Man : yet he is not two, but one ther, God Almighty : from whence Christ; he shall come to judge the quick One; not by conversion of the and the dead. Godhead into flesh : but by taking At whose coming all men shall of the Manhood into God; rise again with their bodies : and One altogether; not by confu- shall give account for their own sion of Substance : but by unity works. of Person. And they that have done good For as the reasonable soul and shall go into life everlasting : and flesh is one man : so God and Man they that have done evil into everis one Christ; lasting fire. Who suffered for our salvation : This is the Catholick Faith : descended into hell, rose again the which except a man believe faiththird day from the dead. fully, he cannot be saved. He ascended into heaven, he Glory be to the Father, &c. sitteth on the right hand of the Fa- As it was in the beginning, &c. : THE LITANY. Here followeth the LITANY, or General Supplication, to be sung or said after Morning Prayer upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and at other times when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary. O GOD the Father, of heaven : From all evil and mischief; from have mercy upon us misera- sin, from the crafts and assaults ble sinners. of the devil; from thy wrath, and O God the Father, of heaven from everlasting damnation, have mercy upon us miserable sin Good Lord, deliver us. ners. From all blindness of heart; O God the Son, Redeemer of from pride, vain-glory, and hypothe world : have mercy upon us crisy ; from envy, hatred, and mamiserable sinners. lice, and all uncharitableness, O God the Son, Redeemer of the Good Lord, deliver us. world : have mercy upon us mi- From fornication, and all other serable sinners. deadly sin; and from all the deO God the Holy Ghost, pro- ceits of the world, the fleshi, and ceeding from the Father and the the devil, Son : have mercy upon us mise- Good Lord, deliver us. rable sinners. From lightning and tempest; O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from plague, pestilence, and fafrom the Father and the Son : have mine ; from battle and murder, mercy upon us miserable sinners. and from sudden death, O holy, blessed, and glorious Good Lord, deliver us. Trinity, three Persons and one From all sedition, privy conGod : have mercy upon us mise- spiracy, and rebellion; from all rable sinners. false doctrine, heresy, and schism; O holy, blessed, and glorious from hardness of heart, and conTrinity, three Persons and one tempt of thy Word and Com. God : have mercy upon us mise- mandment, rable sinners. Good Lord, deliver us. Remember not, Lord, our of- By the mystery of thy holy Infences, nor the offences of our carnation; by thy holy Nativity forefathers; neither take thou and Circumcision; by thy Bapvengeance of our sins : spare us, tism, Fasting, and Temptation, good Lord, spare thy people, Good Lord, deliver us. whom thou hast redeemed with By thine Agony and bloody thy most precious blood, and be Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion; not angry with us for ever. by thy precious Death and Burial; Spare us, good Lord. by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us. In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgement, Good Lord, deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true wor. shipping of thee, in righteousness and holiness of life, thy Servant VICTORIA, our most gracious Queen and Governour; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to rule her heart in thy faith, fear, and love, and that she may evermore have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to be her defender and keeper, giving her the victory over all her enemies; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accordingly;, We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council, and all the Nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people; We bescech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred, and are deceived ; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand; and to comfort and help the weakhearted; and to raise up them that fall; and finally to beat down Satan under our feet; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort, all that are in danger, necessity, and tribulation; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children; and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed; We bescech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men; We beseech thee to hear us, good Let us pray. Lord. That it may please thee to for- O GOD, merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a give our enemies, persecutors, contrite heart, nor the desire of and slanderers, and to turn their such as be sorrowful; Mercifully hearts; assist our prayers that we make We beseech thee to hear us, good before thee in all our troubles and Lord. adversities, whensoever they opThat it may please thee to give press us; and graciously hear us, and preserve to our use the kindly that those evils, which the craft fruits of the earth, so as in due and subtilty of the devil or man time we may enjoy them; worketh against us, be brought to We beseech thee to hear us, good nought; and by the providence Lord. of thy goodness they may be disThat it may please thee to give persed; that we thy servants, beus true repentance; to forgive us ing hurt by no persecutions, may all our sins, negligences, and ig evermore give thanks unto thee in norances; and to endue us with thy holy Church; through Jesus the grace of thy Holy Spirit to Christ our Lord. amend our lives according to thy O Lord, arise, help us, and deholy Word; liver us for thy Name's sake. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. 0 GOD, we have heard with our Son of God : we beseech thee to ears, and our fathers have hear us. declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and Son of God : we beseech thee to in the old time before them. hear us. O Lamb of God : that takest O Lord, arise, help us, and de liver us for thine honour. away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace. Glory be to the Father, and to O Lamb of God : that takest the Son : and to the Holy Ghost; away the sins of the world; Answer. As it was in the beginHave mercy upon us. ning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. O Christ, hear us. From our enemies defend us, o O Christ, hear us. Christ. Lord, have mercy upon us. Graciously look upon our afflic Lord, have mercy upon us. tions. Christ, have mercy upon us. Pitifully behold the sorrows of Christ, have mercy upon us. our hearts. Lord, have mercy upon us. Mercifully forgive the sins of thy Lord, have mercy upon us. people. Favourably with mercy hear our Then shall the Priest, and the prayers. people with him, say the Lord's o Son of David, have mercy Prayer. upon us. UR Father, which art in hea- Both now and ever vouchsafe OUR ven, Hallowed be thy Name. to hear us, O Christ. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be Graciously hear us, o Christ; done in earth, As it is in heaven. graciously hear us, o Lord Christ. Give us this day our daily bread. Priest. O Lord, let thy mercy And forgive us our trespasses, be shewed upon us; As we forgive them that trespass Answer. As we do put our trust against us. And lead us not into in thee. temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. Priest. O Lord, deal not with WE humbly beseech thee, o Father, mercifully to look us after our sins. upon our infirmities; and for the Answer. Neither reward us af- glory of thy Name turn from us ter our iniquities. all those evils that we most right Let us pray. eously have deserved; and grant, three are gathered together in thy that in all our troubles we may put Name thou wilt grant their reour whole trust and confidence in quests; Fulfil now, O Lord, the thy mercy, and evermore serve desires and petitions of thy serthee in holiness and pureness of vants, as may be most expedient living, to thy honour and glory; for them; granting us in this ; through our only Mediator and world knowledge of thy truth, Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. and in the world to come life everAmen. lasting. Amen. A Prayer of St. Chrysostom. 2 Cor. xiii. ALNOG US Tracod: this linse T'Christa cand the trio Lords Tests given us at time , love of God, with one accord to make our com- and the fellowship of the Holy mon sup tions unto thee; and Ghost, be with us all evermore. dost promise, that when two or Amen. Here endeth the LITANY. PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS, UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, (To be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or of Morning and Evening Prayer. promised to all them that selentes O Gifted it his, that the rain doth PRAYERS glory; through Jesus Christ our GOD, heavenly Father, who Lord. Amen. by thy Son Jesus Christ hast In the time of Dearth and Famine. , righteousness GOD, heavenly thereof, all things necessary to fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts their bodily sustenance; Send us, increase, and fishes do multiply; we beseech thee, in this our ne Behold, we beseech thee, the af. cessity, such moderate rain and flictions of thy people; and grant showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort, that the scarcity and dearth, which and to thy honour; through Jesus we do now most justly suffer for Christ our Lord. Amen. our iniquity, may through thy goodness be mercifully turned inFor fair Weather. to cheapness and plenty; for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord, to O , whom with thee and the Holy for the sin of man didst once drown all the world, except eight Ghost be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen. persons, and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never Or this. to destroy it so again; We bumi in the time of Elisha the pro GOD, , bly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthi- phet, didst suddenly in Samaria ly deserved a plague of rain and turn great scarcity and dearth into waters, yet upon our true repent- plenty and cheapness; Have merance thou wilt send us such wea- cy upon us, that we, who are now ther, as that we may receive the for our sins punished with like adfruits of the earth in due season; versity, may likewise find a seaand learn both by thy punishment sonable relief: Increase the fruits to amend our lives, and for thy of the earth by thy heavenly beclemency to give thee praise and nediction; and grant that we, receiving thy bountiful liberality, hands suddenly on no man, but may use the same to thy glory, faithfully and wisely make choice the relief of those that are needy, of fit persons to serve in the sacred and our own comfort; through Ministry of thy Church. And to Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. those which shall be ordained to any holy function give thy grace In the time of War and Tumults. and heavenly benediction; that O ALMIGHTYGod King of both by their life and doctrine all kings, and Governour glory, all things, whose power no crea- set forward the salvation of all ture is able to resist, to whom it men; through Jesus Christ our belongeth justly to punish sinners, Lord. Amen. and to be merciful to them that Or this. tre Kunbiy beseech thee, from the Atom all good gifts, who of thy truly repent LMIGHTY , hands of our enemies; abate their pride, asswage their malice, and divine providence hast appointconfound their devices; that we, ed divers Orders in thy Church; being armed with thy defence, Give thy grace, we humbly beseech may be preserved evermore from thee, to all those who are to be all perils, to glorify thee, who art called to any office and administrathe only giver of all victory; tion in the same; and so replenish through the merits of thy only them with the truth of thy docSon, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. trine, and endue them with inno cency of life, that they may faithIn the time of any common Plague fully serve before thee, to the gloc7 Sickness. ry of thy great Name, and the beO ALMIGHTY God, who in nefit of thy holy Church; through thy wrath didst send a plague Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. upon thine own people in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebel ( A Prayer that may be said after lion against Moses and Aaron; any of the former. and also in the time of king O Gerth, whose nature and proDavid, didst slay with the plague is ever to of Pestilence threescore and ten and to forgive, receive our humthousand, and yet remembering ble petitions; and though we be thy mercy didst save the rest; tied and bound with the chain of Have pity upon us miserable sin- our sins, yet let the pitifulness of ners, who now are visited with thy great mercy loose us; for the great sickness and mortality; that honour of Jesus Christ, our Me. like as thou didst then accept of diator and Advocate. Amen. an atonement, and didst command TA Prayer for the High Court of the destroying Angel to cease from Parliament, to be read during punishing, so it may now please their Session. thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness; MO TOST gracious God, we hum bly beseech thee, as for this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Kingdom in general, so especialAmen. ly for the High Court of ParliaIn the Ember Weeks, to be said ment, under our most religious every day, for those that are to and gracious Queen at this time be admitted into Holy Orders. assembled : That thou wouldest , our be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the adchased to thyself an universal vancement of thy glory, the good Church by the precious blood of of thy Church, the safety, honour, thy dear Son; Mercifully look up- and welfare of our Sovereign, and on the same, and at this time so her Dominions; that all things guide and govern the minds of thy may be so ordered and settled by servants the Bishops and Pastors their endeavours, upon the best of thy flock, that they may lay and surest foundations, that peace A venly Father, who hast pur |