diligent in them, that the increase and so endue him with thy holy coming thereby may be manifest Spirit, that he preaching thy word, unto all men; for by so doing thou may not only be earnest to reprove, shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee. Be to the flock of CHRIST a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcasts, seek the lost. Be so merciful, that you be not too remiss; so minister discipline, that you forget not mercy; that when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you may receive the never-fading crown of glory, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. Then the Presiding Bishop shall proceed in the municate. beseech, and rebuke with all patience and doctrine; but also may be to such as believe, a wholesome example in word, in conversation, in love, in faith, in chastity, and in purity; that faithfully fulfilling his course, at the latter day he may receive the crown of righteousness laid up by the LORD, the righteous Judge, who liveth and reigneth one GOD with the FATHER and the HOLY GHOST, world without end. Amen. THE peace of GOD, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of GOD, and of his Son JESUS CHRIST our Lord: And the blessing of GOD ALMIGHTY, the FATHER, MOST merciful Father, we be- the SON, and the HOLY GHOST, be seech thee to send down upon this amongst you, and remain with you thy servant thy heavenly blessing; always. Amen. THE LITANY AND SUFFRAGES. O GOD, the FATHER of heaven; O holy, blessed, and glorious TRIhave mercy upon us miserable sin-NITY, three persons and one GOD; have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ners. O GOD, the FATHER of heaven; have mercy upon us miserable sin Remember not, LORD, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever: Spare us, good LORD. From all evil and mischief; from sin; from the crafts and assaults of the devil; from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation; Good LORD, deliver us. From all blindness of heart; from pride, vain-glory, and hypocrisy from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness; Good LORD, deliver us. From all inordinate and sinful affections; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the to the order of Deacons [or Priests} devil; Good LORD, deliver us. From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death; Good LORD, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment; Good LORD, deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation; by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision; by thy Baptism, Fast ing, and Temptation; Good LORD, deliver us. By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial; and by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension; and by the coming of the HOLY GHOST; Good LORD, deliver us. In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our prosperity; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment; Good LORD, deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O LORD GOD; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to bless and preserve all Christian rulers and magistrates; giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. and to pour thy grace upon them; that they may duly execute their office, to the edifying of thy Church, and to the glory of thy holy name; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to give us a heart to love and fear thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as have erred, and are deceived; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those who fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to succor, help, and comfort all who are in dan ger, necessity, and tribulation; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, That it may please thee to preserve with true knowledge and understand-all who travel by Jand or by water, ing of thy word; and that both by all women in the perils of child-birth, their preaching and living they may all sick persons, and young children, set it forth, and show it accordingly; and to show thy pity upon all prisonWe beseech thee to hear us, good ers and captives; LORD. That it may please thee to bless these thy servants, now to be admitted We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless child-earth, as it is in heaven; Give us ren, and widows, and all who are this day our daily bread; And for desolate and oppressed; give us our trespasses, as we forgive We beseech thee to hear us, good those who trespass against us; And LORD. lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men ; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slander. ers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so that in due time we may enjoy them; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy word; We beseech thee to hear us, good LORD. SON of GOD, we beseech thee to hear us. SON of GOD, we beseech thee hear us. to O Lamb of Gon, who takest away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of GOD, who takest away the sins of the world; Have mercy upon us. The Bishop may, at his discretion, omit all that follows, to the Prayer, We humbly beseech thee, O Father, &c. O CHRIST, hear us. Bishop. O LORD, deal not with us according to our sins. Answer. Neither reward us according to our iniquities. Bishop. Let us pray. O GOD, merciful Father, who despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as are sor. rowful; mercifully assist our prayers which we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and subtlety of the devil or man worketh against us, may, by thy good providence, be brought to naught; that we, thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore, give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. O LORD, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake. O GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them. O LORD, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thine honor. Glory be to the FATHER, and to the SON, and to the HOLY GHOST; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. From our enemies defend us, O CHRIST. Graciously look upon our affic Then shall the Bishop, and the people with prayers. him, say the Lord's Prayer. OUR Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy king. dom come; Thy will be done on Ŏ Son of David, have mercy upon us. Both now and ever, vouchsafe to hear us, O CHRIST. Graciously hear us, O CHRIST ; name, turn from us all those evils graciously hear us, O Lord CHRIST. that we most justly have deserved; O LORD, let thy mercy be showed and grant that, in all our troubles, upon us; we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in boliness and pureness of WE humbly beseech thee, O Fa-living, to thy honor and glory, through ther, mercifully to look upon our in- our only Mediator and Advocate, JEfirmities; and for the glory of thy SUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. As we do put our trust in thee. Here endeth the Litany. THE ORDER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER, OR HOLY COMMUNION. OUR Father, who art in heaven, | Hallowed be thy Name; Thy king. dom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against 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. The Collect. ALMIGHTY GOD, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy HOLY SPIRIT that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily maguify thy holy name, through CHRIST our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Bishop, turning to the People, rehearse distinctly the Ten Commandments; and the People still kneeling, shall, after every commandment, ask God merey for their trans gressions for the time past, and grace to keep the law for the time to come, as followeth. Bishop. GOD spake these words, and said, I am the LORD thy GOD: thou shalt have none other gods but me.. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in hea ven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them nor wor ship them: For I the LORD thy GOD am a jealous GOD; and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and show mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy GOD in vain : For the LORD will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. People. LORD, have mercy upor us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy GOD. In it thou shalt do no manner of work; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-serv ant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six dava the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long in the lana which the LORD thy GOD giveth thee. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt do no murder. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt not commit adultery. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt not steal. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. Bishop. Thou shalt not covet thy reighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. People. LORD, have mercy upon us, and write all these thy laws in our hearts, we beseech thee. Then the Bishop may say, THOU shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind: This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. T Let us pray. O ALMIGHTY LORD, and ever. lasting GOD, vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments; that, through thy most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul, through our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. Amen. Then shall be read the Collect, Epistle, and LET your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. St. Matt. v. 16. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. St. Matt. vi. 19, 20. Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, even so do to them: for this is the law and the prophets. St. Matt. vii. 12. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. St. Matt. vii. 21. Zaccheus stood forth, and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have done any wrong to any man, I restore fourfold. St. Luke xix. 8. Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own cost? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 1 Cor. ix. 7. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your worldly things? 1 Cor. lix, 11. |