holy Angels shall sing to the honour of thy mercy, through eternal ages, it may be to thy unspeakable glory, that thou hast redeemed the soul of this thy servant from eternal death, and made him partaker of the everlasting life, which is through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. praises which thy Saints and be thy name, that thou didst not forsake him in his sickness; but didst visit him with comforts from above; didst support him in patience and submission to thy will; and, at last, didst send him seasonable relief. Perfect, we beseech thee, this thy mercy towards him; and prosper the means which shall be made use of for his cure: of body, vigour of mind, and That being restored to health cheerfulness of spirit, he may offer thee an oblation with great be able to go to thine house, to grave, and bringest up again; gladness; and to bless thy holy we bless thy wonderful good-name for all thy goodness toness, for having turned our hea- wards him, through JesusChrist viness into joy and our mourn- our Saviour: To whom, with ing into gladness, by restoring thee and the Holy Spirit, be all this our brother to some degree honour and glory, world withof his former health. Blessed out end. Amen. A Thanksgiving for the be- to the THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK. T Forasmuch as all mortal men are subject to many sudden perils, diseases, and sicknesses, and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life; therefore, to the intent they may be always in readiness to die, whensoever it shall please Almighty God to call them, the Ministers shall diligently from time to time (but especially in the time of pestilence, or other infectious sickness) exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, when it shall be publicly administered in the Church; that so doing, they may, in case of sudden visitation, have the less cause to be disquieted for lack of the same. But if the sick person be not able to come to the Church, and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his house; then he must give timely notice to the Minister, signifying also how many there are to communicate with him; (which shall be two at the least;) and all things necessary being prepared, the Minister shall there celebrate the Holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following: The Collect. everliving God, Maker of mankind, who dost correct those whom thou dost love, and chastise ALMIGHTY every one whom thou dost receive; we beseech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand; and to grant that he may take his sick ness patiently, and recover his [of him. For whom the Lord bodily health, if it be thy gra- loveth, he chasteneth; and cious ill; and that whenso-scourgeth every son whom he ever his soul shall depart from receiveth. the body,it may be without spot Presented unto thee, through Jesus Christ our Amen. The Epistle. Heb. xii. 5. "Y'son, despise not thou the nor faint when thou art rebuked The Gospel. St. John v. 24. ERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, from death unto life. After which the Minister shall proceed according to the Form before prescribed for the Holy Communion, beginning at these words, Ye who do truly, &c. At the time of the distribution of the Holy Sacrament, the Minister shall first receive the Communion himself, and after minister unto those who are appointed to communicate with the sick, and last of all to the sick person. But if a man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, or for want of warning in due time to the Minister, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other just impedimen, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Minister shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and steadfastly believe that Jesus Christ halb cuffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving hina hearty thanks therefor, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the sick Person is visited and receiveth the Holy Communion at one time, then the Minister, for more expedition, shall cut off the Form of the Visitation at the Psalm, and go straight to the Communion. Tn the times of contagious sickness or disease, when none of the Parish or Neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the sick in their houses, for fear of the infection, upon special request of the diseased, the Minister alone may communicate with him. THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. Here is to be noted, that the Office ensuing is not be used for any unbaptized Adults, any who die excommunicate, or who have id violent hands upon themselves. The Minister, meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it either into the Church, or towards the Grave, shall say, or sing, AM the resurrection and the fife, 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. St. John xi. 25, 26. I 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. KNOW that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my O spare me a little, that I may skin worms destroy this body, recover my strength; before I yet in my flesh shall I see go hence, and be no more seen. God; whom I shall see for my- Lord, thou hast been our reself, and mine eyes shall be-fuge, from one generation to hold, and not another. Job xix. another. 25, 26, 27. Before the mountains were WE brought nothing into brought forth, or ever the earth 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 and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday; seesun the following Anthem,ing that is past as a watch in taken from the 39th and 90th the night. Psalms. LORD, let the number of my days that I may be certi- 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? Truly my hope is even in thee. Deliver me from all mine offences; and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume As soon as thou scatterest and fade away suddenly like them, they are even as asleep; the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure; and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee; and our secret sins 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 threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; BO 8002 In the midst of life we are in death: Of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, de liver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death to fall from thee. spiritual, but that which is na-sery. He cometh up, and is tural; and afterward that which cut down like a flower; he is spiritual. The first man is of fleeth as it were a shadow, and the earth, earthy: The second never continueth in one stay. man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth Thou knowest, Lord, the se corruption inherit incorrup-crets of our hearts: shut not tion. Behold, I show you a thy merciful ears to our praymystery: We shall not all ers; but spare us, Lord most sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: For the trumpet shall Bound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this cor- Then, while the earth shall ruptible must put on incorrup- be cast upon the body by tion, and this mortal must put Some standing by, the Mion immortality. So when this nister shall say, corruptible shall have put on TORASMUCH as it bath incorruption, and this mortal pleased Almighty God, in shall have put on immortality, his wise Providence, to take then shall be brought to pass out of this world the Soul of the saying that is written, our deceased Brother, we Death is swallowed up in vic-therefore commit his Body to tory. O death, where is thy the ground; earth to earth, sting? O grave, where is thy ashes to ashes, dust to dust: victory? The sting of death is looking for the general resursin, and the strength of sin is the rection in the last Day, and the law. But thanks be to God, life of the World to come, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ; through our Lord Jesus Christ. at whose second coming in gloTherefore, my beloved bre-rious Majesty to judge the thren, be ye steadfast, unmove- World, the Earth and the Sea able, always abounding in the shall give up their dead; and work of the Lord; forasmuch the corruptible Bodies of those as ye know that your labour is who sleep in him shall be not in vain in the Lord. changed, and made like unto his own glorious Body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself. When they come to the grave, while the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, F MAN, that is born of a wo-Then shall be said, or sung, man, hath but a short time to live, and is full of mi HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, |