The Absolution or Remiffion of fins, to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing; the People still kneeling. and confess our manifold sins offenders. Spare thou them, O and wickedness, and that we God, which confefs their faults. should not diffemble nor cloke Reftore thon them that are pethem before the face of Almigh- nitent; According to thy proty God our heavenly Father, miscs declared unto mankind in but confess them with an hum- Chrift Jesu our Lord. And ble, lowly, penitent, and obe- grant, O most merciful Father, dient heart, to the end that we for his fake; That we may heremay obtain forgiveness of the after live a godly, righteous, fame, by his infinite goodness and fober life, To the glory of and mercy. And although we thy holy Name. Amen. ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our fins before God, yet ought we most chiefly fo to do, when we affemble and. meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to of our Lord Jesus Chrift, set forth his most worthy praise, who defireth not the death of to hear his most holy Word, and a finner, but rather that he to ask those things which are may turn from his wickedness, requisite and neceffary, well and live; and hath given powfor the body as the foul. Where-er and commandment to his fore I pray and beseech you, as Minifters, to declare and promany as are here present, to nounce to his people, being peaccompany me with pure nitent, the absolution and reheart and humble voice, unto miffion of their fins: He parthe throne of the heavenly doneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gofpel. Wherefore let us beseech him grace, saying after me. ing. as a Almighty A general Confeffion to on to be faid of the whole Congregation to grant us true repentance, after the Minister, all kneel- and his Holy Spirit, that those things may please him which we do at this present, and that Almighty and most merciful We have er- the rest of our life hereafter red and ftrayed from thy ways may be pure and holy, fo that like lost sheep. We have fol- at the last we may come to his lowed too much the devices and eternal joy, through Jesus defires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done 4 Then the Minifter shall kneel, thosethings which we oughtnot to have done, And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable Christ our Lord. The People shall answer here, and at the end of all other Prayers, Amen. and fay the Lord's Prayer with an audible voice, the People also kneeling, and repeating it with him, both bere where wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service. Ur Father, which art in Heaven Hallowed by 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: For thine is the Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory, For ever and ever. Amen. Then likewise he shall say, O Lord, open thou our lips. Answ. And our mouth fhall Thew forth thy praise. Prieft. O God, make speed to save us. Answer. O Lord, make hafte to help us. Here all standing up, the Priest shall say, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghoft; Answ. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. Arion Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and shew our selves glad in him with Pfalms. For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the ftrength of the hills is his alfo. The sea is his, and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship, and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and faw my works. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and faid: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways. Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my reft. 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. Then shall follow the Pfalms Glory Glory be to the Father, and The holy Church throughto the Son and to the Holy out all the world: doth acGhoft; be: knowledge thee; Father of an infinite Majesty; Thine honourable, true: and only Son; Also the Holy Ghost: the Answ. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall wor world without end. Amen. Then shall be read distinctly with an audible voice the first Leffon taken out of the Old Testament, as is appointed in the Kalendar, (except O Chrift. there be proper Lessons afsign : Comforter. Thou art the King of glory: Thou art the everlasting ed for that Day:) he that Son of the Father. readeth, softanding and turn When thou tookest upon ing himself, as he may best be thee to deliver man: thou didst heard of all such as are pre- not abhor the Virgins womb. fent. And after that, shall When thou hadst overcome be said or fung in English, the sharpness of death: thou the Hymn called, Te Deum didst open the kingdom of Laudamus, daily throughout heaven to all believers. the Year. the Father. Thou fittest at the right Note, That before every Lef- hand of God: in the glory of fon, the Minister shall say, Here beginneth fuch a ChapWe believe that thou shalt ter, or Verse of fuch a Chap- come: to be our Judge. ter of fuch a Book: And after We therfore pray thee, help every Leffon, Here endeththe endet thy servants: whom thou haft First or the Second Lesson. redeemed with thy precious Te Deum Laudamus. blood. WE praise thee, O God: wiMake them to be numbred we acknowledge thee with thy Saints: in glory e to be the Lord. verlasting. All the earth doth worship O Lord, save thy people: thee: the Father everlasting.and bless thine heritage. To thee all Angels cry a loud: the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To the Cherubin and Seraphin: continually to cry, Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth. Govern them: and lift them up for ever. Day by day we magnifie thee;" And we worship thy Name: ever world without end. Vouchsafe, O Lord: to keep Heaven and earth are full of us this day without fin. the Majesty of thy glory. The glorious company of the Apoftles: praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the Prophets: praise thee. The noble army of Martyrs: praise thee. O Lord, have mercy upon us: have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us : as our truft is in thee. O Lord, in thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded. Or this Canticle, Benedicite, O ye Light, and Darkness, All ye Works of the Lord, O let the Earth bless the Lord: yea, let it praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Mountains, and Hills, bless ye the Lord: praise him, Oye Waters that be above and magnifie him for ever. the firmament, bless ye the - O all ye Green things upon Lord: praise him, and magni- the earth, bless ye the Lord: fie him for ever. praise him, and magnifie him O all ye Powers of the Lord, for ever. bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Sun, and Moon, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Stars of Heaven, bless ye the Lord: praife him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Showres, and Dew, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Winds of God, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Fire, and Heat, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Winter, and Summer, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Dews, and Frofts, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Froft, and Cold, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Ice, and Snow, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Nights, and Days, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Wells, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Seas, and Floods, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Whales, and all that move in the waters, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O all ye Fowls of the air, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O all ye Beasts, and Cattle, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Olet Ifrael bless the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Priefts of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. O ye Servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Oye ye Spirits, and Souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord : praise him, and magnifie him For ever. B3 O ye O ye holy, and humble men To give knowledge of falvaof heart, bless ye the Lord: tion unto his people: for the praise him, and magnifie him remiffion of their fins, for ever. Through the tender mercy spring from on high hath visited us; To give light to them that fit in darkness, and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory be to the Father, c. As it was in the, &c. O Ananias, Azarias, and Mi- of our God: whereby the Dayfael, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnifie him for ever. Glory be to the Father, c. As it it was in the, &c. Then n shall b I be read in like manner the Second Lesson, taken out of the New Testament. And after that, the Hymn following; except when that hall happen to be read in the Chapter forthe Day, or for on Saint John Baptifts Day. Benedictus. S. Luke 1. 68. Leffed be the Lord God of his prefence with Ifrael: for he hath visited : B the Gofpel and redeemed his people; And hath raised up a mighty falvation for us in the house of his fervant David; Or this Pfalm. Jubilate Deo. Pialm 100. Be joyful in the Lord, all yelands: ferve the Lord with gladness, and come before O a fong. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we our felves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pafture. As he spake by the mouth of Ogo your way into his gates his holy prophets: which have with thanksgiving, and into been fince the world began; - his courts with praise : be That we should be saved thankful unto him, and nd speak from our enemies: and from good of his Name. the hands of all that hate us; For the Lord is gracious, his To perform the mercy pro- mercy is everlasting: and his mised to our forefathers: and truth endureth from generation to remember his holy cove nant; To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham: that he would give us; That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies : might serve him without fear; In holiness and righteousness before him: all the days of our life. to generation. Glory be to the Father, &c. Believe in God the Father I Almighty, Maker of And thou, Child, shalt be and Earth: called the prophet of the High- And in Jesus Chrift his only eit: for thou shalt go before Son our Lord, Who was conthe face of the Lord to prepare ceived by the Holy Ghost, Born his ways; of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under |