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with cheerful strength and gladness, to serve thee in all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BLES

III.-INTERCESSION.

LESS, O Lord, those whom thou hast set over us both in Church and State; govern their hearts in thy fear, and guide their understandings to do those things which will be acceptable to thee, and beneficial to this Church and Kingdom. Give the Queen loving and loyal subjects; and confound and defeat her open and secret enemies. Comfort the comfortless and helpless shew the light of thy truth to those who wander out of the right way; give to all sinners true repentance; strengthen and assist with thy grace those who have begun well, that they may persevere in goodness; to all our friends, kindred, and enemies, give all thy good blessings: keep us from all evil, and make us to continue in thy service to our lives' end; and after the course of this miserable life is ended, bring us to thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

IV.-COMMENDATORY.

GOD, who madest earth and heaven,

Darkness and light;

Who the day for toil hast given,

For rest the night;

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HE Lord defend you with his providence and heavenly grace. May his fatherly hand ever be over you, and his Holy Spirit ever be with you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

[Or, if no Priest be present.]

THE grace of our Lord, &c.

THURSDAY MORNING.

THE DAY OF THE CREATION OF THE FOWLS OF THE AIR AND THE FISHES OF THE SEA; OF THE INSTITUTION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST; AND OF THE ASCENSION OF OUR BLESSED LORD INTO HEAVEN.

Invocation.

N the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Prayer for Pardon and Grace.

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E humbly beseech thee, O heavenly Father, to do away as the night all our transgressions, And to scatter our sins as the morning cloud: Lord, forgive whatsoever thou hast seen amiss in us during the past night; Wash us throughly from our wickedness, and cleanse us from our sin; And let thy Holy Spirit so prevent, and accompany, and follow us during the day on which we are now entering, That we may believe in thee, and love thee, and keep thy commandments, And continue in thy fear all the day long; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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ABSOLUTION.

HE merciful Lord grant you pardon and peace, that ye may be cleansed from all your sins, and serve him with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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[Or, if no Priest be present.]

RANT, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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The Lord's Prayer.

UR Father, which art in heaven, 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 : For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and Amen.

ever.

M. Lift up your hearts.

A. We lift them up unto the Lord.

M. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.
A. It is meet and right so to do.

A Hymn of Praise.

LORY be to thee, O Lord; who as on

M.Gthis day didst bring forth out of the

waters the moving creature that hath life;

A. The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.

M. Blessed art thou, who as on this day didst ascend up into heaven and didst sit on the right hand of God.

A. Thy chosen Apostles saw thee taken up: and a cloud received thee out of their sight.

M. God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the trump.

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A. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be lift up, ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in.

M. This same Jesus, which is taken up from us into heaven: shall so come in like manner as they saw him go into heaven.

A. Lord, come again, and receive us unto thyself: that where thou art, there we may be also.

M. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;

A. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

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