Friday after Seventh 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. 119:1-8.
| Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, and walk in the law of the Lord. |
| Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and seek him with their whole heart. |
| For they who do no wickedness walk in his ways. |
| Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments. |
| O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes! |
| So shall I not be confounded, while I have respect unto all thy commandments. |
| I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, when I shall have learned the judgements of thy righteousness. |
| I will keep thy ceremonies; O forsake me not utterly. |
| 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. 119:9-16.
| Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? even by ruling himself after thy word. |
| With my whole heart have I sought thee; O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments. |
| Thy words have I hid within my heart, that I should not sin against thee. |
| Blessed art thou, O Lord; O teach me thy statutes. |
| With my lips have I been telling of all the judgements of thy mouth. |
| I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies, as in all manner of riches. |
| I will talk of thy commandments, and have respect unto thy ways. |
| My delight shall be in thy statutes, and I will not forget thy word. |
| 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. 119:17-24.
| O do well unto thy servant; that I may live, and keep thy word. |
| Open thou mine eyes; that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. |
| I am a stranger upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me. |
| My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath alway unto thy judgements. |
| Thou hast rebuked the proud; and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments. |
| O turn from me shame and rebuke; for I have kept thy testimonies. |
| Princes also did sit and speak against me; but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes. |
| For thy testimonies are my delight, and my counsellors. |
| 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. 119:25-32.
| My soul cleaveth to the dust; O quicken thou me, according to thy word. |
| I have acknowledged my ways, and thou heardest me: O teach me thy statutes. |
| Make me to understand the way of thy commandments; and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. |
| My soul melteth away for very heaviness; comfort thou me according unto thy word. |
| Take from me the way of lying, and cause thou me to make much of thy law. |
| I have chosen the way of truth, and thy judgements have I laid before me. |
| I have stuck unto thy testimonies; O Lord, confound me not. |
| I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou hast set my heart at liberty. |
| 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✤
| The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying, |
| Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. |
| For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; |
| They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. |
| For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies. |
| Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: |
| Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. |
| Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. |
| For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. |
| And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? |
| Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; |
| And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: |
| Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. |
| Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; |
| But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. |
| Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. |
| For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. |
| And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. |
| O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. |
| Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? |
| Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord. |
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✤
| This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. |
| For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, |
| Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, |
| Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; |
| Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. |
| For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, |
| Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
| Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. |
| But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. |
| But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, |
| Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. |
| Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. |
| But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. |
| But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; |
| And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: |
| That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. |
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
Grant, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, 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.
