THE BOOK OF

COMMON PRAYER,

AND ADMINISTRATION OF COL.COLL.
THE SACRAMENTSRARY.

N. YORK

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF

The Protestant Episcopal Church

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

TOGETHER WITH THE

PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID.

NEW-YORK:
NEW-YORK BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY,

COOPER UNION, FOURTH AVENUE.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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1. HE Ratification of the Book of Common Prayer.

2. The Preface.

3. The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read.

4. The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read.

5. Tables of Lessons of Holy Scripture, to be read at Morning and Evening

Prayer throughout the Year.

6. The Calendar.

7. Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts, together with

the Days of Fasting and Abstinence throughout the Year.

8. Tables for finding the Holydays.

9. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer.

10. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer.

11. The Litany.

12. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions, to be used before the

two final prayers of Morning and Evening Service.

13. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used throughout the Year.

14. The Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion.

15. The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, to be used in the Church.

16. The Ministration of Private Baptism of Children, in Houses.

17. The Ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years, and able to

answer for themselves.

18. A Catechism; that is to say, an Instruction to be learned by every Person

before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop.

19. The Order of Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands upon those that are

baptized, and come to years of Discretion.

20. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.

21. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick.

22. The Communion of the Sick.

23. The Order for the Burial of the Dead.

24. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called, The

Churching of Women.

23. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.

26. A Form of Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners.

27. A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the

earth, and all the other Blessings of his merciful Providence.

28. Forms of Prayer to be used in Families.

29. Selections of Psalms, to be used instead of the Psalms for the Day, at the

discretion of the Minister.

30. The Psalter, or Psalms of David.

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