In the time of the plague, freat, or fuch other like contagious times of fickness or difeafes, when none of the Parish or neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the fick in their houses, for fear of the inJection, upon fpecial request of the difeafed, the Minifter may only com municate with him. I The ORDER for the BURIAL of the DEAD. Here is to be noted, that the Office enfuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves. The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corps at the entrance of the Churchyard; and going before it either into the Church, or towards the grave, fhall jay, or fing. AM the refurreétion and the life, faith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dad, yet fhall he live; And whofoever liveth, and believeth in me, thall never die. S. John 11. 25, 26. liveth, and that he thall ftand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my fleth thail I fee God: whom I thall fee for myfelf, and mine eyes, thall behold, and not another. yob 19. 25, 26, 27. WE 7E brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, bleffed be the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. 6. 7. Job 1. 21. I After they are come into the Church fhall be read one or both of the Pfalms following. Lixi, cuftodiam PSAL. 39. SAID, I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue. i will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my fight. I held my tongue and fpake nothing: I kept filence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me. My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus mufing the fire kindled and at the laft I fpake with my tongue; Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou haft made my days as it were a fpan long: and mine age is even as nothing in refpect of thee, and verily every man living is altogether vanity.. For man walketh in a vain fhadow, and difquicteth himself. in vain he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who thall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in thee. Deliver me from all mine of fences: and make me not a re buke unto the foolith. I beca ne dumb, and openc... not my mouth: for it was thy doing." Take thy plague away from me: I am even confumed by means of thy heavy hand. When thou with rebukes doft chailen man for fin, thou makeft his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fret ing a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears confider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a ftranger with thee, and a fojourner. as all my fathers night. As foon as thou fcattereft them, they are even as a fleep: and fade away fuddenly like the grafs. In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we confume away in thy difpleafure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou haft fet our mifdeeds before thee: and our fecret fins in the light of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threefcore years and ten; and though men be fo ftrong, that they come to fourfcore years: yet is their firength then but labour and forrow; fo foon paffeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even there after as a man feareth, fo is thy displeasure. So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wifdom. Turn thee again, O Lord, at the laft: and be gracious unto and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majefty of the Lord our God be upon us: prof per thou the work of our hands upon us. O profper thou our handy work. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning,c. Then fhall follow the Leffen taken out of the fifteenth Chapter of the former Epile of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. r Cor. 15. 20. dead, and become the firftfruits of them that flept. For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift thall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Chrift the firftfruits; afterward they that are Chrift's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when he thall have put down all rule, and all authority and power: For he muft reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The laft enemy that shall be destroyed is death: for he hath put all things under his feet. But when he faith all things are put under him, it is manifeft that he is excep.ed which did put all things u der him. And when all thing thall be fubdued unto him, then thall the fon alfo himfelf be fubject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Elfe what thail they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rife not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? and why fland we in jeopardy every hour? 1 proteft by your rejoicing, which I have in Chrift Jefus our Lord, I die daily. It after the manner of men, I have fought with beatts at Ephefus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rife not? Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteoufnefs, and fin not; for foine have TOW is Chritt rifen from the not not the knowledge of God: I fpeak this to your thame. But fome man will fay. How are the dead ra'fed up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou foweft, thou foweft not that body that thall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat or of fome other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleafed him, and to every feed his own body. All fleth is not the fame fleth: but there is one kind of flesh of men, an other flesh of beafts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are alfo celeftial bodies, and bodies terreftrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terreftrial is another. There is one glory of the fun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the ftars: for one ftar differeth from another ftar in glory. So alfo is the refurrection of the dead. It is fown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: it is fown in dishonour, it is raised in glory: it is fown in weakness, it is raifed in power: it is fown a na. tural body, it is raifed a fpiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a fpiritual body. And to it is written, The first man Adam was made a living foul, the laft Adam was made a quickening fpirit. Howbeit that was not firft which is fpiritual, but that which is natural; and af.crward that which is fpiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the fecond man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, fuch are they that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, fuch are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we thall alfo bear the image of the heavenly. Now this, ifay, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I thew you a myftery; We shall not all fleep, but we thall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the laft trump; When they come to the grave, while the corps is made ready to be laid into the earth, the Priest Shall fay, or the Priest and Clerks fhall fing: MAN that is born of a wo man hath but a fhort time to live, and is full of mifery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower: he fleeth as it were a thadow, and never continueth in one flay. In the midft of life we are in death: of whom may we feek for fuccour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our fine art juftly dif pleafed? Yet, O Lord God moft holy, O Lord moft mighty, O holy and moft merciful Saviour, deli ver us not in o the bitter pains of eternal death. Thou knoweft, Lord, the fecrets of our hearts: thut not thy merciful ears to our prayers; but fpare us, Lord moft holy, O God moft nighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou moft worthy Judge eternal, fuffer us not at our lait hour for any pains of death to fall from thee. Then while the earth fhall be caft ORASMUCH asit hath pleafed mercy mercy to take unto himfelf the foul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground: earth to earth, afhes to ashes, duft to duft, in fure and certain hope of the refurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, who thall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to fubdue all things to himfelf. Then shall be faid or fung, I unto me, Write 1 Then the Prieft fhall fay, Lord, have mercy upon us, Chrift, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. UR Father which art in heaven, we be thy heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our crcfpaffes, as we forgive them that refpafs against us; And lead us ot into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen. Prieft. ALMIGHTY God, with whom gracious goodnefs, fhortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to haften thy kingdom; that we, with all thofe that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect confummation and bliss both in body and foul, in thy eternal and everlafting glory, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The Colle. MERCIFUL God. the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who is the refurrection and the life: in believeth thall live, though he die; and who10ever liveth and believeth in him. thall not die eternally; who alfo hath taught us, by his holy Aro fle Saint Paul, not to be forry. as men without hope, for them that fleep in him; We meekly be feech thee. O Father, 10 raife us from the death of fin unto the life of righteouinefs; that when we thall depart this life, we may reft in him, as our hope is this our brother do h; and that at the genera! refurrection in the laft day, we may be found acceptable in thy tight, and receive that bleffing which thy well beloved Son thall then pronounce to all that ye bleiled children of my Father, love and fear thee. faying, Come receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world Grant this, we befeech thee, O merciful Father, through Jefus Chrift our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. THE grace of our Lord Jefus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowthip of the Holy Ghost, be with us all everinore. Amen. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, The Woman, at the ufual time after her Delivery, fhall come into the Church decently apparelled, and there fhall kneel down in fome convenient place, ai hath been accustomed, or as the Ordinary fhall di re; and then the Priest fhall fay unto her, F ORASMUCH as it hath pleated Almighty God of his goodness to give you fafe deti verance, and hath preferved you in the great danger of Child-birth, you thall therefore give hearty thanks unto God, and fay, Then Then fhall the Priest fay, Dilexi, quoniam. PSAL. 116. AM well pleafed that the Lord hath heard the voice of the my prayer; That he hath inclined his ear un'o me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The fnares of death compaffed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me. I found trouble and lieaviness, and I called upon the Name of the Lord: O Lord, I befeech thee, deliver my foul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preferveth the fimple I was in mifery, and he helped me. Turn again then unto thy reft, O my foul for the Lord hath rewarded thee. And why thou haft deli vered my foul from death: mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord: in the land of the living. I believed, and therefore will I fpeak; but i was fore troubled: I faid in my hafte, Ail men - are liars. What reward thall I give unto the Lord: for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? I will receive the cup of fal vation and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vows YOWS now in the prefence of all his people: in the courts of the Lord's House, even in the midft of thee, O Je rufalem. Praife the Lord. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. ¶ Or, PSAL. 127. Nifi Dominus. XCEPT the Lord build the houfe their labour is but lot that build it. Ex Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain. It is but loft labour that ye hafte to rife up early, and fo late take reft, and eat the bread of carefulnels for fo he giveth his beloved fleep. Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord. Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant: even fo are the young children. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they thall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. Glory be to the Father, &c. Lord, have mercy upon us. OUR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpales, as we forgive them that tretpafs against us; And lead us not into remptation, But deliver us from evil': For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen. Minifler. O Lord, fave this woman thy fervant; Anjeer. Who putteth her truft in thee. Minifler. Be thou to her a ftrong tower; Anwer. From the face of her enemy. Min, Lord, hear our prayer ; Anfwer. And let our cry come unto thee. Miniter. Let us pray. thee humble thanks for that ALMIGHTY God, we give thou haft vouchfafed to deliver this woman thy fervant from the great pain and peril of Childbirth: Grant, we beseech thee, moft merciful Father, that the through thy help may both faithfully live, and walk according to thy will in this life prefent, and alto may be partaker of everlaftin glory in the life to come, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Woman that cometh to give her Thanks, must offer accuflemed Offerings; and if there be a Communion, it is convenient that fhe receive the holy Communion. A COM |