COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS; AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE Protestant Episcopal Church, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. M DCCO LIV. Philadelphia, June 7, 1815. hereby certify, that this edition of the Comm Prayer Book, the Artic.es, Offices, and Metre Psalms and Hymns, has been duly compared with a Standard Book, and corrected, by a Presbyter of this Diocese, appointed by the Standing Committee thereof. BENJAMIN DORR, President of the Standing Committee of the LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Ratification of the Book of Com- | 16. The Ministration of Baptism to such as 8. The Order how the Psalter is appoint- 4. The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read. 5. Tables of Lessons of Holy Scripture, 7. Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts, together with the Days of Fasting and Abstinence 8. Tables for finding the Holydays. 9. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer. 10. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer. 11. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon sev- eral Occasions, to be used before the two final prayers of Morning and 12. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to. 4. The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, to be used in the Church. are of Riper Years, and able to answer 17. A Catechism; that is to say, an l- struction to be learned by every Person before he be brought to be confirmed 18. The Order of Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands upon those that are hap tized, and come to years of Discretion. 19. The Form of Solemnization of Matri- 23. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called, The 24. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea. THE RATIFICATION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, this Sixteenth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. THIS Convention having, in their present session, set forth A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, do hereby establish the said Book: And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church And require that it be received as such by all the members of the same: And this Book shall be in use from and after the First Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety. |