From the Book of Common Praper. MORNING PRAYER. General Confession. We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep: We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts: We have offended against thy holy laws: We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders: ..... LITANY. Have mercy upon us miserable sin ners. That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy Holy Word. PRAYER, Occasional. And though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins.... COLLECT for the First Sunday in Advent. Give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness; For the Fourth Sunday in Advent. Through our sins and wickedness, we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us,..... For Christmas Day. Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by the Hol Spirit,..... For the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. By reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot stand upright;................ For the Second Sunday in Lent. Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves ;、、.... For Easter Day. We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires; so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect;. For the Fourth Sunday after Easter. O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ;... For the First Sunday after Trinity. And because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee.... For the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things.... For the Ninth Sunday after Trinity. That we who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will,... For the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service...... For the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall... For the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee;...... COMMUNION. General Confession. We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine Majesty,...... Collect after the Offertory. Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; ...... PUBLICK BAPTISM OF INFANTS. Forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in Sin; and that our Saviour saith, None can enter into the kingdom of God except he be regenerate, and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost;...... We call upon thee for this infant, that he coming to thy holy Baptism, may receive remission of his sins by spiritual Regeneration. O merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried that the new man may be raised up in him. We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit,......And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he being dead unto Sin,...... Baptism of such as are of riper Years. Forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in Sin, and that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and they that are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in Sin, committing many actual transgressions;...... And by the Baptism of thy well-beloved Son Jesus Christ in the river Jordan, didst sanctify the element of water, to the mystical washing away of Sin; We beseech thee, for thine infinite mercies, that thou wilt mercifully look upon these thy Servants; wash them and sanctify them with the Holy Ghost; that they being delivered from thy wrath, may, &c...... CATECHISM. Question. Who gave you that name? Answer. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. My good child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special Grace;................ Quest. What is the inward and spiritual grace (in Baptism)? Ans. A death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness: for being by nature born in Sin, and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace. CONFIRMATION. Almighty and everliving God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these For the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall.... For the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee;...... COMMUNION. General Confession. We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine Majesty,...... Collect after the Offertory. Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; ...... PUBLICK BAPTISM OF INFANTS. Forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in Sin; and that our Saviour saith, None can enter into the kingdom of God except he be regenerate, and born anew of Water and of the Holy Ghost;...... We call upon thee for this infant, that he coming to thy holy Baptism, may receive remission of his sins by spiritual Regeneration. O merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried that the new man may be raised up in him. We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit,..............And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he being dead unto Sin,.. |