¶Or this Pfalm: Jubilate Deo. Pfalm 100. Be joyful in the Lord,all ye lands: ferve the Lord with gladness,and come before his presence with a fong. Be ye fure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourfelves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praife: be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghoft; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever fhall be: world without end. Amen. ¶ Then fhall be fung or faid the Apoftles Creed, by the Minifter and the people, standing. Except only fuch days as the Creed of S. Athanafius is appointed to be read. Believe in God the Father ven and Earth: fered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buThe third day he rose again ried; He defcended into Hell; from the dead; He afcended into Heaven, and fitteth on ther Almighty; From thence the right hand of God the Fahe fhall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints ; The forgiveness of fins; The refurrection of the body; And the life everlasting. Amen. ¶ And after that, thefe Prayers following, all devoutly kneeling; the Minifter first pronouncing with a loud voice, The Lord be with you. Anfw. And with thy fpirit. Minifter. Let us pray. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Then the Minifter, Clerks, and People, fhall fay the Lords 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 is in heaven. Give our And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that tref pafs against us. And lead us not into temptation; but de And in Jefus Chrift his only Son our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghoft, Born of the Virgin Mary; Sufiver us from evil. Amen. Priest. O Lord, fave the King. Anfw. And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee. Prieft. Endue thy Minifters with righteousness. concord, in knowledge of whom ftandeth our eternal life, whofe fervice is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble fervants in all affaults of our enemies; that we furely trufting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adverfaries, through the might of Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. The third Collet for Grace. Anf. And make thy chof-ther, Almighty and en people joyful. Prieft. O Lord, fave thy fafely brought us to the begineverlasting God, who haft people. Anfw. And blefs thine in-ning of this day; Defend us heritance. Prieft. Give peace in our time, O Lord. Anfw. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God. Priest. O God, make clean our hearts within us. Anfw. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us. ← Then fhall follow three Collects; the firft of the Day, which shall be the fame that is appointed at the Communion; the second for Peace; the third for grace to live well. And the two laft Collets fhall never alter, but daily be faid at Morning Prayer throughout all the year, as followeth; all kneeling. The fecond Collect for Peace. God, who art the author of peace, and lover of in the fame with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no fin, neither run that all our doings may be orinto any kind of danger; but dered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy fight, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ¶ In Quires and places where, they fing, here followeth the Anthem. Then these five Prayers following are to be read here, except when the Litany is read; and then only the two laft are to be read, as they are. there placed. the only ruler of princes, who ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and doft from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our moft gracious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE; and fo replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue him plenteoufly with heavenly gifts, grant him in health and wealth long to live, ftrengthen him, that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; People. Amighty and everlafting God, who alone workeit great marvels; Send down upon our Bishops and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly pleafe thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy bleffing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator Jefus Christ. Amen. and finally after this life, he¶ A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. Lmighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord, to make our common fupplications un A Prayer for the Royal to thee, and doft promise, that Family. Almighty God, the foun when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou grant their requests; Ful world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlafting. Amen. tain of all goodness, we humbly befeech thee to blefs fil now, O Lord, the defires our gracious Queen Charlotte, and petitions of thy fervants, their Royal Highneffes George as may be most expedient for Prince of Wales, the Princefs them; granting us in this Dowager of Wales, and all the Royal Family: Endue them with thy Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly grace; profper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. TH 2 Cor. 13. 14. HE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Order of Morning Prayer throughout the Year. The EVENING PRAYER, Daily throughout the YEAR. ¶ At the beginning of Evening Prayer, the Minifter fhall read with a loud voice fome one or more of thefe Sentences of the Scriptures that follow: and then he shall fay that which is written after the faid Sentences. W HEN the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall fave his foul alive. Ezek. 18. 27. I acknowledge my tranfgreffions, and my fin is ever before me. Pfal. 51. 3. Hide thy face from my fins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Ver. 9. The facrifices of God are a broken fpirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife. Ver. 17. Rent your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel 2. 13. 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 judgment; not in thine anger, 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 father, 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 judgment with thy fervant, O Lord; for in thy fight shall no man living be justified. be juftified. Pfal. 143. 2. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and To the Lord our God be- the truth is not in us. But if we long mercies and forgiveneffes, confefs our fins, he is faithful thoughwe haverebelledagainst and juft to forgive us our fins, B and and to cleanse us from all un-erred and ftrayed from thy D righteoufnefs. 1 S. John 1.8,9. Early beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in fundry places to acknowledge and confefs our manifold fins and wickednefs, and that we should not diffemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father, but confefs them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart, to the end that we may obtain forgivenefs of the fame by his infinite goodness and mercy. 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 together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to fet forth his moft worthy praife, to hear his moft holy word, and to ask thofe things which are requifite and neceffary, 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 humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, faying after me. A general Confeffion to be faid of the whole Congregation, after the Minifter, all kneeling. Lmighty and moft mer Almighty and moft mer ciful Father; We have ways like loft fheep. We have followed too much the devices and defires of our own hearts. We have offended against 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 promises declared unto mankind in Christ 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. ¶ The Abfolution or Remiffion of fins, to be pronounced by the Prieft alone, ftanding; the People ftill kneeling. ALmighty God, the Fa ther of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who defireth not the death of a finner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; and hath given power and commandment to his minifters, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the Abfolution and Remiffion of their fins: He pardoneth and ab folveth |