and confefs our manifold fins offenders. Spare thou them, O and wickednefs, and that we God, which confefs their faults. fhould not diffemble nor cloke Reftore thou them that are pe them before the face of Almigh- nitent; According to thy proty God our heavenly Father, mifes declared unto mankind in but confefs them with an hum- Chrift Jefu our Lord. And ble, lowly, penitent, and obe- grant, Omoft merciful Father, dient heart, to the end that we for his fake; That we may heremay obtain forgiveness of the after live a godly, righteous, fame, by his infinite goodness and sober life, To the glory of and mercy. And although we thy holy Name. Amen. ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our fins before The Abfolution or Remiffion God, yet ought we most chiefly of fins, to be pronounced by, the Priest alone standing; fo to do, when we affemble and the People ftill kneeling. meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we Lmighty God, the Father have received at his hands, to of our Lord Jefus Chrift, fet forth his moft worthy praife, who defireth not the death of to hear his moft holy Word,and a finner, but rather that he to ask thofe things which are may turn from his wickedness, requifite and neceffary, as well and live; and hath given powfor the body as the foul.Where-er and commandment to his fore I pray and befeech you, as Minifters, to declare and promany as are here prefent, to nounce to his people, being peaccompany me with a pure nitent, the abfolution and reheart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, faying after me. A miffion of their fins: He pardoneth and abfolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gofpel. A general Confeffion to be faid: Wherefore let us befeech him of the whole Congregation to grant us true repentance, after the Minifter, all kneel and his Holy Spirit, that thofe things may pleafe him which Lmighty and moft merci- we do at this prefent, and that A ful Father, We have cr- the reft of our life hereafter ing. The People hall answer here, and at the end of all other Prayers, Amen. red and ftrayed from thy ways may be pure and holy, fo that like loft fheep. We have fol- at the last we may come to his lowed too much the devices and eternal joy, through Jefus defires of our own hearts. We Christ our Lord." have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone thofe things which we ought to have done; And we have done thofethings which we oughtnot to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable Then the Minifter shall kneel, and fay the Lords Prayer with an audible voice; the People alfo kneeling, and repeating it with him, both here where O Heaven; wherefoever else it is ufed in Divine Service. Ur Father, which art in Hallowed by 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 trefpaffes, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory, For ever and ever. Amen. Then likewife he shall fay, O'Lord, open thou our lips. Anfw. And our mouth fhall thew forth thy praise. Prieft. O God, make speed to fave us. Let us come before his prefence with thanksgiving: and fhew our felves glad in him with Pfalms. For the Lord is a great God : and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the ftrength of the hills is his alfo. The fea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship, and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pafture, and the fheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; When your fathers tempted me proved me, and faw my works. Forty years long was I grie ved with this generation, and faid: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways. Unto whom I fware in my wrath: that they fhould not enter into my reft. 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 shall follow the Pfalms in order as they are appointed. And at the end of every Pfalm throughout the Year, and likewife at the end of Benedicite,Benedi&tus,Mag nificat, and Nunc dimittis, Shall be repeated, B21 Glore Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghoft; The holy Church through out all the world: doth acknowledge thee; The Father: of an infinite Majefty; Alfo the Holy Ghoft: the Thou art the King of glory: Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. : Anfw. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever fhall be: world without end. Amen. Then shall be read diftinctly with an audible voice the first Lefon taken out of the Old Teftament, as is appointed in the Kalendar, except O Christ. there be proper Leffons affigned for that Day:) he that readeth, foftanding and turn- When thou tookeft upon ing himself, as he may best be thee to deliver man: thou didst heard of all fuch as are pre- not abhor the Virgins womb. fent. And after that, hall When thou hadst overcome be faid or fung in English, the fharpness of death: thou the Hymn called, Te Deum didft open the kingdom of Laudamus, daily throughout heaven to all believers. the Year. Thou fitteft at the right Note, That before every Lef- hand of God: in the glory of fon, the Minifter fhall fay, the Father. Here beginneth fuch aChapter, or Verfe of fuch a Chapter of fuch a Book: And after every Leffon,Here endetht he Firft or the Second Leffon. Te Deum Laudamus. WE praise thee, O God:. we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee: the Father everlasting. To thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To the Cherubin and Seraphin: continually to cry, Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth. We believe that thou fhalt come: to be our Judge. We therfore pray thee, help thy fervants: whom thou haft redeemed with thy precious blood. Make them to be numbred with thy Saints: in glory everlasting. O Lord, fave thy people : and bless thine heritage. Govern them: and lift them up for ever. Day by day we magnifie thee; And we worship thy Name: ever world without end. Vouchfafe, O Lord: to keep Heaven and earth are full of us this day without fin. the Majefty of thy glory. O Lord, have mercy upon us: have mercy upon us. O Lord,let thy mercy lighten upon us : as our truft is in thee. O Lord, in thee have I trufted: let me never be confounded. Or this Canticle, Benedicite, Oye Light, and Darkness, omnia Opera Domini. blefs ye the Lord: praise him, All ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him,and magnifie him for ever. O ye Angels of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Heavens, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. and magnifie him for ever. Oye Lightnings,and Clouds, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O let the Earth blefs the Lord yea, let it praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Mountains, and Hills, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. Oye Waters that be above the firmament, bless ye the O all ye Green things upon Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O all ye Powers of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Sun,and Moon,blefs ye the Lord: praise him,and magnifie him for ever. Oye Stars of Heaven, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Ŏye Showres, and Dew, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Winds of God, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Fire, and Heat, blefs ye the Lord praise him, and magnifie him for ever. : O ye Winter, and Summer, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. Oye Dews, and Frofts, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Oye Froft, and Cold, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. Ö ye Ice, and Snow, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Ö ye Nights, and Days, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. the earth, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Wells, blefs ye the Lord praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Seas, and Floods, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Ö ye Whales, and all that move in the waters, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O all ye Fowls of the air, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O all ye Beafts, and Cattle, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Ŏ let Ifrael bless the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Priefts of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Servants of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Spirits, and Souls of the righteous, blefs ye the Lord : praise him, and magnifie him for ever. B 3 O ye Oye holy, and humble men To give knowledge of falvaof heart, blefs ye the Lord: tion unto his people: for the praife him, and magnifie him remiffion of their fins, for ever. O Ananias, Azarias, and Mifael, blefs ye the Lord: praife him,and magnifie him for ever. Glory be to the Father, c. As it was in the, &c. Then shall be read in like manner the Second Leffon, taken out of the New Teftament. And after that, the Hymn following, except when that fall happen to be read in the Chap Beffe Through the tender mercy of our God: whereby the Dayfpring from on high hath visited us; To give light to them that Jubilate Deo. Pfalm 100. with gladness, and come before ter forthe Day, or for the Gofpele lands: ferve the Lord en Saint John Baptifts Day. Benedictus. S. Luke 1. 68. Leffed be the Lord God of Ifrael: for he hath visited and redeemed his people; And hath raifed up a mighty falvation for us in the houfe of his fervant David; As he fpake by the mouth of his holy prophets: which have been fince the world began; That we should be faved from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us; : To perform the mercy pro mifed to our forefathers: and to remember his holy covenant; To perform the oath which Be ye fure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we our felves, we are his people, and the fheep of his pafture. Ogo your way into his gates with thankfgiving, 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, &c. he fware to our forefather A-Then shall be fung or faid the braham: that he would give us; That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies : might ferve him without fear; In holiness and righteousness before him: all the days of our life. I Apoftles Creed by the Minifter Believe in God the Father And thou, Child, fhalt be and Earth called the prophet of the High And in Jefus Chrift his only eft for thou fhalt go before Son our Lord, Who was conthe face of the Lord to prepare ceived by the Holy Ghoft,Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered his ways; under |