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8. O ye showers and dew,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

9. O ye winds of Gód,, bléss yè-the-Lord, pràise him and magnify him' for éver.

10. O ye fire and heat,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

11. O ye winter and summer,, blèss-ye the Lórd, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

12. O ye dews and frosts,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him' for éver.

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13. O ye frost and cold,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and mágnify him' for ever.

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14. O ye ice and snow,, bless ye the Lord, praise him, and magnify him' for ever.

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15. O ye nights and days,, blèss ye the Lord, praise him and màgnify-him' for éver. 16. O ye light and darkness,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

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17. O ye lightnings and clouds,, bléss ye the Lòrd, praise him and mágnify him' for èver. 18. O let the earth-bless-the-Lord; yea, let it praise him and magnify him' for èver.

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19. O ye mountains and hìlls,, bless yè-theLord, praise him and mágnify him' for evèr.

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20. O all ye green-things-upon-the-earth,, bless ye the Lord, praise him, and magnify him for ever.

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21. O ye wells,, blèss-ye the Lord, práise him and mágnify him' for ever.

22. O ye seas and floods,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

23. O ye whales, and all that move in the

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waters,, blèss ye the Lord, pràise him and mágnify him' for ever.

24. O all ye fowls of the air,, blèss ye the Lórd, praise him and mágnify him' for ever.

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25. O all ye beasts and cattle,, blèss ye the Lórd, praise him and mágnify him' for èver. 26. O ye children of men, bless YE'-the-Lord, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

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27. (*) O let ISR'AEL-bless-the-Lord, práise him and mágnify him' for éver.

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28. O ye Priests-of-the-Lord, bléss-ye-theLord, praise him and magnify him' for ever.

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29. O ye sérvants-of-the-Lord,, bless ye ́-theLord, praise him and mágnify him' for ever. 30. O ye spirits, and souls of the righteous,, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him' for éver.

31.

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0 (Slow) ye holy and humble-men-of-heart,, bléss ye the Lòrd, pràise him and mágnify him -for ever.

32. O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael,, bless

ye-the-Lord, praise him and magnify him' for

èver.

(*) Glóry' be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is nów, and èver s'hall be' world without end. Amen.

THE BENEDICTUS *.

Luke i. 68.

1. Blessed' be the LORD GOD of I'srael; for

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he hath vísited and redeemed-his-people:

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2. And hath raised-up' a míghty salvátionfor-us, in the house of his servant Dávid ;

3. As he spake by the mouth of his holy

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Próphets, which have béen' since the world begán ;

4. That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hands of all that háte

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us;

* The Benedictus may be used with peculiar propriety when the second Lesson relates to John the Baptist, or to the commencement of our Lord's history.

5. (*) To perform the mércy' promised to our

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forefathers, and to remember his holy cove

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nant;

6. To perform the oath, which he sware to our forefather A'braham, that he would give

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us;

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7. That wé, being delivered out of the hands of our énemies, might sérve Him without

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féar :

8. In hòliness and ríghteousness-before-him, all the days of our life.

9. And THÓU' child,, shalt be called the pró

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phet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lòrd, to prepare his ways; 10. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people, for the remission of their síns,

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11. Through the tender mercy of our GòD; whereby the day-spring from on high' hath vísited-us;

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12. To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death,, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

5. To perform the mercy] The third and fourth verses are within a parenthesis. To mark this, louder tones may be adopted in beginning the fifth.

(*) Glory' be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is nów, and èver sháll-be' world without end. Amen.

THE JUBILATE.

Psalm c.

1. O be joyful in the Lórd, áll

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sèrve-the-Lord with gládness, and come before

his présence' with a song.

O be joyful] The following remark is extracted from a work, published thirty years ago. That the first part of it is altogether inapplicable to the present times, is perhaps more than can be safely affirmed:-" After the second Lesson, many Divines, as if they were fatigued with reading a chapter, begin the following psalm in such a low tone, and in so feeble a manner, that, what with the method of their delivery, and that of the congregation after them, the whole is run and gabbled over so inarticulately, that all public devotional effect is completely and effectually destroyed. The sense of it clearly shows (and the two first lines alone are sufficient to prove the necessity) that it ought to be given with a lofty. tone, expressive of joyful praise to the Creator for his gracious mercy towards us, and of a full reliance on his goodness and bounty."

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