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 | For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. |
| 2 | For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: |
| 3 | Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air, |
| 4 | And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof. |
| 5 | For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again. |
| 6 | Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. |
| 7 | Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us: |
| 8 | Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered: |
| 9 | Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this. |
| 10 | Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged. |
| 11 | Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth. |
| 12 | Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education. |
| 13 | He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord. |
| 14 | He was made to reprove our thoughts. |
| 15 | He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. |
| 16 | We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father. |
| 17 | Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. |
| 18 | For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies. |
| 19 | Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience. |
| 20 | Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected. |
| 21 | Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them. |
| 22 | As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls. |
| 23 | For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. |
| 24 | Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it. |
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 | It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. |
| 2 | I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. |
| 3 | And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) |
| 4 | How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. |
| 5 | Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. |
| 6 | For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. |
| 7 | And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. |
| 8 | For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. |
| 9 | And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. |
| 10 | Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. |
| 11 | I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. |
| 12 | Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. |
| 13 | For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. |
| 14 | Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. |
| 15 | And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. |
| 16 | But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. |
| 17 | Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? |
| 18 | I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? |
| 19 | Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. |
| 20 | For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: |
| 21 | And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. |
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 God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; Mercifully grant, that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, 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.