A LMIGHTY and everlasting God, who alone workerft great marvels; Send down upon our Bithops and Curates, and all Congregations committed to T 2 Cor. xiii. 14. HE grace of our Lord Jesus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore Amen. Here endeth the Order of Morning Prayer. EVENING PRAYER. At the beginning of Evening Prayer, the Minister shall read with a loud voice some one or more of these sentences of the Scriptures that follow; and then he shall say that which is written after the faid sentences. The facrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt no: defpife. Pfalm li. 17. Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Foelii. 13. To the Lord our God belong 1 mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he fet before us. Daniel ix. 9, 10. O Lord, correct me, but with judgement: not in thine anger, left thou bring me to nothing. Fer. x. 24. Pfalm vi. 1. Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matt. iii. 2. I will arife, and go to my father; and will say unto him, Father, I have finned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy fon. Luke xv. 18, 19. Enter not into judgement with thy servant, O Lord: for in thy fight shall no man living be justified. Pfalm cxliii. 2. If we say that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us: But if we confefs our fins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanfe us from all unrighteoufness. 1 John i. 8, 9. D EARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in fundry places to acknowledge and confefs our manifold fins and wickedness; and that we should not diffemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the fame, by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our fins before God, yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we affemble and meet togetner, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to fet forth his moft worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requifite and neceffary, as well for the body as the foul. Wherefore I pray and befeech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, faying after me: A general Confeffion, to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minifter, all kneeling. A LMIGHTY and moft merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like loft sheep: We have followed too much the devices and defires of our own hearts: We have of fended against thy holy laws: We have left undone thote things which we ought to have done; And we have done thote things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miferable offenders: Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults: Restore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promifes, declared unto mankind in Chrift Jefu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his fake, That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and fober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen. The Abfolution, or Remision of Sins, to be pronounced by the Priest alone, standing; the People still knceling. A LMIGHTY God, the Father of our Lord jefus Christ, who defireth not the death of a finner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; and hath given power and | commandment to his Minifters, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the Abfolution and Remiffion of their fins: He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gofpel. Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his holy Spirit; that those things may please him which we do at this prefent, and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy; to that at the last we may come to his eternal joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then the Minister shall kneel, and fay the Lord's Prayer; the People also kneeling, and repeating it with him. 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 trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpass against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen. Then likewise he shall say, O Lord, open thou our lips; Answ. And our mouth thall thew forth thy praife. Priest. O God, make speed to fave us. Anfw. O Lord, make haste to help us. Here all ftanding up, the Prieft Thail fay, Glory be to the Father, and to the son: and to the Holy Ghost; Ansto. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen. Prieft Praife ye the Lord. Answ. The Lord's Name be praifed. Then shall be faid or fung the Pfalms in order, as they are appointed. Then a Leffon of the Old Testament, as is appointed, and after that, Magnificat, or the Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in English, as foltoweth. Magnificat. Luke i. 46. Y foul doth magnify the Lord: : and my fpirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded lowliness of his handmaiden. For, behold, from henceforth : all generations shall call me blessed. M the For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name. And his mercy is on them that fear him : throughout all generations. He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their feat and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath fent empty away. He remembering his mercy, hath holpen his fervant Ifrael: as be promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his feed, for ever. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Or else this Pfalm; except it be on the Nineteenth Day of the Month, when it is read in the ordinary course of the Pfalms. Cantate Domino. Pfalm xcvii. SING unto the Lord a new fong: for he hath done mar vellous things. With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory. The Lord declared his falvation his righteousness hath he openly showed in the fight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Ifrael and all the ends of the world have seen the saivation of our God. Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands: fing, rejoice, and give thanks. Praise the Lord upon the harp: fing to the harp with a pfalm of thanfgiving. With trumpets also and shawms O thew yourselves joyful before the Lord the King. Let the fea make a noise, and all that therein is the round world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord: for he cometh to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity. Glory be to the Father, &c. Then a Lesson of the New Teftament, as it is appointed; and after that, Nunc dimittis, or the Song of Simeon, in English, as followeth. Nunc dimittis. Luke ii. 29. LORD, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word. For mine eyes have feen: thy faivation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Ifrael. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Or else this Pfalm; except it be on the Twelfth Day of the Month. Deus mifereatur. Pfalm lxvii. OD be merciful nnto us, and bless us and thew us G the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us; That thy way may be known upon earth thy faving heaith among all nations. Let the people praise thee, God yea, let all the people praife thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou thalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, yea, let all the people O God : praife thee. Then thall the earth bring forth her increase and God, even our own God, thall give us his bleffing. God shall blefs us and all the ends of the world thall fear him. Glory be to the Father, &c. &c. As it was in the beginning, Then shall be faid or fung the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the People, Standing. BELIEVE in God the Father I Almighty, Maker of heaver and earth: And in Jefus Chrift his only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was cru cified, dead, and buried: He defcended into Hell; The third day he rofe again from the dead: He afcended into Heaven, And fitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholic Church; The Cominunion of Saints; The Forgiveness of Sins; The Refur rection of the Body, And the Life everlafting. Amen. And after that, these Prayers following, all devoutly kneeling; the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice, The Lord be with you: Anfw. And with thy fpirit. Minister. Let us pray. Lord, have mercy upon us. Chrift, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Then the Minister, Clerks, and People, shall say the Lord's Prayer with a loud voice. 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 trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen. Then the Priest standing up, O Lord, thew thy mercy upon us; Anfw. And grant us thy falvation. Prieft. O Lord, fave the King; Anfw. And mercifully hear us, when we call upon thee. Prieft. Endue thy Minifters with righteousness; Anfw. And make thy chofen people joyful. Prieft. O Lord, fave thy people; heritance. Prieft. Give peace in our time, O Lord; Anfw. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God. A Prayer for the King's Majesty, LORD our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who doft from thy throne behold all the dwell ers upon earth; Moft heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord, King GEORGE; and fo fo replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue him, that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and finally, after this life, he may attain everlafting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for the Royal Family. ALMIGHTY Goodthe fountain of all goodness, we humbly befeech thee to bless our gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highneffes George Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and all the Royal Family: Endue them with thy Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly grace; profper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen. A Prayer for the Clergy and A God, who alone LMIGHTY and everlasting down great marvels; Send upon our Bithops and Curares, and all Congregations commited to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace: And that they may truly please hee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy bleffing: Grant tis, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator Jefus Chrift. Amen. him plenteoufly with heavenly and the fellowship of the Holy gifts; grant him in health and Ghost, be with us all evermore. wealth long to live; strengthen Amen. Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer. |