Sovereign and his kingdoms; be led into the way of truth, and that all things may be fo ordered hold the faith in unity of spirit, and fettled by their endeavours, in the bond of peace, and in upon the best and fureft founda- righteoufnefs of lite. Finally, tions, that peace and happinets, we commend to thy fatherly truth and juftice, religion and goodness, all thofe who are any piety, may be eftablished among ways afflicted or diftreffed in us for all generations. Thele mind, body," or and all other neceflaries for eftate, (efpecial when any defire *This to be faid them, for us, and thy whole ly thofe for whom the Prayers of the Church, we humbly beg in the our prayers are Congrégation. Name and Mediation of Jefus defired: that it Christ our moft bleffed Lord and may pleafe thee to comfort and relieve them according to their feveral neceflities, giving them patience under their fufferings, and a happy lifue out of all their afflictions: And this we beg for Jefus Chrift his fake. Amen. Saviour. Amen. A Colled or Prayer for all Conditions of Men, to be used at fuch times when the Litany is not appointed to be faid. GOD, the Creator and Preferver of all mankind, we humbly befeech thee for all forts and conditions of men, that thou wouldeft be pleafed to make thy ways known unto them, thy faving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for the gcod eftate of the Catholick Church; that it may be fo guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profefs and all themfelves Chriftians, may 4 Prayer that may be faid after perty is ever to have mercy and to forgive, receive our. humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our fins, yet let the pi tfulness of thy great mercy loofe us, for the honour of Jefus Chrift our Mediator and Advo cate. Amen. THANKSGIVING S. our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy fervice, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteoufnefs all cur days, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghoit, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. ¶ For Rain. 4 General Thanksgiving, thankful, and that we may thew A mercies, we thine unworthy Α LMIGHTY God, Father of all forth thy praife, not only with (ervants do give thee mot humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodncfs and lovingkindnels to us and to all men: [particularly to This to be those who defire faid when a ny that have 20 to offer up been prayed for, their praifes and defire to return thanksgivings for praije. thy Tate mercies vouchfafed unto them.] We bless thee for our creation, prefervation, and all the bleffings of this life; but above all, for thine ineftiinable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jefus Chrift; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And we be feech thee, give us that due fenfe of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly GOD our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence doft caufe the former and the latter rain to defcend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the ufe of man: We give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our great neceflity to fend us at the lait a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refreth it when it was dry, to the great comfort of us thy unworthy, fervants fervants, and to the glory of thy holy Name, through thy mercies in Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For Fair Weather. LORD God, who haft a violent and unruly people: We blefs thy holy Name, that it hath pleafed thee to appeafe the fedi tious tumults which have been lately raifed up amongft us: moft humbly beleeching thee to gediently walk juftly grant to all of us grace, that we humbled us by thy late may henceforth obediently walk plague of immoderate rain and in thy holy commandmenis, and waters, and in thy mercy haft leading a quiet and peaceable relieved and comforted our fouls life in all godliness and honefty, by this feasonable and bleffed may continually offer unto thee change of weather; We praife our facrifice of praife and thanksand glorify thy holy Name for giving for thefe thy mercies tothis thy mercy, and will alwards us, through Jetus Christ: ways declare thy lovingkindnefs our Lord, Amen. from generation to generation, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, who art O 1 For refloring publick Peace at Home... ETERNAL God our heavenly Father, who alone makeft men to be of one mind in a house, and filleft the outrage of T For Deliverance from the Plague, or other common Sicknefs. LORD God, who haft wounded us for our and fumed us for our tranfgreffions by thy late heavy and dreadful of judgement remembering mervifitation, and now in the midft y, haft redeemed our fouls from the jaws of death; We offer unfelves, our fouls and bodics, to thy fatherly goodness ourwhich thou haft delivered, to be a living facrifice unto thee, always praifing and magnifying thy mercies in the midft of thy Church, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen, ¶ Or this: before thee, O molt merhumbly acknowledge ciful Father, that all the punithments which are threatened in thy law, might juftiy have fallen upon us by reafon of our manifold tranfgreflions and hardnets of heart. Yet feeing it hath pleafed thee of thy tender mercy, upon our weak and unworthy humiliation, to afwage the contagious ficknefs, wherewith we lately have been fore afflicted, and to reftore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings; We offer unto thy Divine Majefty the facrifice of praife and thankf giving; lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for fuch thy prefervation and providence over us, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The To be ufed throughout the Year. Note, That the Collect appointed for every Sunday, or for any Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve, fhall be faid at the Evening Service next before. The first Sunday in Advent. The Colled. LMIGHTY God, give us ALMte we may caft away and ever. Amen. The Epistle. Rom. 13. 8. WE no man any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulalled the law. For this, Thou thalt not commit adultery, Thou thalt not kill, Thou thalt not fteal, Thou thalt not bear falfe witnefs, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this faying, namely, Thou thalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of fleep; for now is our (alvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far fpent, the day is at hand: let us therefore caft off the works of darknets, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honettly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkennefs, not in chambering and wantonnefs, not in ftrire and envying: But put ye on the Lord Jefus Chrift, and make not provifion for the flesh, to fulfil the lufts thereof. The Gospel. S. Matth. 21. I. WHEN they drew nigh un to Jerufalem, and were come to Bethphage unto the mount of Olives, then fent Jefus two difciples, faying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and ftraightway ye thall find an afs tied, and a culc with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man fay ought unto you ye thall fay, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he wil fend them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, faying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and fitting upon an afs, and a colt the foal of an afs. And the difciples went, and did as Jefus commanded them; and brought the afs and the colt, and pur on them their clothes, and they fet him thereon. And a very great multitude fpread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, faying, Hofanna to the Son of David: Blefled is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord; Hofanna in the higheft. And when he was come into Jerufalem all the city was moved, faying, Who is this? And the multitude faid, This is Jefus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and caft out all them that fold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the feats of them that fold doves, and faid unto them, It is written, My houfe thall be called the houfe of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. The The fecond Sunday in Advent. The Colled. LESSED Lord, who haft cauf Bed all holy Scriptures to be The Epiftle. Rom. 15. 4. W written aforetime were I written for our learning; that we through patience and comfort of the fcriptures might have hope. Now the God of patience and confolation grant you to be like minded one towards ano ther, according to Chrift Jefus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Wherefore receive ye one another, as Chrift alfo received us to the glory of God. Now I fay, that Jefus Chrift was a minitter of the circumcifion, for the truth of God, to confirm the promifes made unto the fathers: And that the Gentiles Emight glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this caufe I will confe's to thee among the Gentiles, and fing unto thy Name. And again he faith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people; And again, Praife the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laud him all ye people. And again Efaias faith, There thail be a root of Jeffe, and he that thaill rife to reign over the Gen. tiles, in him thall the Gentiles truft. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghoft, waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after thole things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven tha'l be thaken. And then thall they fee the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when thefe things begin to come to pafs, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. And he fpake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; when they now fhoot. forth, ye fee and know of your own felves that fummer is now nigh at hand: fo likewife ye, when ye fee thefe things coine to pais, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I fay unto you, This generation thall not pafs away, till all be fulfilled: heaven and earth fhall pafs away, but my words thall not país away. The third Sunday in Advent. LORD Jefu Chrift, who at thy firft coming didit fend thy meffenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the Ministers and Stewards of thy myfteries, may likewife fo prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the dif obedient to the wifdom of the juft; that at thy fecond coming to judge the world, we may be found an acceptable people in thy fight, who live and reign it with the Father, and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. The Epifle. 1 Cor. 4. 1. Las of the minifters of Chrift, and ftewards of he myfteries of God. Moreover it is required in ftewards that a man be found faithful. But with me it is a very fmall thing, that I thould be judged of you, or of man's judgement: yea, I judge not mine own felf, for I know nothing by myfelf: yet am I not hereby juftified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the ET a man fo account of us, time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hid den things of darkness, and will make manifeft the counfels of the hearts: and then fhall every man have praife of God. The Gospel. S. Matth. 11. 2. Nin the prifon the works of OW when John had heard Chrift, he fent two of his dici ples, and faid unto him, Art thou he that thould come, or do we look for another? Jefus anfwered and faid unto them, Go and thew John again thofe things which ye do hear and fee: The blind receive their fight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleanf ed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raifed up, and the poor have the gofpel preached to them: And blefied is he whofoever thall not be offended in me. And as they departed Jefus began to fay unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wildernefs to fee? A reed thaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to fee? A man clothed in foft raiment? Be hold, they that wear foft cloth ing are in kings' houses. But what went ye out for to fee? A prophet: yea, I fay unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I fend my mefle.ger before thy face, which thall prepare thy way before thee. The fourth Sunday in Advent. LOR D, raile up (we pray thee) thy power, and come among us, and with great might fuccour us; that where sthrough our fins and wickednefs, we are fore let and hindered in running the race that is fet before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us, through the fatisfaction of thy Son our Lord; to whom with thee and the Holy Ghoft be honour and glory, world without end. Amen. The Fpifle. Phil. 4. 4. EJOICE in the Lord alway; Rand again I fay, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thankf giving let your requens be made known unto God. And the peace of God which palleth all under minds through Christ Jefus. ftanding fhall keep your hearts and The Gofpel. S. John 1. 19. HIS is the record of John; when the Jews fent pricfts and Levites from Jerufalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confefled, and denied not; but confefled, I am not the Chrift. And they afked him, What then? art thou Elias? and he faith, I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No. Then faid they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an aniwer to them that fent us: What fayeft thou of thyfelf? He faid, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ftraight the way of the Lord, as faid the prophet Efaias. And they which were fent were of the Pharifees. And they asked him, and faid unto him, why baptizeit thou then, if thou be not that Chrift, nor Elias, nei. ther that Prophet? John an fwered them, faying, 1 baptize with water: but there ftandeth one among you, whom ye know not: He it is, who, coming at ter me, is preferred before me; whofe thoes' latchet I am not worthy to unloofe. These things were done in Bethabara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptiz ing. The Nativity of our Lord, or the birth day of CHRIST, commonly called Christmas-day. The Colled. A given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit, through the fame LMIGHTY God, who haft Our Lord Jefus Chrift, whe liveth and reigneth with thee and |