The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, COMMONLY CALLED The Churching of Women. FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger of Child-birth; you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God, and say, ( Then may the Minister say the 116th Psalm.) AM well pleased: that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer; That he hath inclined his ear unto me: therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me. I found trouble and heaviness, and I called upon the Name of the Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous: yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple: I was in misery, and he helped me. Turn again then unto thy rest, O my soul: for the Lord hath rewarded thee. And why? thou hast delivered my soul from death: mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord: in the land of the living. I believed, and therefore will I speak; but I was sore troubled: I said in my haste, All men are liars. What reward shall I give unto the Lord: for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? I will receive the cup of salvation: and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. the Lord. Praise Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, shall be world without end. EXCEPT Amen. Or Psalm cxxvii. and ever : XCEPT the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it. Except the Lord keep the city: the watchman waketh but in vain. It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Lo, children and the fruit of the womb: are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord. Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant: even so are the young children. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Let us pray.. Lord, have mercy upon us. OUR Thy will Give us UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. be done in earth, As it is in heaven. this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, 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 Amen. ever. Answer. And let our cry come unto thee. Minister. Let us pray. ALMIGHTY God, we give thee humble thanks for that thou hast vouchsafed to deliver this woman thy servant from the great pain and peril of Child-birth; Grant, we beseech thee, most merciful Father, that she, through thy help, may both faithfully live, and walk according to thy will, in this life present; and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Psalms & David; printed from the Book of Common Prayer. (Royal arms) London: printed by George E. Eyre and Witham Spottiswood, Printon to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. Warehouses: London, 43, Fleet Street, E.C. Edinburgh, if &ldu New York, Cooper Union, Fourth Aven sheet: all the above in Roman capitals of insions sizes, except the line beginning "Printer", which is in B Engl |