Upon thefe Feafts, Christmas Day, the Epiphany, St. Matthias, Eafter Day, Afcenfion Day, Whit-Sunday, St. John Baptif, St. James, St. Bartholomew, S. Matthew, St. Simon and St. Jude, St. Andrew, and upon Trinity Sunday, Jhall be fung or faid at Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles' Creed, this Confeflion of our Chriftian Faith, commonly called The Creed of St. Athanafius, by the Minifter and People, standing. Quicunque vult. And yet not three Lords: but WHOSOEVER will be one Lord. faved: before all things it is neceffary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he thall perith everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worthip one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Perfons: nor dividing the Sub. ftance. For there is one Perfon of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghott. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, is all one: the glory equal, the Majefty co-eternal. Such as the Father is, fuch is the Son and fuch is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghoft uncreate. The Father incomprehenfible, the Son incomprehenfible and the Holy Ghoft incomprehenfible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal and the Holy Ghost eternal; And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. As alfo there are not three incomprehenfibles, nor three uncreated but one uncreated, and one incomprehenfible. So likewife the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghoft Almighty; And yet they are not three Almighties: but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God: and the Holy Ghoft is God; And yet they are not three Gods but one God. So likewife the Father is Lord, the Son Lord and the Holy Ghost Lord. to For like as we are compelled by the Chriftian verity: acknowledge every Perfon by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to fay, There be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none : neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone: not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghoft is of the Father, and of the Son: neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons: one Holy Ghoft, not three Holy Ghofts. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other: none is greater, or less than another; But the whole three Perfons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in a things, as is aforefaid: the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be faved: must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is neceffary to everlafting falvation: that he alfo believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jefus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confefs: that our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Subftance of the Father, begotten before the worlds: and Man, of the Subftance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God, and Perfect Man: of a reafonable foul, and human flesh fubfifting; Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead and inferior to the Tather, as touching his Manhood. Who although he be God and Man; yet he is not two, but one Chrift; One; not by converfion of the Godhead into fleft: but lay taking of the Manhood into God; One altogether; not by confufion of Subftance: but by unity of Perfon For as the reasonable foul and fleth is one man: fo God and Man is one Chrift; Who fuffered for our falvation: defcended into hell, rote again the third day from the dead; He ascended into heaven; he fitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty from whence he fhall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whofe coming all men fhall rife again with their bodies: and fhall give account for their own works. And they that have done good fhall go into life everlasting: and they that have done evil, into everlafting fire. This is the Catholic Faith which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be faved. Glory be to the Father, &c. THE LITANY, Or General Supplication, to be fung or faid after Morning Prayer, upon Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and ut other times, when it Jhall be commanded by the Ordinary. GOD the Father of heaven: have mercy upen us mife rable finners. O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miferable finners. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miferable finners. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world: have mercy upon us miferable finners. O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miferable finners, O God the Holy Shaft, proceeding from the Father and the Son: have mercy upon us miferable finners. O holy, bleffed, and glorious Trinity, three Perfons, and one God have mercy upon us miferable finners. O holy, bleed, and glorious Trinity, three Perfons, and one God have mercy upon us miferable finners. Remember not, Lord, offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our fins: Spare us, good Lord, fpare thy people, whom thou haft redeemed with thy moft precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us, good Lord. From all evil and mifchief; from fin, from the crafts and affaults of the devil; from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation, Good Lord, deliver us. From all blindnels of heart; from pride, vain glory, and hy pocrify; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitablencís, Good Lord, deliver us. From fornication, and all other deadly fin; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil, Good Lord, deliver us. From lightning and tempeft; from plague, peftilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from fudden death, Good Lord, deliver us. From all fedition, privy confpiracy and rebellion; rebellion; from all falfe doctrine, herely, and fchifm; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation; by thy holy Nativity and Circumcifion; by thy Baptifm, Fafting, and Temptation, Good Lord, deliver us. By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Crofs and Paffion; by thy precious Death and Burial: by thy glorious Refurrection and Afcenfion; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lora, 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 finners do befeech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may pleafe thee to rule and govern thy holy Church univerfal in the right way; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to keep and firengthen in the true worthipping of thee, in righteoufnefs and holiness of life, thy fervant GEORGE, our moft gracious King and Governor; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to rule his heart in thy faith, fear, and love; and that he may evermore have affiance in thee, and ever feek thy honour and glory; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to be bis defender and keeper, giving him the victory over all his enemies; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to blefs and preferve our gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highneffes George Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and all the Royal Family; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to illuminate all Bithops, Priefts, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may fet it forth, and thew it accord ingly; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe 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 befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to bring into the way of truth all fuch as have erred and are deceived; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to firengthen fuch as do ftand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up them that fa, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that are defolate and oppreffed; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to have mercy upon all men; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, perfecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preferve to our ufe the kindly fruits of the earth, fo as in due time we may enjoy them; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may pleafe thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our fins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy Word; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. Son of God: we beseech thee Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us. O Lamb of God that takeft away the fins of the world; Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of God: that takeft away the fins of the world; Have mercy upon us. O. Chrift, hear us. O Chrift, hear us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Chrift, have mercy upon us. Chrift, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Then Jhall the Prieft, and the People with him, fay 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 trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amén. Priest. O Lord, deal not with us after our fins: Anfw. Neither reward us after our iniquities. Let us pray. O GOD, merciful Father, that defpifeft not the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the defire of fuch as be forrowful; Mercifully affift our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adverfities, whenfoever they opprefs us; and graciously hear us, that thofe evils, which the craft and fubtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, he brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodnefs they may be difperfed; that we thy fervants, being hurt by no perfecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. O Lord, arife, help us, and deliver us for thy Name's fake. GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers works that thou didst in their have declared unto us, the noble days, and in the old time before them. O Son of David, have mercy upon us. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Chrift. Graciously hear us, O Chrift; graciously hear us, O Lord Chrift. Prict. O Lord, let thy mercy be thewed upon us; Anfw. As we do put our trust in thee. Let us pray. WE E humbly befeech thee, Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities; and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all thofe evils that we most righteously have deferved; and grant, that in all our troubles we may put our whole fruit and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore ferve thee in holiness and purenets of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.. A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. A given us grace, at this time, LMIGHTY God, who haft with one accord to make our common fupplications unto thee; and doft promite, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfi! now, O Lord, the defires and petitions of thy fervants, as may be moft expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlafting. Amen. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. Chrift, and the love of God, HE grace of our Lord Jefus and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Litany. PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS To be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany, or of O true repentance thou wilt fend us fuch weather, as that we inay receive the fruits of the earth in due feafon; and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives, and for thy clemency to give thee praife and glory, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. GOD, heavenly Father, whofe gift it is, that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beafts increate, and fifhes du mulsply; Behold, we beicech thee, the afflictions of thy people; and grant that the scarcity and dearth, which we do now ino justly fuffer for our iniquity, may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheap nefs and plenty, for the love of Jefas Chrift our Lord; to whom with thee, and the Holy Ghof be all honour and glory now and for ever. Amen. |