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First Collect for Morning Prayer.

[For Evening Prayer omit this Collect, and substitute in its stead the General Thanksgiving, which will be found at p. 283. of this work.]

O LORD our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day; defend us in the same with thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, ́through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.

ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking; we beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord In whose prevailing name, and form of prayer, we sum up all our petitions unto Thee, beseeching thee to hear us according to the sacred meaning of his own most holy words:

OUR Father which art in heaven, &c. See p. 61. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.

FAMILY OR PRIVATE WORSHIP.

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Reference to Collects in the Book of Common Prayer, which may be introduced additionally, according to Circumstances.

For purity of heart, 6th after Epiph., 1st collect at
Communion, and Purification of B. V. M.

For faith, hope, and charity, 14th after Trinity.
For true and constant faith, Trin. Sund., St. Thomas,
St. Mark.

For hope of everlasting life, 2d in Adv.

For christian charity, Quinquagesima.

For the grace and aid of God, 1st aft. Epiph., 4th in Adv., 2d in Lent, 1st, 2d, 9th, and 13th aft. Trin.

For fruitfulness in good works, 5th aft. East., 1st, 9th, 11th, 13th, 17th, and 25th aft. Trin.

For our imitation of Christ, 2d after Easter.

For the love of God and of his laws, 4th aft. East., 1st, 6th, 7th, and 14th aft. Trin.

For protection of God's providence, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 20th aft. Trin.

Against evil thoughts, 2d in Lent, and 5th aft. East. Against covetousness, St. Matthew.

For true religion, 7th aft. Trin.

For conversion from sin, 1st in Adv., 1st aft. East., St. Andrew, St. James, and St. Matthew..

For contrition, Ash Wednesday.

For humility and patience, Sund. before East.
For support under affliction, last two collects in the
Litany, each headed "Let us pray."

For support under temptation, 4th after Epiph., 2d in Lent.

For acceptance of our prayers, 10th aft. Trin. and last collect at the end of the Communion Service.

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CHURCH CATECHISM.

"There being three points of his duty: the one to infuse a competent knowledge of salvation in every one of his flock; the other, to multiply and build up this knowledge to a spiritual temple; the third, to inflame this knowledge, to press and drive it to practice, turning it to reformation of life by pithy and lively exhortations; - Catechizing is the first point, and but by catechizing the other cannot be attained." "He useth and preferreth the ordinary Church catechism.”

George Herbert's Country Parson, 1632.

Question. WHAT is your [christian] name ?
Answer. N. or M.

Q. Who gave you this name?

A. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. *

Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you ?

A. They did promise and vow three things in my name: First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh. Secondly, that I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith. And thirdly, that I should keep God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.

That is, capable of inheriting the kingdom of heaven, which by nature we are not, being born in sin; but this original or birth sin is washed away by our baptism into Christ's religion.

CHURCH CATECHISM.

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Q. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe, and to do, as they have promised for thee? A. Yes verily and by God's help so I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray unto God to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my life's end.

Catechist. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief. Answer. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth: *

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of Sins; The Resurrection of the Body, And the Life everlasting. Amen.

Q. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief?

A. First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me, and all the world.

Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind.

Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth me, and all the elect people of God.

Q. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."-Gen. i. 1.

did promise for commandments. A. Ten.

you, that you should keep God's Tell me how many there be?

Q. Which be they?

A. The same which God spake in the twentieth chapter of Exodus*, saying, I am the Lord thy God,

The imposing circumstances under which the moral Law was first delivered to the Israelites, may well be repeated here, as they are set forth in the 19th chapter of the same book of Exodus:

"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken, we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow. And be ready against the third day, for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the mount or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death. There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day. And it came to pass on the third day

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