sins of the world; that whatso- | vant. Thou writest bitter things ever defilements it may have con- against him, and makest him to tracted in the midst of this miser-possess his former iniquities; thy able and naughty world, through wrath lieth hard upon him, and the lusts of the flesh, or the wiles his soul is full of trouble: But, O of Satan, being purged and done merciful God, who hast written away, it may be presented pure thy holy Word for our learning, and without spot before thee. And that we, through patience and teach us who survive, in this and comfort of thy holy Scriptures, other like daily spectacles of mor- might have hope; give him a tality, to see how frail and un- right understanding of himself, certain our own condition is; and and of thy threats and promises; so to number our days, that we that he may neither cast away his may seriously apply our hearts to confidence in thee, nor place it that holy and heavenly wisdom, any where but in thee. Give him whilst we live here, which may in strength against all his temptathe end bring us to life everlast- tions, and heal all his distempers. ing, through the merits of Jesus Break not the bruised reed, nor Christ thine only Son our Lord. quench the smoking flax. Amen. not up thy tender mercies in displeasure; but make him to hear A Prayer for persons troubled in of joy and gladness, that the bones mind or in conscience. 0 BLESSED Lord, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts; We beseech thee, look down in pity and compassion upon this thy afflicted ser which thou hast broken may rejoice. Deliver him from fear of the enemy, and lift up the light of thy countenance upon him, and give him peace, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK. Forasmuch as all mortal men be subject to many sudden perils, diseases, and sicknesses, and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life; therefore, to the intent they may be always in a readiness to die, whensoever it shall please Almighty God to call them, the Curates shall diligently from time to time (but especially in the time of pestilence, or other infectious sickness) exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, when it shall be publickly administered in the Church; that so doing, they may, in case of sudden visitation, have the less cause to be disquieted for lack of the same. But if the sick person be not able to come to the Church, and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his house; then he must give timely notice to the Curate, signifying also how many there are to communicate with him, (which shall be three, or two at the least,) and having a convenient place in the sick man's house, with all things neceszury 80 prepared, that the Curate may reverently minister, he shall there celebrate the holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following. The Collect. AL LMIGHTY, everliving God, Maker of mankind, who dost correct those whom thou dost love, and chastise every one whom thou dost receive; We beseech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand, and to grant that he may take his sickness patiently, and recover his bodily health, (if it be thy gracious will) and whensoever his soul shall depart from the body, it may be without spot presented unto thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. Heb, xil. 5. Y son, despise not thou the My chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth; and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth, The Gospel, St. John v. 24. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent After which the Priest shall proceed according to the form before prescribed for the holy Communion, beginning at these words Ye that do truly &c.] At the time of the distribution of the holy Sacrament, the Priest shall first receive the Communion himself, and after minister unto them that are appointed to communicate with the sick, and last of all to the sick person. But if a man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, or for want of warning in due time to the Curate, or for lack of com pany to receive with him, or by any other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Curate shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his Blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefore, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his Soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the sick person is visited, and receiveth the holy Com munion all at one time, then the Priest, for more expedition, shall cut off the form of the Visitation at the Psalm [In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, &c.] and go straight to the Communion. In the time of the Plague, Sweat, or such other like contagious times of sickness or diseases, when none of the Parish or neigh bours can be gotten to communicate with the sick in their houses, for fear of the infection, upon special request of the diseased, the Minister may only communicate with him. THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. Here is to be noted, that the Office ensuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves. ¶The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the Grave, shall say, or sing, AM the resurrection and the destroy this body, yet in my flesh I life, saith the Lord: he that shall I see God: whom I shall see believeth in me, though he were for myself, and mine eyes shall dead, yet shall he live and who- behold, and not another. Job xix. soever liveth and believeth in me 25, 26, 27. shall never die. St. John xi. 25, St. John xi. 25, 26, WE E brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we KNOW that my Redeemer can carry nothing out. The Lord liveth, and that he shall stand gave, and the Lord hath taken at the latter day upon the earth. away; blessed be the Name of And though after my skin worms the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job i. 21. I After they are come into the Domine, refugium. Psalm xc. both of these Psalms falloring. Luge: from one generation to Church, shall be read or ORD, thou hast Dixi, custodiam. Psalm xxxix. SAID, I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue. I I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight. I held my tongue, and spake nothing I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me. My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue; Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee. Deliver me from all mine of fences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. I became dumb, and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing. Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by means of thy heavy hand.. When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. fore thee: and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Thou hast set our misdeeds be For when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure. O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom, Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last and be gracious unto thy servants. satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us : and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. Shew thy servants thy work : and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handywork. 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 seed his own body. All flesh is 1 Cor. xv. 20, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of N OW is Christ risen from the the terrestrial is another. There dead, and become the first-is one glory of the sun, and anfruits of them that slept. For other glory of the moon, and ansince by man came death, by man other glory of the stars; for one came also the resurrection of the star differeth from another star dead. For as in Adam all die, in glory. So also is the resurrec even so in Christ shall all be tion of the dead: It is sown in made alive. But every man in corruption; it is raised in incerhis own order: Christ the first-ruption: It is sown in dishonour; fruits; afterward they that are it is raised in glory: It is sown in Christ's, at his coming. Then weakness; it is raised in power: cometh the end, when he shall It is sown a natural body; it is have delivered up the kingdom raised a spiritual body. There is to God, even the Father; when a natural body, and there is a he shall have put down all rule, spiritual body. And so it is writ and all authority, and power. ten, The first man Adam was For he must reign, till he hath made a living soul; the last Adam put all enemies under his feet. was made a quickening spirit. The last enemy that shall be de- Howbeit, that was not first which stroyed is death. For he hath is spiritual, but that which is naput all things under his feet. But tural; and afterward that which when he saith, all things are put is spiritual. The first man is of under him, it is manifest that he the earth, earthy: the second man is excepted, which did put all is the Lord from heaven. As is things under him. And when all the earthy, such are they that are things shall be subdued unto him, earthy: and as is the heavenly, then shall the Son also himself such are they also that are heabe subject unto him that put all venly. And as we have borne things under him, that God may the image of the earthy, we shall be all in all. Else what shall they also bear the image of the hea do which are baptized for the venly. Now this I say, brethren, dead, if the dead rise not at all? that flesh and blood cannot inWhy are they then baptized for herit the kingdom of God; neithe dead? and why stand we in ther doth corruption inherit inJeopardy every hour? I protest corruption. Behold, I shew you by your rejoicing, which I have a mystery: We shall not all sleep, in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die but we shall all be changed, in a daily. If after the manner of moment, in the twinkling of an men I have fought with beasts at eye, at the last trump, (for the Ephesus, what advantageth it me, trumpet shall sound, and the if the dead rise not? Let us eat dead shall be raised incorruptible, and drink, for to-morrow we die. and we shall be changed. For Be not deceived: evil communi- this corruptible must put on incations corrupt good manners. corruption, and this mortal must Awake to righteousness, and sin put on immortality. So when this not; for some have not the know- corruptible shall have put on inledge of God. I speak this to your corruption, and this mortal shall shame. But some man will say, have put on immortality; then How are the dead raised up? and shall be brought to pass the saying with what body do they come? that is written, Death is swallowThou fool, that which thou sow-ed up in victory. O death, where est is not quickened, except it die. is thy sting? O grave, where is And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased him, and to every thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye sted fast, unmoveable, always abound-1 ing in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. When they come to the Grave, sohile the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, the Priest shall say, or the Priest and Clerks shall sing: MAN AN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins 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 prayer; 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. Then, while the earth shall be cast upon the Body by some standing by, the Priest shall say, FORASMUCH ORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. Then shall be said or suing, HEARD a voice from heaven, I saying unto me, Write. From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord: even so saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labours. Then the Priest shall say, Lord, have inercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. UR Father, which art in heaOUR ven, Hallowed be 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 trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. Priest. LMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity; We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world; beseeching thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Collect. 0 of our Lord Jesus Christ, who MERCIFUL God, the Father is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whoso ever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who also hath taught us, by his holy Apostle Saint Paul, not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him; We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth; and that, at the general Resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in thy sight; and receive that blessing. then pronounce to all that love and which thy well-beloved Son shall fear thee, saying, Come, ye blessed children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world: Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. 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. |