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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 Ghoft; The Holy Catholic Church;
The Communion of Saints; The forgiveness of fins; The
refurrection of the body, And the life everlafting. Amen.
And after that, thefe Prayers following, all devoutly kneel-
ing; the Minifter first pronouncing with a loud voice
The Lord be with you:
Anfw. And with thy fpirit.
T Minifter. Let us pray.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Chrift, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Then the Minifter, 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 do liver us from evil. Amen.

Then the Priest, ftanding up, fhall fay,

O Lord, fhew thy mercy upon us;
Anfw. And grant us thy falvation.

ing fire all spiritual wickednefs, both the angels who tranfgreffed, and became apoftates, and ungodly, unjuft, lawless, and blafphemous men; and beftow life upon all thofe that are juft and holy, that have kept his commandments and abide in his love, either from the beginning of their lives, or time of their converfion; and invefting them with immortality and everlafting glory."

The other Creed is extracted from Archbishop Ufher's Diatriba de Symbolis. He found this creed in an ancient MS. Latin pfalter belonging to King Ethelftan. It runs thus:

Πιςεύω ως θεον πατέρα παντοκράτορα, και εις Χριςον Ιησεν υιον αυτού την μονογεννητον, τον Κύριον ημών, τον γεννηθεντα εκ Πνευματα αγιο και Μαρίας της παρθένε, τον επι Ποντιο Πιλατε ςαυρωθεντα, ταφεντα, τη τρίτη ημερα αναςαντα εκ νεκρών, αναβάντα εις τις εξανούς, καθημενον εν δεξια το πατρος όθεν έρχεται κρίναι ζώντας καὶ νεκρους. και εις πνεύμα αγιον αγι [αν εκκλη σταν] άφεσιν αμαρτιων, σαρκος αναςα [σιν.] Αμην.

The Lord be with you.] This and the followng verficle are literal tranflations from the ancient Greek Liturgies:

Ο Κύριος μετά παντων υμων
Και μετά τα πνεύματος σε.

Prieft. O Lord, fave the King;

Anfw. And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.
Pricft. Endue thy Minifters with righteoufnefs;
Anf. And make thy chofen people joyful.

Prieft. O Lord, fave thy people;

Anfw. And blefs thine inheritance.

Prieft. Give peace in our time, O Lord;

Anfw. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.

Prieft. O God, make clean our hearts within us;
Anfw. And take not thy holy fpirit from us.

¶ Then shall follow three Collects; the first of the day; the fecond for Peace; the third for Aid against all Perils, as bereafter followeth: which two laft Collects fhall be daily faid at Evening Prayer without alteration.

The fecond Collect at Evening Prayer.

God, from whom all holy defires, all good counfels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy fervants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be fet to obey thy commandments, and alfo that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietnefs, through the merits of Jefus Chrift our Saviour. Amen.

The third Collect, for Aid against all Perils. LIGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night, for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen.

The fecond Collect, &c.] This prayer is tranflated pretty clofely from the following prayer in the Sacramentarium of St. Gregory, which is prefented to the reader, that he may judge of the manner in which our Reformers made ufe of the liturgical compofitions of this great man:-" Deus a quo fanéta defideria, recta confilia, et jufta funt opera; da fervis tuis illam, quam mundus dare non poteft, pacem; ut, et corda noftra mandatis tuis dedita, et, hoftium fublatâ formidine, tempora fint tua protectione tranquilla, per Dominum noftrum Jefum Chriftum Salvatorem. Amen."

The third Collect This is for the most part taken from the Greek Euchologion. With it the Evening fervice ended, till the Review in Charles the Ild's reign; and the petitions it contains are highly appropriate to a concluding Evening Liturgy: It folicits for aid againit the perils and terrors of the night; and for the protection of that Being, under whofe

In Quires and Places where they fing, here followeth the Anthem.

¶A Prayer for the King's Majefty.

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 dwellers upon earth; moft heartily we befeech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE; and fo replen fh him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; ftrengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

A Prayer for the Royal Family.

Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness, we hum

bly befeech thee to blefs 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 thineeverlafting kingdom,thro' Jefus Chriftour Lord. Amen.

TA Prayer for the Clergy and People.

Almighty and everlasting God, who alone workest

great marvels; Send down upon our Bishops and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly please thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy bleffing: Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator Jefus Christ. Amen.

A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom.

Almighty God, who haft given us grace at this time.

with one accord to make our common fupplications

protecting compaffion only, we can fhelter ourfelves from the dangers of darkness; and with the conviction of whofe bleffing overshadowing us, we may "lay us down in peace to take our reft."

unto thee; and doft promife, that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requefts: Fulfil now, O Lord, the defires and petitions of thy fervants, as may be molt expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.

2 Cor. xiii. 14.

THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with

as all ever more.

Amen.

Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer throughout the Year.

The CREED of ST. ATHANASIUS.

Upon thefe Feafts; Chriftmas-day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Eafter-day, Afcenfion-day, Whitfunday, St. John Baptift, St. James, St. Bartholomew, St. Matthew, St. Simon and St. Jude, St. Andrew, and upon Trinity Sunday, fhall be fung or faid at Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles' Creed, this Confeffion of our Chriftian Faith, commonly called The Creed of St. Athanafius, by the Minifler and People standing.

WHO

Quicunque vult.

Hofoever will be faved: before all things it is neceffary that he hold the Catholic Faith.

The Creed of St. Athanafius]. It is uncertain who was the author of this fummary of the doctrine of the Trinity, and of the incarnation of our Lord Jefus Chrift; though the fuffrages of the learned unite in denying it to be the compofition of Athanafius.-G. Voffius, tom. vi. 516, 522. It is attributed with probability to Vigilius, the African, who flourished towards the clofe of the fifth century; and faid to have been originally compofed in Latin, and afterwards tranflated into Greek. In the rubrics of Edward and James the Ift's Common Prayer-Book, this fervice is not given to any particular author, but called fimply a confeffion of our Chriftian faith. A fenfible liturgical writer has offered the following ingenious apology for thofe of the clergy who omit the recitation of it in their churches. "Notwithstanding the excellence of the creed, the expediency of ufing it

Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he fhall perish everlastingly.

And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;

Neither confounding the perfons: nor dividing the fubftance.

For there is one Perfon of the Father, another of the Son: and another of the Holy Ghost.

But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft is all one: the Glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.

Such as the Father is, fuch is the Son: and fuch is the Holy Ghost.

The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate: and the Holy Ghost uncreate.

The Father incomprehenfible, the Son incomprehenfible: and the Holy Ghost incomprehenfible.

The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal;

And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehenfible, nor three uncreated: but one uncreated, and one incomprehenfible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghost Almighty;

And yet they are not three Almighties: but one Almighty.

So the Father is God, the Son is God: and the Holy Ghost is God;

And yet they are not three Gods: but one God.

So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord: and the Holy Ghost Lord;

And yet not three Lords: but one Lord.

in a public liturgy has been queftioned by divines, who both fteadily believed the doctrines it contains, and approved of the expofitions of them it delivers. I think it probable that they argued upon this principle: Our congregations being infected with no erroneous opinions in matters of faith; being in general happily unacquainted, not only with the nature but even with the very names of the various corruptions, against which this creed explicitly guards, there is lefs occafion in our public worship for the recital of fo minute an explication of points, which are confeffedly abitrufe.'-Shepherd.

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