the morning watch; I say, before the morn-hand in great weakness of body. Look gra ing watch. O Israel, trust in the LORD; for with the LORD there is mercy; and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins. Adding this. SAVIOUR of the world, who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed us; Save us, and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. T Then shall the Minister say, HE Almighty Lord, who is a most Tstrong tower to all those who put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the eartli, do bow and obey, Be now and evermore thy defence; and make thee know and feel, that there is none other Name under heaven given to man, in whom, and through whom, thou mayest receive health and salvation, but only the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Here the Minister may use any part of the service of this book, which, in his dis cretion, he shall think convenient to the occasion; and after that shall say, UNTO JNTO God's gracious mercy and protection we commit thee. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace, both now and evermore. Amen. Prayers which may be said with the foregoing service, or any part thereof at the discretion of the Minister. ciously upon him, O Lord; and the more the outward man decayeth, strengthen him, we beseech thee, so much the more continually with thy grace and Holy Spirit in the inner man. Give him unfeigned repentance for all the errors of his life past, and steadfast faith in thy Son Jesus; that his sins may be done away by thy mercy, and his pardon sealed in heaven, before he go hence, and be no more seen. We know, O Lord, that there is no word impossible with thee; and that, if thou wift, thou canst even yet raise him up, and grant him a longer continuance amongst us: Yet, forasmuch as in all appearance the time of his dissolution draweth near, so fit and prepare him, we beseech thee, against the hour of death, that after his departure hence in peace, and in thy favour, his soul may be received into thine everlasting kingdom; through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thine only Son, our Lord and Saviour Amen. A commendatory Prayer for a sick Person at the point of departure. ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of just men made per. fect, after they are delivered from their earthly prisons; We humbly commend the soul of this thy servant, our dear brother, into thy hands, as into the hands of a faithful Creator, and inost merciful Saviour; most humbly beseeching thee, that it may be precious in thy sight. Wash it, we pray thee, in the blood of that imaway the sins of the world; that whatsomaculate Lamb, that was slain to take ever defilements it may have contracted A Prayer for a sick Child. in the midst of this miserable and naughty ALMIGHTY God, and merciful Fa- world, through the lusts of the flesh, or ther, to whom alone belong the issues the wiles of Satan, being purged and done of life and death; Look down from heav- away, it may be presented pure and withen, we humbly beseech thee, with the eyes out spot before thee. And teach us who of mercy upon this child, now lying upon survive, in this, and other like daily specthe bed of sickness: Visit him, O Lord, tacles of mortality, to see how frail and with thy salvation; deliver him in thy good uncertain our own condition is; and so to appointed time from his bodily pain, and number our days, that we may seriously save his soul for thy mercies' sake: That, apply our hearts to that holy and heavenif it shall be thy pleasure to prolong his ly wisdom, whilst we live here, which days here on earth, he may live to thee, may in the end bring us to life everlastand be an instrument of thy glory, by sering; through the merits of Jesus Christ ving thee faithfully, and doing good in his thine only Son our Lord. Amen. generation; or else receive him into those A Prayer for Persons troubled in mind heavenly habitations, where the souls of those who sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy or in conscience. BLESSED Lord, the Father of mer perpetual rest and felicity. Grant this, Oles, and the God of all comfort, We Lord, for thy mercies' sake, in the same thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. A Prayer for a sick Person, when there appeareth but smal! nope of recovery. FATHER of mercies, and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need; We fly unto the for succour in behalf of this thy servant, here lying under thy beseech thee, look down in pity and compassion upon this thy afflicted servant. Thou writest bitter things against him, and makest him to possess his former niquities; thy wrath lieth hard upon him, and his soul is full of trouble. But, O merciful God, who hast written thy holy Word for our learning, that we, through patience and comfort of thy holy Scrip tures, might have hope; give him a right understanding of himself, and of thy preserve his life, that there may be place threats and promises; that he may nei- for repentance; but if thou hast otherther cast away his confidence in thee, nor wise appointed, let thy mercy supply to place it any where but in thee. Give him him the want of the usual opportunity strength against all his temptations, and for the trimming of his lamp. Stir up in heal all his distempers. Break not the him such sorrow for sin and such fervent bruised reed, nor quench the smoking love to thee, as may in a short time do flax. Shut not up thy tender mercies in the work of many days: That among the displeasure; but make him to hear of joy praises which thy saints and holy angels and gladness, that the bones which thou shall sing to the honour of thy mercy hast broken may rejoice. Deliver him through eternal ages, it may be to thy from fear of the enemy, and lift up the unspeakable glory, that thou hast relight of thy countenance upon him, and deemed the soul of this thy servant from give him peace through the merits and me- eternal death, and made him partaker of diation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. the everlasting life, which is through JeA Prayer which may be said by the Min-sus Christ our Lord. Amen. ister in behalf of all present at the vis-▲ Thanksgiving for the beginning of a itation. recovery. GOD, whose days are without end, and whose mercies cannot be num- GREAT and mighty God, who ingest bered; Make us, we beseech thee, deepest down to the grave and bringest ly sensible of the shortness and uncer-up again; We bless thy wonderful goodtainty of human life; and let thy Holy ness, for having turned our heaviness into Spirit lead us through this vale of mise joy and our mourning into gladness, by rery, in holiness and righteousness, all the storing this our brother to some degree of days of our lives: That, when we shall his former health. Blessed be thy Name have served thee in our generation, we that thou didst not forsake him in his sickmay be gathered unto our fathers, hav-ness; but didst visit him with comforts ing the testimony of a good conscience; from above; didst support him in patience in the communion of the catholic Church; in the confidence of a certain faith; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope; in favour with thee our God, and in perfect charity with the world. All which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer which may be said in case of sudden surprise and immediate danger. MOST gracious Father, we fly unto thee for mercy in behalf of this thy servant, here lying under the sudden visitation of thine hand. If it be thy will, and submission to thy will; and, at last, didst send him seasonable relief. Perfect, we beseech thee, this thy mercy towards him; and prosper the means which shall be made use of for his cure: That being restored to health of body, vigour of mind, and cheerfulness of spirit, he may an oblation with great gladness; and to be able to go to thine house, to offer thee bless thy holy Name for all thy goodness towards him; through Jesus Christ our Saviour, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK. Forasmuch as all mortal men are 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 readiness to die, whensoever it shall please Al mighty God to call them, the Minister 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 publicly 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 Minister, signifying also how many there are to communicate with him, (which shall be two at the least) and all things necessary being prepared, the Minister shall there celebrate the Holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following. The Collect. LMIGHTY, everliving God, Maker seech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand, and to A mankind, dost correct those grant that he may take his sickness pa whom thou dost love, and chastise every tiently, and recover his bodily health, if it one whom thou dost receive; We be-be thy gracious will; and that whensoev er his soul shall depart from the body, loveth he chasteneth; and scourgeth eveit may be without spot presented unto ry son whom he receiveth. thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. Heb. xii. 5. Y son, despise not thou the chasten The Gospel. St. John v. 24. VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting Ming when life, art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord tion; but is passed from death unto life. After which the Minister shall proceed according to the form before prescribed for the Holy Communion, beginning at these words, Ye who do truly, &c. At the time of the distribution of the holy Sacrament, the Minister shall first receive the Communion himself, and after minister unto those who 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 Minister, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Minister shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and stead fastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his Blood for his redemptio, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefor, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his Soul's health, although he do not re ceive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the sick person is visited, and receiveth the Holy Communion all at one time, then the Minister, for more expedition, shall cut off the form of the Visitation at the Psalm, and go straight to the Communion. In the times of contagious sickness or disease, when none of the Purish or neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the sick in their houses, for fear of the infection, upon special request of the diseased, the Minister alone may communicate with him. THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. THere is to be noted, that the Office ensuing is not to be used for any unbaptized adults, any who die excommunicate, or who have laid violent hands upon themselves. T The Minister, meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Churchyard, and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the Grave, shall say, or sing, resurrection and the life, saith I AM there he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. St. John xi. 25, 26. KNOW that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. Job xix. 25, 26, 27. TE brought nothing into this world, WE and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job. i. 21. After they are come into the Church, shall be said or sung the following Anthem, taken from the 39th und 90th Psalms. LORD, let me know ; that I may be ORD, let me know my end, and the certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hast made my days as it nothing in respect of thee, and verily ev ery man living is altogether vanity. were a span long, and mine age is even as For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain; he heapeth up richies, 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 mme offences; and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. 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 were. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen. LORD, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to 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, yechildren 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 indig nation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee; and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 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. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 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 Lesson, taken out of the fifteenth Chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. N 1 Cor. xv. 20. TOW is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto Him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? and why stand we in jeopardy every hour? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If after the man Thou ner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? fool! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. 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 seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was not living soul; the last Adam was made a first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is 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 steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hal know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. When they come to the Grave, while the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, MAN, that is born of a woman, at 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 lowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But de liver us from evil. Amen. T Then the Minister shall say one or both of the following Prayers, at his discre tion. whom may we seek for succour, but of ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live 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. T Then, while the earth shall be cast upon the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the burden of the flesh, are in joy and fethe faithful, after they are delivered from licity; We give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labours. And we beseech thee, that we, with all those who 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. MERCIFUL God, the Father of our the Body by some standing by, the Min-O Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resur ister shall say, rection and the life; in whom whosoever Fmighty God, in his wise providence, liveth, and believeth in him, ORASMUCH as it hath pleased Al- believeth, shall live, though he die; and to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit is body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; looking for the general Resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the earth and the sea shall give up their dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his own glorious body; accord ing to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself. shall not die eternally; who also hath taught The grace of God, and the fellow. T Then the Minister shall say the Lord's ship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all ev Prayer, ermore. Amen. THE THANKSGIVING OF WOMEN AFTER CHILD-BIRTH; COMMONLY CALLED, THE CHURCHING OF WOMEN. This Service, or the concluding Prayer alone, as it stands among the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings, may be used at the discretion of the Minister. The Woman, at the usual time after her delivery, shall come into the church decently apparelled, and there shall kneel down in some convenient place, as hath been accustomed, or as the Ordinary shall direct: And then the Minister shall say unto her, |