heavens and all their powers do glorify; sun and moon and all the host of stars; earth and seas, and whatever in them is; Jerusalem the heavenly, the church of the firstborn who are written in heaven; angels, archangels, principalities, dignities, thrones, dominions, the powers supernal, the celestial bands, the cherubim with many eyes, the six-winged seraphim, they who with twain wings veil their faces, with twain their feet, and with twain together flying, with lips never silent, and with speech divine and unceasing, sound forth the hymn of victory, of majesty, of praise,-with triumphant voice praising and saying,

PEOPLE.-HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!

PRIEST, bowing down.-Holy, indeed, art thou, O King eternal, and of all holiness the giver; and holy is thy only-begotten Son, our Lord and God and Saviour Jeshumeshicha; and holy is thy Holy Spirit, who searcheth all things, even the depths of thyself, O God the Father; for thou art holy, who possessest all, the Omnipotent, the Good; and with thy Son, who became a partaker of sufferings, and that for the sake of man thy workmanship, whom thou didst make from the earth, and didst cause to dwell in the blessedness of paradise ; whom, when he had transgressed and had fallen, thou didst not abandon, neither didst thou forsake him, O thou Good; but didst restore him as the Father of tender mercies. Thou calledst him by the law, thou directedst him by the prophets; but, last, to renew thine image, thou didst send into the world thine only-begotten Son, who descended and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit from the holy mother of God,† and always virgin, Ma

* Or, relead.

This epithet, if not a later insertion, shows that the Liturgy could not have been written a great while before the council of Ephesus, A. D. 425.

riam; and conversed among the sons of men, and instituted * whatever pertained to the salvation of our kind.

Rising, he shall take the portion, and say: In the day before that of his passion, he took bread in his holy hands, and lifted up his eyes to thee, O God his Father, the Lord of all, and praised thee, + and blessed, and sanctified, + and brake, and gave to his disciples, saying, Take, eat of this, all of you; for

THIS IS MY BODY. +†

And, placing the eucharist upon the plate, he blesseth and taketh the cup, saying: So likewise after they had supped, he took into his pure hands this cup, and praised thee, and blessed, and sanctified, and gave to his disciples, saying, Take, drink of this, all of you; for this is the cup of my blood of the new covenant, (which is the mystery of the faith for ever,) that for you and for many is shed for the remission of sins. §

PEOPLE.-Amen.

PRIEST. This do in remembrance of me. For whensoever ye shall eat this bread, and the mixture of this cup ye shall drink, ye declare my death, and confess my resurrection, until I come.

PEOPLE.-Thy death, O Lord, will we commemorate. PRIEST. Thus commemorating thy death, O Lord, and thy resurrection the third day from the house of the

* Or, “spoke whatever," &c.

The Jacobite Mss. add, "Which for you and for many is broken and given for the remission of sins and life everlasting."

Jacobite: "So likewise the cup after they had supped, mixing the wine and the water, and giving thanks, he blessed, + and sanctified," &c.

§ Jacobite : "And gave to his disciples and holy apostles, saying, Take, drink of this, all of you: this is my blood of the New Testament, which for you and for many believers is shed for the remission of sins and life everlasting."

dead, and thy ascension into heaven, and thy session at the right hand of God the Father, and thy second coming with terrible power and glory, when thou shalt judge the world in righteousness, and when thou wilt recompense unto every man according to his works, we offer unto thee this sacrifice, awful and unbloody. Not, then, according to our sins deal thou with us, O Lord, nor according to our iniquities reward us; but according to thy great and unutterable mercy towards the sons of men, blot out our sins, and hear the supplication which thy servants, who are thy people and thine inheritance, supplicate of thee, and through thee, and with thee, unto the Father, saying,

PEOPLE. Be merciful, O God, the Father Almighty, be merciful unto us.

PRIEST.-We, thy weak and sinful servants, give thanks to thee, O Lord, and praise thee for all, and on account of all.

PEOPLE. We praise thee, we bless thee, and adore thee; we give thanks unto thee, and pray to thee for pardon. O Lord God, be merciful unto us, and hear

us.

[PRIEST.-We celebrate the memory especially of Mariam, holy, glorious, and ever Virgin, the blessed mother of God.

DEACON.-Remember, O Lord, her pure and holy prayers; and for them spare and be merciful to us, and hear us.]

DEACON.-How awful is this hour! How fearful, my beloved, the time when the Spirit, the Living and Holy One, cometh from the highest heavens, and, descending, hovereth over the eucharist in this sanctuary, to bless and sanctify it! With reverence and fear let us stand and pray.

PRIEST, bowing down and invoking the Holy Spirit.

Have mercy upon us, O God, the Father Almighty, and send upon us, and upon these oblations here set forth, thy Holy Spirit, the Lord and Author of life, who is equal in thy throne with thyself, Aloho Abo, and with thy Son, is equal in thy kingdom, consubstantial and co-eternal, who spake in thy law, and thy prophets, and thy new covenant, who descended in the likeness of a dove on our Lord Jeshumeshicha at the river Jordan, and who descended upon the holy apostles in the likeness of tongues of fire.

Answer me, O Lord!

PEOPLE.-Lord, have mercy!

PRIEST. That, coming down to overspread this mystery, He might make it a living body, + a saving body, a heavenly body, + for our souls and bodies: the body of our Lord God and Saviour Jeshumeshicha, and that they who take it may do it unto the remission of sins and life everlasting.

PRIEST. And this cup [some copies, "the mixture of this cup"] to be the blood of the new covenant, + the salutary [or saving] blood, + the blood that giveth life, the heavenly blood, + the blood all-cleansing for our souls and bodies; the blood of the Lord God, and our Saviour Jeshumeshicha, for remission of sins and life everlasting unto those who receive it.

PEOPLE.-Amen.

PRIEST. That they may be to us, and to all those who receive and participate of them, for the sanctification of our souls and bodies, the bringing forth of good works, and the confirmation of thy holy church whom thou hast founded upon the rock of the faith, that the gates of sheul might not prevail against her; whilst thou deliverest her from all heresies, and from all the scandals of unlawful works, until the consummation of

the world, by the grace, mercies, and compassion towards men of thy only Son; by whom, and with whom, with thyself, be glory and honour.

PEOPLE. Amen.

The deacon exhorts to pray for the church and its rulers.

PRIEST, bowing down.-For this offer we to thee, O Lord, this sacrifice, awful and unbloody, on the behalf of thy holy places which thou hast glorified by the manifestation of the Meshicha thy Son. + More especially for Sion the holy, the mother of all the churches; and for thy holy church in all the world: that thou, O Lord, wouldst confer upon her the rich gifts of thy Holy Spirit. + Remember, Lord, our godly bishops, who have divided unto us rightly the word of truth; and especially our fathers, and our patriarch Mar.........with all the residue of orthodox bishops. Grant to them, O Lord, an honourable old age, and long preserve them to be the pastors of thy people in all piety and holiness. + Remember, O Lord, this presbytery, (valkashishutho hodee,) and those likewise in every place, and the deaconhood in Christ, and the residue of the holy ministry, and of every churchly order. Remember, O Lord, the poverty of me, whom, though unworthy to call upon thee, thou hast made worthy. The sins of my youth and my ignorances remember not; but according to the multitude of thy mercies remember thou me. For wast thou, O Lord, to mark iniquities, O Lord, who could endure before thee? But because that with thee is the propitiation, (chusoyo,) visit thou me and purify me; that, where sin hath abounded, there may thy grace be more abundant. -+ Remember, O Lord, such as are lying in bonds and imprisonment; our brethren who are in exile; the sick, the diseased, and them who by evil spirits are persecuted