say,

All this I steadfastly believe. Adding this. Then shall the Minister examine whe- 0 Saviour of the world, who by thy ther he repent him truly of his sins, ex- cross and precious blood hast rehorting him to a particular Confes- deemed us, save us and help us, we humsion of the sin for which he is con- bly beseech thee, O Lord. demned; and upon Confession, he shall instruct him what satisfaction ought to be made to those whom he has offended thereby; and if he knoweth any combinations in wickedness, or any evil practices designed against others, let him be admonished to the utmost of his power to discover and prevent them.

After his Confession, the Minister shall declare to him the pardoning mercy of God, in the Form which is

used in the Communion Service.

After which shall be said the Collect following.

Holy Jesus, who of thine infinite good

Then the Minister, standing, shall N the midst of life we are in death: Of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sius art justly displeased?

Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts: Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers; but spare us, Lord most 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.

ness, didst accept the conversion of mercy a sinner upon on the this cross; thy servant, open who thine desireth eye of TH

Then the Minister shall say, THE Almighty God, who is a most pardon and forgiveness, though in his latest their trust in him; to whom all things in strong tower to all those who put hour he turneth unto thee. Renew in him heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud bow and obey; be now and ever more and malice of the devil, or by his own carnal thy defence; and make thee know and feel will and frailness. Consider his contrition; that there is none other name under hea accept his repentance; and forasmuch as ven given to man, in whom and through he putteth his full trust only in thy mercy, whom thou mayest receive salvation, but impute not unto him his former sins, but only the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. strengthen him with thy blessed Spirit; and Amen.

when thou art pleased to take him hence,

him unto thy favour: This

we beg

And after that shall say,

through thy merits, O Lord, our Saviour UNTO God's gracious mercy and pro

and our Redeemer. Amen.

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bless thee and keep thee: The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and he gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace both now and evermore.

At the time of Execution, besides all, or such parts of the foregoing office as the Minister shall judge proper, shall be said the Commendatory Prayer for a person at the point of Departure, as it is in the Visitation of the Sick.

Then the Minister shall say, Father of mercies and God of all comfort; we fly unto thee for succour in behalf of this thy servant, who is now under the sentence of condemnation. The day of his calamity is at hand, and he is accounted as one of those who go down into the pit. Blessed Lord, remember thy mercies; look upon his infirmities; hear the voice of his complaint; give him, we beseech thee, patience in this his time of adversity, and support under the terrors which encompass him; set before his eyes the things he hath done in the body, which have justly provoked thee to anger; and forasmuch as his continuance appeareth to this thy servant, who for his transgressions he short amongst us, quicken him so much is appointed to die. Grant that he may the more by thy grace and holy Spirit; that he, being converted and reconciled him truly of his sins; that he recovering thy ake thy judgments patiently, and repent unto thee, before thy judgments have cut favour, the fearful reward of his actions him off from the earth, may at the hour of may end with this life; and whensonver his death depart in peace, and be received his soul shall depart Into thine everlasting kingdom. through be withoutspot resented unto thee, through from the body, it may Jesus Christ our Lord Amen. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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The Collect for the Communion Service. God, who declarest thy Almighty pity; we beseech thee to have mercy upon power chiefly in showing mercy and

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The Epistle. Heb. xii. 11. Jalways a deep sense of their sins, and of TO chastening for the present seemeth thy fatherly love and correction; and the to be joyous, but grievous; neverthe-more their confinement presseth hard upon less, afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable them, the more let the comforts of thy fruit of righteousness, unto them which are grace and mercy abound towards them. exercised thereby.

The Gospel. St. John v. 24.

VERILY, 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; but passed from death unto life.

A Prayer for imprisoned Debtors.

Give to their creditors tenderness and coinpassion, and to them a meek and forgiving spirit towards all those who have contined them, and a full purpose to repair all the injuries and losses which others have sustained by them. Raise them up friends to pity and relieve them; give them the con tinued comfort of thy countenance here;

M OST gracious God, look down in pity and so sanctify their afflictions, that they and compassion upon these thine may work for them an eferual weight of afflicted servants, who are fallen under the glory, through the merits and mediation of misery of a close restraint. Give them Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

A FORM OF

PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING

To Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all the other Blessings of his mer. ciful Providence; to be used yearly on the first Thursday in November, or on such other Day as shall be appointed by the Civil Authority.

The Service shall be as usual, except where it is hereby otherwise appointed.

Among the Sentences at the beginning of Morning Prayer shall be the following:

HONOUR the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. Prov. iii. 9, 10.

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens: By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. Prov. iii. 19, 20.

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut. xxxiii. 27.

He covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth; he maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food; and to the young ravens which cry.

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: Praise thy God, O Sion.

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the firest of the wheat. Then shall be said or sung one of the Selections, or some other portion of the Psalms, at the discretion of the

Minister.

Israel then shall dwell in safety alone; I The First Lesson shall be Deut. viii. the fountain of Jacob shall be upon the land of corn and of wine, also his heaven shall drop down dew. Deut. xxxiii. 28.

Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! Deut. xxxiii. 29. Instead of, O come let us sing, &c. the following shall be said or sung: PRAISE ye the Lord; for it is good to

sing praises unto our God; for it is The Lord doth build up Jerusalem; he gathereth together the out-casts of Israel. He healeth those that are broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

pleasant, and praise is comely.

and the Second Lesson shall be 1 Thess. v. 12 to 24.

After the General Thanksgiving, shall be said this which followeth:

MOST gracious God, by whose knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew; we yield thee unfeigned thanks and praise, as for all thy mercies, sa especially for the returns of Seed-time and Harvest, and for crowning the year with thy goodness, in the increase of the ground, and the gathering in of the fruits thereof. And, we beseech thee, give us a just sense of this great mercy; such as may appear in our lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before

Gree all our days, through Jesus Christ our holding his natural face in a glass: for he Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and Ghost, be all glory and honour, world straightway forgetteth what manner of man without end. Amen.

The Collect to be used instead of that

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for the day.

Most merciful Father, who hast bless

he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in

ed the labours of the husbandman in his deed. If any man among you seem the returns of the fruits of the earth; we to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, give thee humble and hearty thanks for but deceiveth his own heart, this man's rethis thy bounty; beseeching thee to con- ligion is vain. Pure religion and undetinue thy loving kindness to us; that our filed before God and the Father is this: land may still yield her increase, to thy to visit the fatherless and widows in their glory and our comfort, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle. St. James i. 16.

affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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The Gospel. St. Matt. v. 43. Do not err, my beloved brethren: every good gift and every perfect have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and from above; and cometh down from the hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Father of Lights, with whom is no varia- love your enemies, bless them that curse bleness, neither shadow of turning. Of his you, do good to them that hate you, and own will begat he us of the word of truth, pray for them which despitefully use you that we should be a kind of first fruits of and persecute you: that ye may be the his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved children of your Father which is in heaven. brethren, let every man be swift to hear, for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil slow to speak, slow to wrath for the wrath and on the good, and sendeth rain on the of man worketh not the righteousness of just and on the unjust. For if ye love God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and them which love you, what reward have superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with ye? do not even the Publicans the same? meekness the engrafted word, which is abis Or if ye salute your brethren only, what to save your souls. Be ye doers of the word; do ye more than others? do not even the and not hearers only, deceiving your own Publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, selves. For if any be a hearer of the word even as your Father which is in heaven is and not a doer, he is like unto a man be-perfect.

FORMS OF PRAYER
TO BE USED IN FAMILIES.

MORNING PRAYER.

The Master or Mistress having called together as many of the Family as can conveniently be present; let one of them, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling:

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UR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy King. dom come; Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

A LMIGHTY and everlasting God, in whom we Acknowledgment live and move and have our being; we, thy of God's mercy and needy creatures, render thee our humble praises, for thy preservation of us from the beginning of our lives to this day, and especially for having delivered us from the dangers of the past night. To thy watchful

R preservation, espe cially through the night pust.

stead of say,

* When disturb- providence we owe it, * (that no disturbance hath ances of any kind come nigh us or our dwelling; but, that we are befall a Family, in- brought in safety to the beginning of this day.) For that notwithstanding these thy mercies, we bless and magnify thy glorious our dangers, we are Name; humbly beseeching thee to accept this our brought in safety to morning sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; for his the beginning of this sake who lay down in the grave, and rose again for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

day.

Dedication of soul and body to God's service, with a resolution to be growing daily in goodness.

Prayer for grace to enable us to perform that resolution.

AND, since it is

of thy mercy, O gracious Father,

that another day is added to our lives; we here dedicate both our souls and our bodies to thee and thy service, in a sober, righteous, and godly life: In which resolution, do thou, O merciful God, confirm and strengthen us; that, as we grow in age, we may grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

BUT,

O God, who knowest the weakness and corruption of our nature, and the manifold temptations which we daily meet with; we humbly beseech thee to have compassion on our infirmities, and to give us the constant assistance of thy Holy Spirit; that we may be effectually restrained from sin, and excited to our duty. Imprint upon our hearts such a dread of thy judgments, and such a grateful sense of thy goodness to us, as may make us both afraid and ashamed to offend thee. And, above all, keep in our minds a lively remembrance of that great Day, in which we must give a strict account of our thoughts, words, and actions; and according to the works done in the body, be eternally rewarded or punished, by him whom thou hast appointed the Judge of quick and dead, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For grace to guide and N particular, we implore thy grace and prokeep us the following tection for the ensuing day. Keep us day, and for God's blestempe. rate in our meats and drinks, and diligent in our sing on the business of several callings. Grant us patience under any afflictions thou shalt see fit to lay on us, and minds always contented with our present condition. Give us grace to be just and upright in all our * On Sunday Morning dealings; quiet and peaceable; full of compasinstead of this, say, let thy Holy Spirit accom- sion; and ready to do good to all men, according pany us to the place of thy to our abilities and opportunities. Direct us in public worship, making us all our ways *(and prosper the works of our serious and attentive, and hands in the business of our several stations.) thoughts of this world. Defend us from all dangers and adversities; and the consideration of the be graciously pleased to take us, and all things next, that we may fervent- belonging to us, under thy Fatherly care and protection. These things, and whatever else thou shalt sec necessary and convenient to us, we humbly beg, through the merits and mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

raising our minds from the

ly join in the prayers and praises of thy Church, and listen to our duty with honest hearts, in order to

practise it.

THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Атен

EVENING PRAYER.

The Family being together, a little before Bed Time, let the Master or Mistress, or any other whom they shall think proper, say as follows, all kneeling:

UR Father, who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Confession of sins, with a prayer for don. contrition and par..

OST merciful God, who art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and hast promised forgive ness to all those who confess and forsake their sins; we come before thee in an humble sense of our own unworthiness, acknowledging our manifold transgressions of thy righteous laws.* But, O gracious Fa- * Here, let him ther, who desirest not the death of a sinner, look who reads make a upon us, we beseech thee, in mercy, and forgive us short pause, that evall our transgressions. Make us deeply sensible of ery one may secretly confess sins the great evil of them; and work in us an hearty con- failings of that day. trition; that we may obtain forgiveness at thy hands, who art ever ready to receive humble and penitent sinners; for the sake of thy Son Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

Prayer for grace to reform and grow

AN ND lest, through our own frailty, or the temptations which encompass us, we be drawn again into sin, vouchsafe us, we bespech thee, the direction better. and assistance of thy Holy Spirit. Reform whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of our souls; that no unclean thoughts, unlawful designs, or inordinate desires, may rest there. Purge our hearts from envy, hatred, and malice; that we may never suffer the sun to go down upon our wrath; but may always go to our rest in peace, charity, and good-will, with a conscience void of offence towards thee and towards men: That so, we may be preserved pure and blameless, unto the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

ND accept, O Lord, our intercessions for all mankind.

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The Intercession. Let the light of thy Gospel shine upon all nations; and may as many as have received it, live as becomes it. Be gracious unto thy Church; and grant that every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry, may serve thee faithfully. Bless all in authority over us; and so rule their hearts and strengthen their hands, that they may punish wickedness and vice, and maintain thy true religion and virtue. Send down thy blessings temporal and spiritual, upon all our relations, friends, and neighbours. Reward all who have done us good, and pardon all those who have done or wish us evil, and give them repentance and better minds. Be merciful to all who are in any trouble; and do thou, the God of pity, administer to them according to their several necessities, for his sake who went about doing good, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.