Hear alfo what S. Paul faith: This is a true faying, and worthy of all men to be received, That Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners. 1 Tim. 1. 15. Hear alfo what S. John faith: fus Chrift the righteous, and he After which the Prieft fall the Lord. Prieft. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. Aniw. It is meet and right fo to do. Then fhall the Prieft turn to the at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, *Holy Father, Almighty, Everlafting God. *These words (Holy Father) must be omitted on Trinity Sunday. Here fball follow the Proper Preface, according to the time, if there be any fp cially appointed: or elfe immediately fhall follows, Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven; we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praifing thee, and faying, Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hofts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord moft high. Amen. Proper Prefaces. Ecaufe thou didft give Jefus born as at this time for us; who Ghoft, was made very man of the fubftance of the Virgin Mary his mother; and that without fpot of fin, to make us clean from all fin. Therefore with Angels, &c. Upon Eafter-day, and Seven days after. BUT chiefly are we bound to praife thee for the glorious Refurrection of thy Son Jefus Christ our Lord: for he is the very Pafchal Lamb which was offered for us, and hath taken away the fin of the world; who by his death hath deftroyed death, and by his rifing to life again hath reftored to us everlasting life. Therefore with Angels, &c. Upon Afcenfion-day, and feven days after. Trved Son Jefus Chrift our Lord; who after his moft glorious Refurrection manifeftly appeared to all his Apoftles, and in their fight afcended up into heaven to prepare a place for us; that where he is, thither we might also afcend, and reign with him in glory. 'Therefore with Angels, c. "Hrough thy most dearly be Upon Whit-funday, and fix days after. Hrough Jefus Chrift our Tord: according to whofe moft true promife, the Holy Ghoft came down as at this time from heaven with a fudden great found, as it had been a mighty wind, in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apoftles to teach them, and to lead them to all truth giving them both the gift of divers languages, and alfo bold nefs with fervent zeal, conftant ly to preach the Gospel unto al nations; whereby we have been brought out of darkness and erro error into the clear light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy Son Jefus Chrift. Therefore with Angels, &c. Upon the Feast of Trinity only. W Lord; not one only per HO art one God, one fon, but three perfons in one fubftance. For that which we believe of the glory of the Father, the fame we believe of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, without any difference or inequality. Therefore with Angels, &c. After each of which Prefaces fball immediately be fung or faid, ΤΗ "Herefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name: evermore praifing thee, and faying, Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts, Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high. Amen. Then fhall the Prief, kneeling down at the Lord's Table, fay in the Name of all them that fhall receive the Communion, this Prayer following: WE do not prefume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy fo much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the fame Lord, whofe property is always to have mercy: Grant us there. fore, gracious Lord, fo to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift, and to drink his blood, that our finful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our fouls washed through his moft precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen. When the Prieft, ftanding before the Table, bath jo ordered the Bread and Wine, that be may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread before the People, and take the Cup into bis bands; be fall fay the Prayer of Confecration, as followeth." Almighty God, our heaven ly Father, who of thy tender mercy didit give thine only Son Jefus Chrift to fuffer death upon the crofs for our redemp tion; who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and fufficient facrifice, oblation, and fatisfaction for the fins of the whole world; and did inftitute, and in his holy Gofpel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death, until his coming again; Hear us, O merciful Father, we moft humbly befeech thee; and grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift's holy inftitution, in remembrance of his death and paffion, may be partakers of his most bleffed Body and Blood: Who in the fame night that he was betrayed (a) took bread; (a) Here the Prieft and when he had is to take the Paten into his band; given thanks, (b) (b) And bire to he brake it; and break the bread. gave it to his difciples, faying, Take, eat, (c) this (c) And here to is my body which lay his band upon is given for you, all the bread. of do this in remembrance me. Likewise after Supper (d) he take the cup inte took the cup; and bis band. when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, (e) And bere to faying, Drink ye all of this, for this (e) is my blood of the New Tefta every vellet, be it coulice or flagonin which there is any wine to be confewated. lay his band upon ment, ment, which is fhed for you and for many for the remiffion of fins: Do this, as oft as ye fhall drink it, in remembrance of me. omen. Then fhall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kinds himself, and then proceed to deliver the fame to the BiShops, Priefts, and Deacons in like manner (if any be prefent and after that to the people alfo in order into their hands, all meekly kneeling. And when he delivereth the Bread to any one, be fhall jay; THE HE Body of our Lord Jefus Chift, which was given for thee, preferve thy body and foul unto everlasting life. Take and eat this in remembrance that Chrift died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving. And the Minifter that delivereth the cup to any one, shall fay; THE HE Blood of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which was fhed for thee, preferve thy body and foul unto everlasting life. Drink this in remembrance that Chrift's Blood was fhed for thee, and be thankful. If the Confecrated Bread or Wine be all spent before all have communicated, the Prieft is to confecrate more, according to the Form before prefcribed: beginning at Our Saviour Chrift in the fame night, &c.] for the bleffing of the Bread; and at [Likewife after Supper, &c.] for the bleffing of the Cup. When all bave communicated, the Minifter fhall return to the Lord's Table, and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the confecrated Elements, covering the fame with a fair linen cloth, 2 Then fhall the Prieft fay the"Lord's Prayer, the People repeating after him every Petition. Ο UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpafs 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. After fhall be faid, as followerb. Lord and heavenly Father, we thy humble fervants entirely defire thy fatherly goodnefs, mercifully to accept this our facrifice of praife and thankf giving; most humbly befeeching thee to grant, that by the merits and death of thy Son Jefus Chrift, and through faith in his blood, we and all thy whole Church may obtain remiffion of our fins, and all other benefits of his paffion. And here we offer and prefent unto thee, O Lord, ourfelves, our fouls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively facrifice unto thee; humbly befeeching thee, that all we who are partakers of this holy Communion, may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction. And although we be unworthy, through our manifold fins, to offer unto thee any facrifice; yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and fervice; not weighing our merits, but pardoning our offences, through Jefus Christ our Lord; by whom, and with whom, in the unity of the Holy Ghoft, all honour and glory be unto thee, O Father Almighty, world without end. Amen. Or this. For thou only art holy, thou Amighty and everliving God, only art the Lord, thou only, most heartily thank thee, for that thou doft vouchfafe to feed us, who have duly received thefe holy Myfteries, with the spiritual food of the moft precious Body and Blood of thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift; and doft affure us thereby of thy favour and goodness towards us; and that we are very members incorporate in the myftical Body of thy Son, which is the bleffed company of all faithful people; and are alfo heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom, by the merits of the most precious death and paffion of thy dear Son. And we moft humbly befeech thee, O heavenly Father, fo to affilt us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship, and do all fuch good works as thou haft prepared for us to walk in, through Jefus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghoit, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. Then fhall be faid or fung, Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We praife thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son Jefu Chrift; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takeft away the fins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takeft away the fins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takeft away the fins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that fitteft O Chrift, with the Holy Ghoft, art moft high in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Then the Prieft (or Bishop if be be prefent, fhall let them de. part with this Bleffing: HE peace of God, which ་ Tpaffeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jefus Chrift our Lord: and the bleffing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen. Collects to be faid after the Of fertory, when there is no Communion, every fuch day one, or more; and the fame may be faid alfo, as often as occafion fhall ferve, after the Collect's either of Morning or Evening Prazer, Communion, or Litany, by the dijcretion of the Minifter. A Sift us mercifully, O Lord, in these our fupplications and prayers, and difpofe the way of thy fervants towards the attainment of everlasting falva tion; that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life, they may ever be defended by thy moft gracious and ready help, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. fafting God, vouchfate, Almighty Lord, and ever we befeech thee, to direct, fanétify, and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments; that through thy moft mighty protection, bath here and ever, we may be preferved in body and foul, through our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen. at the right hand of God the GRANT, webefeech thee, Ade Father have mercy upon us. mighty God, that the words . which we have heard this day with our outward ears, may through thy grace be fo grafted inwardly in our hearts, that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living, to the hon our and praife of thy Name, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. PRevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy moft gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help, that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlatting life, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Lmighty God, the fountain of all wifdom, who know eft our neceffities before we afk, and our ignorance in afking; we beseech thee to have compaffion upon our infirmities; and thofe things which for our unworthinefs we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchfafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Almighty God, who haft promifed to hear the petitions of them that afk in thy Son's Name; We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears .to us that have made now our prayers and fupplications unto thee, and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will, may effectually be obtained, to the relief of our neceffity, and to the fetting forth of thy glory, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Upon the Sundays and other Hely-days (if there be no Communion) shall be faid all that is appointed at the Communion, until the end of the general Prayer [For the whole ftate of Chrift's Church militant here in earth together with one or more of these Collects last before rebearfed, concluding with the Bleffing. And there fhall be no celebration of the Lord's Supper, except there be a convenient number to communicate with the Priest, according to bis dif cretion. And if there be not above Twenty Perfons in the Parish, of difcretion to receive the Communion; yet there fhall be no Communion, except four (or three at the leaft) communicate with the Prieft.' And in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Colleges, where there are many Pricfts and Deacons, they shall all receive the Communion with the Prieft every Sunday at the leaft, except they have a reasonable cause to the contrary. And to take away all occafion of diffention, and fuperftition, which any Perfon bath or might have concerning the Bread and Wine, it ball fuf fice that the Bread be fuch as is ufual to be eaten ; but the beft and pureft Wheat Bread that conveniently may be gotten. And if any of the Bread and Wine remain unconfecrated, the Curate fball have it to his own ufe: but if any remain of that which was confecrated, it fall not be carried out of the Courch, but the Prieft, and fuch otber of the Communicants as be fall then call unto him, fhall immediately after the Bleffing, reverently eat and drink the fame. The Bread and Wine for the Communion fhall be provided by the Curate and the Church wardens at the charges of the Parish. And |