upon O ye Light and Darkness, bless us, as our trust is in thee. ye the Lord; praise him, and O Lord, in thee have I trusted ; magnify him for ever. I let me never be confounded. O ye Lightnings and Clouds, [ Or this Canticle. bless ye the Lord; praise him, Benedicite, omnia opera Domini. and magnify him for ever. O ALL ye Works of the Lord, O let the Earth bless the Lord ; bless ye the Lord; praise yea, let it praise him, and magnihim, and magnify him for ever. Ify him for ever. O ye Angels of the Lord, bless Oye Mountains and Hills, bless ye the Lord; praise him, and ye the Lord; praise him, and magnify him for ever. magnify him for ever. O ye Heavens, bless ye the O all ye green Things upon Lord; praise him, and magnify Earth, bless ye the Lord; praise him for ever. him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Waters that be above the O ye Wells, bless ye the Lord; Firmament, bless ye the Lord ; praise him, and magnify him for praise him, and magnify him forever. ever. O ye Seas and Floods, bless ye O all ye Powers of the Lord, the Lord ; praise him, and magbless ye the Lord ; praise him, nify him for ever. and magnify him for ever. O ye Whales, and all that move Oye Sun and Moon, bless ye in the Waters, bless ye the Lord ; the Lord; praise him, and mag- praise him, and magnify him for ; nify him for ever. Oye Stars of Heaven, bless ye O all ye Fowls of the Air, bless the Lord; praise him, and mag- ye the Lord; praise him, and nify him for ever. magnify him for ever. O ye Showers and Dew, bless O all ye Beasts and Cattle, ye the Lord; praise him, and bless ye the Lord; praise him, and magnify him for ever. magnify him for ever. O ye Winds of God, bless ye O ye Children of Men, bless ye the Lord ; praise him, and magni- the Lord; praise him, and magfy him for ever. nify him for ever. ever. Oye Priests of the Lord, bless I BELIEVE in God the Father Or this. O let Israel bless the Lord ; went into the place of departed Spirits, which are considered as words of the same meaning in the praise him, and magnify him for Creed. ever. Almighty, Maker of Heaven ye the Lord; praise him, and and Earth : magnify him for ever. . And in Jesus Christ his only O ye Servants of the Lord, bless Son our Lord; Who was conye the Lord ; 'praise him, and ceived by the Holy Ghost, Born magnify him for ever. of the Virgin Mary, Suffered unOye Spirits and Souls of the der Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, Righteous, bless ye the Lord; praise dead, and buried, He descended hin, and magnify him for ever. into Hell; The third day he rose O ye holy and humble Men of from the dead ; He ascended into heart, bless ye the Lord; praise Heaven, And sitteth on the right him, and magnify him for ever. hand of God the Father Almigh11 Then shall be read, in like manner: the second ty ; From thence he shall come to Lesson, taken out of the New Testament, according to the Table or Calendar; and after that, the judge the quick and the dead. following Psalm. I believe in the Holy Ghost : The Holy Catholic Church ; The lands ; serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his pre- tion of the body, and the life ever giveness of sins; The resurrecsence with a song. lasting. Amen. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God, it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves ; we are his I BELIEVE in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of people and the sheep of his pasture. Heaven and Earth, and of all O go your way into his gates things visible and invisible : with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise ; be thankful the only begotten Son of God, be And in one Lord Jesus Christ, unto him, and speak good of his gotten of his Father before all For the Lord is gracious, his Light, very God of very God, be worlds; God of God, Light of mercy is everlasting; and his truth gotten, not made, being of one subendureth from generation to gene- stance with the Father, by whom ration. all things were made ; who for us Benedictus. St. Luke i. 68. men, and for our salvation, came LESSED be the Lord God down from Heaven, and was in of Israel; for he hath visited carnate by the Holy Ghost of the and redeemed his people ; Virgin Mary, and was made man, And hath raised up a mighty and was crucified also for us unsalvation for us, in the house of der Pontius Pilate. He suffered his servant David ; and was buried, and the third day As he spake by the mouth of his he rose again, according to the holy Prophets, which have been Scriptures, and ascended into Heasince the world began; ven, and sitteth on the right hand That we should be saved from of the Father; and he shall come our enemies, and from the hand again, with glory, to judge both of all that hate us. the quick and the dead ; whose 1 Then shall be said the Apostles' Creed, by the kingdom shall have no end. Minister and the People, standing : And any And I believe in the Holy Ghost, Churches may omit the words, He descended into Hell, or inay, instead of them, use the words, He the Lord and giver of life, who name. Or this Hymn. proceedeth from the Father and upon earth ; most heartily we bethe Son; who with the Father and seech thee, with thy favour to bethe Son together is worshipped hold and bless thy servant, The and glorified, who spake by the President of the United States, and prophets. And I believe one all others in authority; and so reCatholic and Apostolic Church. I plenish them with the grace of thy acknowledge one Baptism for the holy Spirit, that they may always remission of sins; and I look for incline to thy will, and walk in thy the resurrection of the dead, and way: Endue them plenteously the life of the world to come. Ámen. with heavenly gifts; grant them in voully kneeling ; the Minister first pronouncing, and finally, after this life, to attain And after that, these Prayers following, all de-health and prosperity long to live; The Lord be with you ; Ans. And with thy Spirit. everlasting joy and felicity, through 1 Min. Let us pray. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us; 1 The following Prayers are to be omitted here, Ans. And grant us thy salvation. T A Prayer for the Clergy and People. Min. O God, make clean our ALMIGHTY and everlasting hearts within us; God, from Ans. And take not thy Holy every good and perfect gift, send Spirit from us. down upon our Bishops and other i Then shall follow the Collect for the day, except Clergy, and upon the Congregawhen the Communion Service is read; and then tions committed to their charge, the Collect for the day shall be omitted here. 1 A Collect for Peace. the healthful spirit of thy grace; o GOD, who art the author of and, that they may truly please peace and lover of concord, thee, pour upon them the conin knowledge of whom standeth tinual dew of thy blessing : Grant our eternal life, whose service is this, O Lord, for the honour of perfect freedom ; defend us, thy our Advocate and Mediator Jesus humble servants, in all assaults of Christ. Amen. our enemies; that we, surely trust- 1 A Prayer for all Conditions of Men. when the Litany is read. ing vertby defence may not feather O Goibthe Creator and Pre O server of , the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. humbly beseech thee for all sorts Amen. and conditions of men, that thou T A Collect for Grace. wouldest be pleased to make thy LORD, our heavenly Fa ther, Almighty and everlast-ving health unto all nations. More ing God, who hast safely brought us especially we pray for thy holy to the beginning of this day ; de Church universal ; that it may be ; fend us in the same with thy mighty so guided and governed by thy power, and grant that this day we good Spirit, that all who profess fall into no sin, neither run into any and call themselves Christians, kind of danger ; but that all our may be led into the way of truth, , doings, being ordered by thy go- and hold the faith in unity of Spivernance, may be righteous in thy rit, in the bond of peace, and in sight, through Jesus Christ our righteousness of life. Finally, we Lord. Amen. commend to thy Fatherly good1 A Prayer for the President of the United States, and all in Civil Authority. pess, all those who are any ways LORD, our heavenly Father, afflicted or distressed in mind, the high and mighty Ruler body, or estate; that it may please of the universe, who dost from thee to comfort and relieve them, thy throne behold all the dwellers according to their several neces |
