are thy People, and Sheep of diy Pafture, fhall give thee thanks for ever, and will always be fhewing forth thy praise from generation to generation. Amen.

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fafely kept under the fhadow of thy Wing, and fupported by thy power, he may triumph over all Oppofition, that fo the world may acknowledge Thee to be his De fender and mighty Deliverer in all The Epiftle. 1 S. Pet. 2. 11. Difficulties and Adverfities, thro' Early beloved, I beseech you Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. as ftrangers and pilgrims, Then the Prayer for the High abftain from fleshly lufts, which Court of Parliament (if Sitting.) war against the foul; Having your In the Communion-Service im- converfation honeft among the mediately before the Reading of Gentiles: that whereas they speak the Epifle, in ftead of the Collect for the King, and that of the Day, shall be used this Prayer for the King, as Supreme Governor of the Church.

Leffed Lord, who haft called

Bchitian Princes to the be

againft you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they thall behold, glorific God in the day of vifitation. Submit your felves to every ordinance of man for the Lords fake: whether it be to

the King, as fupreme; or unto

Governors, as unto them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praife of them that do well. For fo is, the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to filence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnefs, but as the fervants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

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fence of thy Faith, and haft made it their Duty to promote the Spiritual Welfare together with the Temporal Intereft of their People; We acknowledge with humble and thankful hearts thy great Goodness to us, in fetting thy Servant our moft Gracious King over this Church and Nation; Give him, we beseech thee, all thofe heavenly Graces that are requifite for fo high a Truft; Let the work of thee his God profper in his hands; The Gofpel. S. Matt. 22, 16. Let his Eyes behold the Succefs of his Defigns for the Service of thy Nd they fent out unto him their difciples with the Hetrue Religion eftablished amongft rodians, faying, Mafter, we know us ; And make him a bleffed Inftru- that thou art true, and teacheft ment of protecting and advancing the way of God in truth, neither thy Truth whereever it is Perfecu- careft thou for any man: for thou ted and Oppreffed; Let Hypocrifie regardeft not the perfon of men. and Profaneness, Superftition and Tell us therefore, What thinkeft Idolatry fly before his Face; Let thou? Is it lawful to give tribute not Herefies and falfe Doctrines unto Cefar, or not? But Jefus perdifturb the Peace of the Church, ceived their wickedness, and faid, nor Schifms and caufelefs Divifions Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? weaken it; But grant us to be of Shew me the tribute-money. And one heart and one mind in ferving they brought unto him a peny. thee our God, and obeying him And he faith unto them, Whole is according to thy will: And that this image and fuperfcription? thefe Bleflings may be continued to. They fay unto him, Cefars. Then After-Ages, Let there never be faith he unto them, Render thereone wanting in his House to fuc fore unto Cefar the things which ceed him in the Government of are Cefars; and unto God the thefe Kingdoms, that our Pofterity may ice his Childrens Children and Peace upon Krael. So we that

things that are Gods. When they heard thefe words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

After

Godliness is great Riches, if a for we brough what he hathe nothing into World, neither can we carry any thing out. 1 Tim. 6, 6, 7.

After the Prayer [Por the whole ftate of Chrifts Church, &c.] these Collects following fall be used.

World may be fo peaceably or-
dered by thy Governance, that thy
Church may joyfully ferve thee in
all godly quietness, through Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.
G mighty God, that the words
which we have heard this day
with our outward cars, may
through thy grace be fo grafted
inwardly in our hearts, that they
may bring forth in us the fruit
of good living, to the honour and
praife of thy Name, through Jefus
Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for Unity. God the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, our only Saviout, the Prince of Peace; Give Amighty God, the fountain

us grace ferioufly to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy divifions. Take away all hatred and prejudice, and what foever elfe may hinder us from godly Union and Concord: That as there is but one Body, and one Spirit, and one Hope of our Calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptifm, one God and Father of us all; fo we may benceforth be all

of one Heart and of one Soul, united in one holy Bond of Truth and Peace, of Faith and Charity, and may with one mind and with one mouth glorifie thee, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Rant, O Lord, we beseech

of all wildom, who know eft our neceffities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking; We befeech thee to have compaffion upon our infirmities; and those things which for our unworthinefs we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchfafe to give us for the worthiaefs of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Teth all understanding, keep He peace of God which pafyour hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jefus Chrift our Lord: and the bleffing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, be amongst you, and

Ghee, that the course of this remain with you always. Amen.

GEORGE R.

Ur Will and Pleafure is, That this Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving for the First Day of Auguft, be forthwith Printed and Published, and be ufed Yearly on the faid Day in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chapels, in all Chapels of Colleges and Halls within both Our Univerfities, and of Our Colleges of Eaton and Winchefter, and in all Parish-Churches and Chapels within Our Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed.

Given at Our Court at St. James's, the Thirteenth Day of June, 1715. In the First Year of Our Reign.

By His Majefties Command,

Townfhend.

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Eing by Gods Ordirance, according to Our juft Title, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Governor of the Church, within these Our Dominions, We hold it moft agreeable to this Our Kingly Of: fice, and Our own Religious Zeal, to conferve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge in the Unity of true Religion, and in the bond of Peace: and not to fuffer unneceffary Difputations, Altercations, or Queftions to be raised, which may nourish Faction both in the Church and Common-wealth. We have therefore upon mature deliberation, and with the advice of fo many of Our Bfhops as might conveniently be called together, thought fit to make this Declaration following.

That the Articles of the Church of England (which havebeen allow. ed and authorized beretofore, and which Our Clergy generally have fubfcribed unto) do contain the true Doctrine of the Church of England, agreeable to Gods Word: which We do therefore ratific and confirm, requiring all Our loving Subje&s to continue in the uniform profeffion thereof, and prohibiting the leaft difference from the faid Articles, which to that end We command to be new Printed, and this Our Declaration to be published therewith.

That We are Supreme Governor of the Church of England: And that If any Difference arife about the external Policy, concerning Injunctiens, Canons, and other Conftitutions whatsoever thereto belonging, the Clergy in their Convocation is to order and fettle them, having first obtained leave under Our Broad Seal fo to do, and We approving their faid Ordinances and Conftitutions; providing that none be made contrary to the Laws and Cuftoms of the Land.

That out of Our Princely care, that the Churchmen may do the work which is proper unto them, the Bishops and Clergy, from time to time in Convocation, upon their humble defire, fhall have Licence under Our Broad Seal, to deliberate of, and to do all fuch things, as being made plain by them, and affented unto by us, fhall concern the fettled continuance of theDo&rine and Difcipline of the Church of England now eftablifhed; from which We will not endure any varying or departing in the leaft Degree.

That for the prefent, though fome Differences have been ill raised, yet We take comfort in this, that all Clergy-men within Our Realm have always moft willingly fubfcribed to the Articles eftablished; which is an argument to Us, that they all agree in the true ufual literal meaning of the faid Articles, and that even in thofe curious Points in which the prefent Differences lie, men of all forts take the Articles of the Church of England to be for them; which is an Argument again, that none of them intend any Defertion of the Articles eftablished."

That therefore in thefe both curious and unhappy D.fferences which have for fo many hundred years, in different times and places, exercifed the Church of Chrift, We will that all further curious fearch be laid afide, and thefe Disputes fhut up in Gods Promifes, as they be generally fet forth to us in the holy Scriptures, and the general meaning of the Articles of the Church of England according to them. And that no man bereafter fhall either Print or Preach to draw the Article afide any way, but shall submit to it in the plain and full meaning thereof;

and

and fhall not put his own Senfe or Comment to be the meaning of the Article, but fhall take it in the literal and Grammatical Senfe.

That if any publick Reader in either Our Univerfities, or any Head or Mafter of a College, or any other Perfon respectively in either of them, fhall affix any new Senfe to any Article, or fhall publickly read, determine or hold any publick Difputation, or fuffer any fuch to be held either way, in either the Univerfitles or Colleges refpectively; or if any Divine in the Universities fhall Preach or Print any thing either way, other than is already established in Convocation with Our Royal Affent; he, or they the Offenders, thall be liable to Our Difpleafure, and the Churches Cenfure in Our Commiffion Ecclefiaftical, as well as any other: And We will fee there fhall be due Execution upon them.

is of one Subftance, Majefty and
Glory, with the Father, and the
Son. very and eternal God.
VI. Of the Sufficiency of the holy
Scriptures for falvation.

Oly Scripture containeth all

fo that whatfoever is not read there-
in, nor may be proved thereby, is
not to be required of any man, that
it fhould be believed as an Article
of the Faith, or be thought requi-
fire or neceffary to falvation. In
the Name of the holy Scripture we
do under the Old and
Books of the Old and New Tefta-`
ment, of whofe Authority was ne-
ver any doubt in the Church.

Of the Names and Number of the
Canonical BOOK S.