by ascending in it to the right hand of the Father didst glorify our flesh; beseeching Thee of Thy tender mercy to render this soul for which I pray partaker of Thy triumph and of Thy glory. Amen.

Hail, Jesu Christ; or, Out of the deep.

III.-PRAYERS WHICH MAY BE SAID IN A CHURCHYARD.

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(From the same S. Gertrude).

[AIL, all ye faithful souls of Jesus Christ;

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true rest! May Jesus Christ, Who for us men and for our salvation was born of a Pure Virgin, and redeemed you with His Precious Blood, bless you, and release you from your discipline of watching and expectation, raise you up in the day of judgment, and place you with His Saints and elect angels.

(Another from the Encheiridion of Salisbury).

HALL, all ye fuel & in the dust! Far and

[AIL, all ye faithful souls, whose bodies here

wide may the Sun of Righteousness bless you, and make you to enjoy the brightness of His light for ever. Amen.

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the souls of these Thy servants and handmaidens, and of all the faithful departed, for whose salvation Thou didst hang naked and with outstretched Arms upon the Cross, and suffer Thy

five Wounds, and didst vouchsafe to endure the bitterness of death; Who livest and reignest God world without end. Amen.

IV.-A DEVOUT PRAYER FOR THOSE WHOSE MEMORY IS NEGLECTED.

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(From the same Encheiridion).

[AVE mercy, O Lord, upon the souls which have no especial intercessors with Thee, nor any hope except that they are created after thine image and likeness; who from age, or poverty, or the negligence or forgetfulness of their friends and survivors, are forsaken, and whose day of remembrance is never observed. Spare them, O Lord, and defend Thy creatures, the work of Thy Hand; deliver them from the discipline of pining expectation, stretch forth Thy right hand unto them, and bring them into a place of refreshment, light, and peace, through Him Who shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire. Amen.

CHAPTER IV.

Method of attending Divine Service on behalf of the Departed.

I.-A FORM OF ASSISTING AT FUNERAL

SERVICES.

bury the dead being one of the seven holy custom to assist at the funerals not only of our friends and relations, but of any of our fellow-parishioners, or the members of the congregation who may be dead. We therefore in this chapter set down the Burial Service with suitable prayers.

If you are in church much before the time, you may profitably employ it in saying the Litany for the Faithful Departed, page 101.

When the Priest and choristers go to the door of the church to meet the corpse, and go before it towards the chancel, you can sing with them the appointed Antiphons and Psalms, and then listen to the Lesson which follows.

The Priest and Clerks meeting the corpse at the

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entrance of the churchyard, and going before it, either into the church or towards the grave, shall say or sing,

AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. S. John xi. 25, 26.

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KNOW that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. Job xix. 25, 26, 27.

WE brought nothing into this world, and it is

certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job i. 21.

After they are come into the church, shall be read one or both of these Psalms following.

SAID, I will take heed to my ways: that I I offend not in my tongue.

I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle : while the ungodly is in my sight.

I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.

My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue;

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God, let me know mine end, and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live.

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Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.

For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

And now, Lord, what is my hope hope is even in thee.

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Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.

I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doing.

Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by means of thy heavy hand.

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment : every man therefore is but vanity.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears.

For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence, and be no more

seen.

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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.