Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak 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 same, by his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God; yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me with a pure heart, and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me:
Almighty and most merciful Father, 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: Spare thou themthose, O God, whichwho confess their faults: Restore thou them thatthose who are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name. Amen.
Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; and, hath given power and commandment to his Ministers, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins:. He pardoneth and absolveth all them thatthose who truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel. 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 present, and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy; so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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.
| 1 | Save me, O God; * for the waters are come in, even unto my soul. |
| 2 | I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is; * I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me. |
| 3 | I am weary of crying; my throat is dry; * my sight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God. |
| 4 | They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; * they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. |
| 5 | I paid them the things that I never took: * God, thou knowest my simpleness, and my faults are not hid from thee. |
| 6 | Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause; * let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O Lord God of Israel. |
| 7 | And why? for thy sake have I suffered reproof; * shame hath covered my face. |
| 8 | I am become a stranger unto my brethren, * even an alien unto my mother's children. |
| 9 | For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me; * and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me. |
| 10 | I wept, and chastened myself with fasting, * and that was turned to my reproof. |
| 11 | I put on sackcloth also, * and they jested upon me. |
| 12 | They that sit in the gate speak against me, * and the drunkards make songs upon me. |
| 13 | But, Lord, I make my prayer unto thee * in an acceptable time. |
| 14 | Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, * even in the truth of thy salvation. |
| 15 | Take me out of the mire, that I sink not; * O let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
| 16 | Let not the waterflood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; * and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
| 17 | Hear me, O Lord, for thy lovingkindness is comfortable; * turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies. |
| 18 | And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: * O haste thee, and hear me. |
| 19 | Draw nigh unto my soul, and save it; * O deliver me, because of mine enemies. |
| 20 | Thou hast known my reproof, my shame, and my dishonour: * mine adversaries are all in thy sight. |
| 21 | Thy rebuke hath broken my heart; I am full of heaviness: * I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. |
| 22 | They gave me gall to eat; * and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink. |
| 23 | Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal; * and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling. |
| 24 | Let their eyes be blinded, that they see not; * and ever bow thou down their backs. |
| 25 | Pour out thine indignation upon them, * and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them. |
| 26 | Let their habitation be void, * and no man to dwell in their tents. |
| 27 | For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; * and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded. |
| 28 | Let them fall from one wickedness to another, * and not come into thy righteousness. |
| 29 | Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, * and not be written among the righteous. |
| 30 | As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness, * thy help, O God, shall lift me up. |
| 31 | I will praise the Name of God with a song, * and magnify it with thanksgiving. |
| 32 | This also shall please the Lord * better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
| 33 | The humble shall consider this, and be glad: * seek ye after God, and your soul shall live. |
| 34 | For the Lord heareth the poor, * and despiseth not his prisoners. |
| 35 | Let heaven and earth praise him: * the sea, and all that moveth therein. |
| 36 | For God will save Sion, and build the cities of Judah, * that men may dwell there, and have it in possession. |
| 37 | The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it; * and they that love his Name shall dwell therein. |
| † | 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. |
| 1 | Haste thee, O God, to deliver me; * make haste to help me, O Lord. |
| 2 | Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; * let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish me evil. |
| 3 | Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame * that cry over me, There, there. |
| 4 | But let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee: * and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway, The Lord be praised. |
| 5 | As for me, I am poor and in misery: * haste thee unto me, O God. |
| 6 | Thou art my helper and my redeemer: * O Lord, make no long tarrying. |
| † | 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. |
| 1 | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
| 2 | Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. |
| 3 | I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
| 4 | Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
| 5 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
| 6 | Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
| 7 | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
| 8 | He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
| 9 | The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
| 10 | His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
| 11 | His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
| 12 | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| 13 | Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
| 14 | Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
| 15 | He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
| 16 | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| 17 | He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
| 18 | That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. |
| 19 | Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
| 20 | Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
| 21 | There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. |
| 22 | In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
| 23 | When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. |
| 24 | He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
| 25 | It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
| 26 | All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. |
| 27 | The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. |
| 28 | The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
| 29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
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.
| 1 | Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: |
| 2 | But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. |
| 3 | For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: |
| 4 | (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) |
| 5 | Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; |
| 6 | And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. |
| 7 | Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. |
| 8 | For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: |
| 9 | That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. |
| 10 | For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. |
| 11 | Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. |
| 12 | For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. |
| 13 | But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. |
| 14 | For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: |
| 15 | Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, |
| 16 | To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. |
| 17 | But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. |
| 18 | For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. |
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.
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth 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 Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body; And the Life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord be with you:
And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
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. Amen.
O Lord, show thy mercy upon us;
And grant us thy salvation.
O Lord, save the State;
And mercifully hear us, when we call upon thee.
Endue thy Ministers with righteousness;
And make thy chosen people joyful.
O Lord, save thy people;
And bless thine inheritance.
Give peace in our time, O Lord;
Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.
O God, make clean our hearts within us;
And take not thy Holy Spirit from us.
O Lord, who never failest to help and govern themthose whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love; Keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection of thy good providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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.
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.
O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world; We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace. Grant to [—, and to] all in Authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will. Fill them with the love of truth and righteousness; and make them ever mindful of their calling to serve this people in thy fear; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
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 blessing: Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator Jesus Christ. Amen.
Most gracious God, we humbly beseech thee, as for this nation in general, so especially for the Legislature at this time assembled: That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy people; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety may be established among us for all generations. These and all other necessaries, for them, for us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men, that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all Nations. More especially we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians, may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness, all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities, giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions: And this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen.
Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.