For Easter-day. The psalms appointed for Morning prayer, Ps. xxx., xlv., xlvii. Evening prayer, Ps. lvii., lxvi., lxxii. The hymn to be said after the second lesson at morning and evening prayer. IN Thee, O Lord, I have put my trust, let me never be put to confusion, but rid me and deliver me in Thy righteousness; incline Thine ear unto me and save me.-Be Thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort; Thou hast promised to help me, for Thou art my house of defence, and my castle. For Thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for; Thou art my hope even from my youth.-Through Thee have I been holden up ever since I was born; Thou art He that took me out of my mother's womb; my praises shall be always of Thee. O let my mouth be filled with Thy praise, that I may sing of Thy glory and honour all the day long. Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, and great things are they which Thou hast done; O God, who is like unto Thee? O what great troubles and adversities hast Thou shewed me; and yet didst Thou turn and refresh me, yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again. Thou hast brought to me great honour, and comforted me on every side. Therefore will I praise Thee and Thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an instrument of music; unto Thee will I sing upon the harp, O Thou holy one of Israel.-My lips will be fain when I sing unto Thee, and so will my soul whom Thou hast delivered. Blessed be the Lord God, even the God of Israel, which only doth wondrous things. And blessed be the name of His majesty for ever, and all the earth shall be filled with His majesty. Amen. Amen. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. The collect. O MOST holy, most glorious Saviour and Redeemer Jesu, who for our sakes didst descend from the glories of God to the pains and labours of the earth, and didst pass from a painful life to an ignominious death, from the bitterness of death to the darkness of the grave, and by Thy divine power didst raise Thyself from death to life again; we give Thee thanks for Thy infinite love to us and all mankind; we acknowledge Thee to be our Lord and confess Thee to be our God, we adore Thy majesty, and rejoice in Thy mercies; we humbly pray Thee to enable us with Thy spirit, to believe all Thy doctrines and to obey all Thy commandments, that after a holy and religious life spent in doing honour to Thy holy name, we may be partakers of Thy holy resurrection, passing from death to life, from the darknesses of the grave to the light of heaven, from an imperfect duty to the perfection of holiness, in the fruition of the joys of God in Thy eternal kingdom, O most holy, most glorious Saviour and Redeemer Jesu. Amen. Upon Ascension-day. Instead of the psalms of the day, read at Morning prayer, Ps. xv., xxi., xxiv. O BLESSED high-priest, holy Jesus, king of the world and head of the church, who when Thou hadst taken upon Thee our nature and our sin, and appeased Thy Father's wrath, and performed all His will, and overcome death, and rescued all obedient souls from the hand of the enemy, didst ascend to Thy eternal Father, and open the kingdom of heaven to all believers; Thou hast espoused Thy church unto Thyself with the eternal circles of Thy providence, with Thy love and with Thy care, with Thy word and with Thy spirit, Thy promises and Thy holy intercession; Thou hadst a feeling of our infirmities, and art our merciful high-priest, making intercession for us for ever: O be pleased to represent and supply all our wants, excuse all our infirmities, pity all our calamities, pardon our sins, and send down Thy holy spirit of grace into our hearts, that though we walk upon the earth, yet our conversation may be in heaven, and there also may be our portion and inheritance for ever, through Thy mercies, O most gracious Saviour and Redeemer Jesus. Amen. The hymn to be said after the second lesson at morning and evening prayer. SING aloud unto God our strength, make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.-I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I will remember Thy wonders of old, I will meditate of all Thy works, and talk of Thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary; who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doest wonders; Thou hast de clared Thy strength among the people.-Vow, and pay, unto the Lord your God; let all that be round about Him bring presents unto Him that ought to be feared. He shall cut off the spirit of princes, He is terrible to the kings of the earth. Say unto God, How terrible art Thou in Thy works! through the greatness of Thy power shall Thine enemies submit themselves unto Thee. Sion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of Thy judgments, O Lord.-For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth, Thou art exalted far above all gods. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.-Rejoice in the Lord ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness. The Lord hath made known His salvation, His righteousness hath He openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.-He hath remembered His mercy and truth toward the house of Israel, all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.-For He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth, He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. The collect. O ETERNAL God, the great Father of spirits, the great lover of souls, who didst send Thy holy spirit upon Thy church in the day of Pentecost, and hast promised that He shall abide with Thy church for ever, let Thy holy spirit lead us into all truth, defend us from all sin, enrich us with His gifts, refresh us with His comforts, rule in our hearts for ever, conduct us with His truth, and lead us in the way everlasting, that we living by Thy spirit, and walking in Him, may by Him be sealed up to the day of our redemption. O let Thy spirit witness to our spirits that we are the children of God, and make us to be so for ever, through Jesus our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. Upon Trinity-Sunday. O BLESSED, ineffable and most mysterious Trinity, how admirable are Thy beauties, how incomparable are Thy perfections, how incom prehensible are those relations of the three most blessed Persons, which we believe and admire and adore, but understand not! The angels are amazed in the unimaginable beauties of that glorious presence, and are swallowed up with the ocean of Thy infinity. How then can we, who are in the lowest order of understanding creatures, and have removed ourselves further from Thee and the participation of Thy excellencies by a sinful life, praise Thee either according to our duty, or Thy glories! Yet be pleased to accept the humblest adorations, and with a favourable and a gracious eye behold the lowest worshippings and duty of Thy servants. We confess and glory in Thy omnipotency, Thy immensity, Thy goodness, Thy uncircumscribed nature, Thy truth, Thy mercy, Thy omniscience. Olet us also receive Thy blessings and gracious influences, that we may adore Thee with all our powers and possibilities for ever, love Thee with all our affections for ever, serve with our best and earliest, and all our industry that being here wholly inebriated with love, and busied in Thy service and the duties of a holy obedience, we may to all eternity rejoice in the beholding of those glories which are above all capacities, above all heavens, above all angels, even those glories which stream forth from the throne of the eternal God, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost, to whom be glory and dominion, honour and adoration, eternally confessed due, and humbly paid, by all men and all angels, world without end. Amen. A collect to be used upon any of the festivals or ALMIGHTY God, who hast built Thy holy church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, we bless and magnify Thy name, Thy holy and ever glorious name, for Thy great graces which thou gavest to Thy apostles, and prophets, and martyrs, in the days of their flesh; and this day we have Thy servant (S. Paul, S. Peter, S. James, &c. here name the apostle, &c.) in remembrance; praising Thee for the benefits which the church hath received by his ministry and example; we pray unto Thee to give us Thy grace, that we [obeying Thy doctrine which he taught and published, and] following his example as he followed Christ, we also may with safety and holiness pass through this valley of tears; that serving Thee in our generation, advancing Thy honour, and obeying Thy laws, we may in the society and communion of saints and angels sing eternal halleluiahs to the honour of Thy mercy and of Thy majesty, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. AN OFFICE OR ORDER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT ACCORDING TO THE WAY OF THE APOSTOLICAL CHURCHES, AND THE DOCTRING OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THE ANTE-COMMUNION. Thy OUR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. 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. The collect. Amen. O KING of glory, Lord and maker of the world, Thou art a God knowing all things and all thoughts even long before they are, be Thou present with us, in this religious solemnity calling upon Thee. Deliver us from the shame of our sins, from the corruption and evil inclinations that attend them, and from all the evils that may justly follow them. Cleanse our wills and our understandings from all evil lusts and concupiscence, from the deceits of the world, from the violence and snares of the devil, from all guile and hypocrisy, from every evil word and work, that we may serve Thee faithfully, worship Thee religiously, and pray unto Thee acceptably, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the minister humbly say this prayer of preparation, first in behalf of himself, then of the congregation. O LORD God, who in mercy and great compassion dost consider Thy people and hast given unto us Thy unworthy servants, miserable sinners, confidence and commandment to present ourselves before Thee at Thy holy table to represent a holy, venerable, and unbloody sacrifice for our sins, and for the errors and ignorances of all Thy people: look upon me the meanest and most polluted of all them that approach to Thy sacred presence. Pity me, O God, and wash away all my sins. Cleanse my heart and my hands, my head and my lips, from all impurities of the flesh and spirit: and remove far from |