Tuesday after First Sunday after Trinity
EVENING
Lord's Prayer and Preces
Our Father, whichwho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done inon earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them thatthose who trespass 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.
O Lord, open thou our lips.
And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Praise ye the Lord.
The Lord's Name be praised.
Ps. 47.
| O clap your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto God with the voice of melody. |
| For the Lord is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth. |
| He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. |
| He shall choose out an heritage for us, even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. |
| God is gone up with a merry noise, and the Lord with the sound of the trump. |
| O sing praises, sing praises unto our God; O sing praises, sing praises unto our King. |
| For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. |
| God reigneth over the heathen; God sitteth upon his holy seat. |
| The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham; for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield. |
| Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. |
Ps. 48.
| Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill. |
| The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the northside lieth the city of the great King; God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge. |
| For lo, the kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together. |
| They marvelled to see such things; they were astonished, and suddenly cast down. |
| Fear came there upon them, and sorrow, as upon a woman in her travail. |
| Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east wind. |
| Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God; God upholdeth the same for ever. |
| We wait for thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. |
| O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the world's end; thy right hand is full of righteousness. |
| Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad, because of thy judgements. |
| Walk about Sion, and go round about her; and tell the towers thereof. |
| Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after. |
| For this God is our God for ever and ever: he shall be our guide unto death. |
| Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. |
Ps. 49.
| O hear ye this, all ye people; ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world; |
| High and low, rich and poor, one with another. |
| My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of understanding. |
| I will incline mine ear to the parable, and shew my dark speech upon the harp. |
| Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness, and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about? |
| There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. |
| But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him; |
| For it cost more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone for ever; |
| Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave. |
| For he seeth that wise men also die, and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. |
| And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever, and that their dwellingplaces shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names. |
| Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them. |
| This is their foolishness, and their posterity praise their saying. |
| They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning: their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling. |
| But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell; for he shall receive me. |
| Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; |
| For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him. |
| For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man; and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee. |
| He shall follow the generation of his fathers, and shall never see light. |
| Man being in honour hath no understanding, but is compared unto the beasts that perish. |
| Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. |
First Lesson✤
| Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
| What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
| Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
| But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
| O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
| Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
| Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
| Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
| Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
| He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
| Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
| Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
| Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. |
| Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? |
| Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. |
| He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. |
| Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
| Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
| Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. |
| Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
| Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. |
| Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
| How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
| Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
| Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
| For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
| Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. |
| And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. |
MAGNIFICATFirst Canticle
My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth
all generations shall call me blessed.
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 showed strength with his arm;
he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat,
and hath exalted the humble and meek.
He hath filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He remembering his mercy, hath holpen his servant Israel;
as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed, for ever.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Second Lesson✤
| Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. |
| Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. |
| I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you. |
| Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. |
| For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. |
| Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; |
| And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. |
| For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. |
| Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. |
| For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. |
| For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. |
| Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. |
| Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. |
| For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. |
| And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. |
| I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things. |
NUNC DIMITTISSecond Canticle
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
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 Israel.
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Collect of the Day
O God, the strength of all them thatthose who put their trust in thee, Mercifully accept our prayers; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments, we may please thee, both in will and deed, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Collect for Peace
O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
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 Jesus Christ. Amen.
