To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenelles, though we have rebelled against him: neither have we obeyed the voice. of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he fet before us. Dan. 9. 9, 10. O Lord, correct me, but with adgement left thou bring me to nothing. Jer. 10. 24. Pfal. 6. 1. Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. S Matth. 3. 2. I will arife, and go to my Fa ther, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy fon. S. Luke 15. 18, 19. Enter not into judgement with thy fervant, O Lord; for in thy fight fhall no man living be juftified. Pfal. 143. 2. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourfelves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confefs our fine, God is faithful and juft to forgive us our fins, and to cleanfe us from all unrighteousness. I S. John 1. 8, 9. humble voice, unth the throne of the heavenly grace, faying after me: A general Confeffion to be faid of the whole Congregation, after the Minifter, all kneeling. ful Father, We have erred and ftrayed from thy ways like loft fheep: We have followed too much the devices and defires of our own hearts: We have offended againft thy holy laws: We have left undone thofe things which we ought to have done; And we have done thofe things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable offenders: Spare thou them, O God, which confefs their faults: Reftore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promifes declared unto mankind in Chrift Jefu our Lord. And grant, O moft merciful Father for his fake, That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and fober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen. LMIGHTY and moft merci EARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in fundry places to acknowledge 1 The Abfolution or Remifion of and confefs our manifold fins and wickedness, and that we fhould not diffemble nor cloke them before the face of Almigh fins, to be pronounced by the Prieft alone, flanding, the People fill kneeling. ty God our heavenly Father, but A of our Lord Jefus Chrift, confefs them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart, to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the fame by his infinite goodness and niercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our fins before God, yet ought we moft chiefly fo to do, when we affemble and meet to gether, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to fet forth his moft worthy praife, to hear his mott holy Word, and to afle thofe things which are requifite and neceflary, as well for the body as the foul. Wherefore I pray and befeech you, as many as are here prefent, to accompany me with a pure heart, and who defireth not the death of a finner, but rather that he may turn from his wickednefs and live; and hath given power and commandment to his Minifters, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the Abfolution and Remillion of their fins; He pardoneth and abfolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gofpel. Wherefore let us be fetch him to grant us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit that thofe things may please him, which we do at this prefent, and that the reft of our life hereafter may be pure and holy; fo that at the laft we may come to his eternal joy, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Then Then the Minister fhall kneel, and fay the Lord's Prayer; the People alfo kneeling, and repeating it with him. UR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thý will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpafles, as we forgive them that trefpafs againft us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Then likewife he shall fay, O Lord, open thou our lips: anfw, And our mouth thall fhew forth thy praise. Priest. O God, make speed to fave us. Anfw. O Lord, make hafte to help us. Here all flanding up, the Priest hall fay. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghoft; Anfw. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever thall be: world without end. Amen. Prift. Praife ye the Lord. Anfo. The Lord's Name be praised. Then fhall be faid or fung the Pfalms in order as they are appointed. Then a Lefon of the Old Teftament, as is ap. pointed; and after that Mag nificat, (or the Song of the bleed Virgin Mary) in English, as fol loreth. the Lord, all ye lands fing, reShew yourfelves joyful unto joice, and give thanks. fing to the harp with a pfalm of Praife the Lord upon the harp thanksgiving. With trumpets alfo and fhawins: O fhew yourfelves joyful before the Lord the King. Let the fea make a noife, and all that therein is: the round world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods claps their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord': for he cometh to judge the earth. With righteoufnefs fhall he judge the world: and the people with equity. Glory be to the Father, c. Then a Leffon of the New Teftament, as it is appointed: and after that, Nunc dimittis, (or the Song of Simeon) in English, as followeth. Nunc dimittis. S. Luke 2. 29. fervant depart in peace: according to thy word. For mine eyes have feen: thy falvation, Which thou haft prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people ifrael. Glory be to the Father, c. Deus mifereatur. Pfal. 67. OD merciful unto us, and I belleve in the Holy Ghoft; The holy Catholick Church; he Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of fins; The Refurrection of the body, And the Life everlafting. Amen. And after that, thefe Prayers followving, all devoutly kneeling; the Minifler first pronouneing with a loud voice, The Lord be with you: Anfrv. And with thy fpirit. Minifler. Let us pray. Gbles us and thew us the Then the Minifter, Clerks, and light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us. That thy way may be known upon earth: thy faving health among all nations. Let the people traife thee, O God: yea, let all the people praife thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteoufly, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praife thee, O God: yea, let all the people praife thee. Then tha'l the earth bring forth her increafe and God, even our own God, thall give us his blefling. God thall blefs us and all the ends of the world thall fear him. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Then fhall be faid or fung the Apofiles Creed by the Minifter and the People flanding. I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghoft, Born of the Virgin Mary; Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was cru People, fhall fay the Lord's Prayer with a loud voice. UR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive them that trefpafs against us; us our trefpafles, as we forgive And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen. Then the Prie fanding up, hall fay, O Lord, fhew thy mercy upon Prief. O God, make clean our hearts within us; Anfw. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us. Then fhall follow three Colles the first of the Day; the Jecond for Peace; the third for Aid ggang til Perics, as hereafter followeth which trvo laft Col lets fhall be daily faid at Evening Prayer without alteration. The fecond Colled at Evening Prayer. him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felícity, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for the Royal Family. ALMIGHTY God, the fourAtain of all goodness, we humbly befeech thee to blefs our gracious Queen Charlotte, his Royal Highne is George Prince of Wales, and all the Royal FaGOD, from whom all holy mily Endue them with thy defires, all good counfels, holy Spirit; enrich them with and all juft works do proceed; thy heavenly grace; profper Give unto thy fervants that peace which the world cannot give, that both our hearts may be fet to obey thy commandments, and alfo that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pafs our time in reft and quictnefs, through the merits of Jefus Chrift our Saviour. Amen. The third Colled, for Aid again all Perils. befeech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Jetus Chrift. Amen. them with all nappiness; and bring them to thine everlafting kingdom, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen." 1A Prayer for the Clergy and People. A God, who alone workeft LMIGHTY and everlafting great marvels; Send down upon our Bishops and Curates, and their charge, the healthful Spirit all Congregations committed to of thy grace; and that they may them the continual dew of thy blefling: Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advo cate and Mediator Jefus Chrift. Amen. 1 A Prayer of S. Chryfoftom. LMIGHTY God, who haft In Quires and Places where they ng here followeth the A given us grace at this time fing, Anthem, O with one accord to make our A Prayer for the King's Majefty. LORD our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only ruler of princes, who doft from thy throne behold all the dwell ers upon earth; mot heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our moit gracious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE, and to replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he and wall in thy Way: Endue Tchrift, and the love of God. may incline to thy him plenteously with heavenly gifts, grant him in health and wealth long to live, ftrengthen Jefus and the fellowthip of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer throughout the Year. Upon thefe Feafts; Chriftmas-day, the Epiphany, S. Matthias, WH HOSOEVER will be faved: before all things it is neceffary that he hold the Catholick Faith. Which faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he thall perish everlaftingly. And the Catholick Faith is this: That we worthip one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Perfons: nor dividing the Subftance. For there is one Perfon of the Father, another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghoft. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghot, is all one: the Glory equal, the Majefty co-eternal. Such as the Father is, fuch is the Son and fuch is the Holy, Ghof. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghoft uncreate. The Father incomprehenfible, the Sun incomprehenfible and the Holy Ghoft Incomprehenfible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal and the Holy Ghoft eternal; And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. As alfo there are not three incomprehenfibles, nor three uncreated: but one uncreated, and one incomprehenfible. So likewife the Father is Almi, hry, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghoft Almi shty: And yet they are not three Al mighties: but one Almighty So the Father is God, the Son is God: and the Holy Ghoft is God; And yet they are not three Gods: but one God. So likewife the Father is Lord, the Son Lord and the Holy Choft Lord; And yet not three Lords: but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Chriftian verity to acknowledge every Perfon by himfelf to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion: to fay. There be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none: neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone: not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghoft is of the Father, and of the Son: nei her made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons: one Holy Ghoft, not three Holy Ghofts. And in this Trinty none is afore, or after other: none is greater or lefs than another; But the whole three Perfons are co-eternal together: and coequal. So that in all things, as is aforefaid: the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worthipped. He therefore that will be faved: muft thus think o the Trinity." Furthermore, it is neceflary to everlafting falvation: that he allo believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jefus Chrift. For the right Faith is, That we believe and confefs: that our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son of God is God and man; God of the Subftance of the Fa ther, begotten before the worlds: and Man of the Subitance of his Mother, born in the world. Perfect God, and perfect Man : of a reasonable foul, and hu nan fleth fubfifting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood. Whe 1 |