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degree of his former health. Bless- being restored to health of body, ed be thy name, that thou didst not vigour of mind, and cheerfulness of forsake him in his sickness; but spirit, he may be able to go to thine didst visit him with comforts from house, to offer thee an oblation above; didst support him in pa- with great gladness; and to bless tience and submission to thy will; thy holy name for all thy goodand, at last, didst send him season-ness towards him, through Jesus able relief. Perfect, we beseech Christ our Saviour: To whom thee, this thy mercy towards him; with thee and the Holy Spirit, be and prosper the means which shall all honour and glory world without be made use of for his cure: That end. Amen.

THE COMMUNION OF THE SICK.

Forasmuch as all mortal men are subject to many sudden perils, diseases, and sicknesses, and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life; therefore, to the intent they may be always in readiness to die, whensoever it shall please Almighty God to call them, the Ministers shall diligently from time to time (but especially in the time of pestilence, or other infectious sickness) exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ, when it shall be publicly administered in the Church; that so doing, they may, in case of sudden visitation, have the less cause to be disquieted for lack of the same. But if the sick person be not able to come to the Church, and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his house; then he must give timely notice to the Minister, signifying also how many there are to communicate with him (which shall be two at the least;) and all things necessary being prepared, the Minister shall there celebrate the Holy Communion, beginning with the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, here following:

The Collect.

The Epistle. Heb. xii. 5. Y son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor correct those whom thou dost love, faint when thou art rebuked of and chastise every one whom thou him. For whom the Lord loveth, dost receive; we beseech thee to he chasteneth; and scourgeth evehave mercy upon this thy servant ry son whom he receiveth. visited with thine hand; and to The Gospel. St. John v. 24.

A Maker of mankind, who
LMIGHTY everliving God; MY

grant that he may take his sickness

TERILY, verily, I say unto you,

patiently, and recover his bodilyHe that heareth my word, and health, if it be thy gracious will; and

that whensoever his soul shall depart believeth on him that sent me, hath from the body, it may be without everlasting life, and shall not come spot presented unto thee, through into condemnation; but is passed Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. from death unto life.

¶ After which the Minister shall proceed according to the Form before prescribed for the Holy Communion, beginning at these words, Ye who do truly, &c.

At the time of the distribution of the Holy Sacrament, the Minister shall first receive the Communion himself, and after minister unto those who are appointed to communicate with the sick, and last of all to the sick person.

But if a man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, or for want of warning in due time to the Minister, or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, the Minister shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and steadfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him, and shed his blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefor, he doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the sick Person is visited and receiveth the Holy Communion all at one time, then the Minister, for more expedition, shall cut off the Form of the Visitation at the Psalm, and go straight to the Communion.

¶ In the times of contagious sickness or disease, when none of the Parish or neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the sick in their houses, for fear of the infection; upon special request of the diseased, the Minister alone may communicate with him.

THE ORDER FOR

THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

Here is to be noted, that the Office ensuing is not to be used for any unbaptized Adults, any who die excommunicate, or who have laid violent hands upon themselves. The Minister, meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it either into the Church, or towards the Grave, shall say, or sing,

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AM the resurrection and the his beauty to consume away, like life, saith the Lord; he that be-as it were a moth fretting a garlieveth in me, though he were ment: Every man therefore is but dead, yet shall he live: And who- vanity. soever liveth and believeth in me,

Hear my prayer, O Lord; and shall never die. St. John xi. 25, 26. with thine ears consider my callKNOW that my Redeemer living: Hold not thy peace at my eth, and that he shall stand at tears.

the latter day upon the earth: And For I am a stranger with thee, though after my skin worms de- and a sojourner; as all my fathers stroy this body, yet in my flesh were.

shall I see God; whom I shall see 0 spare me a little, that I may for myself, and mine eyes shall be-recover my strength; before I go hold, and not another. Job xix. hence, and be no more seen. 25, 26, 27. Lord, thou hast been our refuge, VE brought nothing into this from one generation to another. world, and it is certain we Before the mountains can carry nothing out. The Lord brought forth, or ever the earth gave, and the Lord hath taken and the world were made, thou away; blessed be the name of the art God from everlasting, and Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job i. 21. world without end.

After they are come into the Church, shall be said or sung the following Anthem, taken from the 39th and 90th Psalms.

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Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest, Come

LORD, let me know my end, again, ye children of men. and the number of my days; For a thousand years in thy sight that I may be certified how long I are but as yesterday; seeing that is have to live. past as a watch in the night.

As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep; and fade away suddenly like the grass.

Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long; and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man liv- In the morning it is green, and ing is altogether vanity. groweth up; but in the evening For man walketh in a vain it is cut down, dried up, and withshadow, and disquieteth himself in ered.

vain; he heapeth up riches, and For we consume away in thy cannot tell who shall gather them. displeasure; and are afraid at thy And now, Lord, what is my wrathful indignation. hope? Truly my hope is even in thee.

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee; and our secret sins in

Deliver me from all mine offen-the light of thy countenance. ces; and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: We bring our When thou with rebukes dost years to an end, as it were a tale chasten man for sin, thou makest that is told.

The days of our age are three-your rejoicing, which I have in score years and ten; and though Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. men be so strong that they come If after the manner of men I have to fourscore years, yet is their fought with beasts at Ephesus, strength then but labour and sor- what advantageth it me, if the dead row; so soon passeth it away, and rise not? Let us eat and drink, we are gone. for to-morrow we die. Be not deSo teach us to number our days, ceived: Evil communications corthat we may apply our hearts unto rupt good manners. Awake to wisdom. righteousness, and sin not: for Glory be to the Father, and to some have not the knowledge of the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; God. I speak this to your shame. As it was in the beginning, is But some man will say, How are now, and ever shall be, world with- the dead raised up? and with .out end. Amen. what body do they come? Thou

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1 Cor. xv. 20.

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Then shall follow the Lesson, taken out of the fool, that which thou sowest is not fifteenth Chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. quickened, except it die. that which thou sowest, thou sowOW is Christ risen from the est not that body that shall be, but dead, and become the first bare grain; it may chance of fruits of them that slept. For wheat, or of some other grain. since by man came death, by man But God giveth it a body as it hath came also the resurrection of the pleased him; and to every seed his dead. For as in Adam all die, own body. All flesh is not the even so in Christ shall all be made same flesh; but there is one kind alive. But every man in his own of flesh of men, another flesh of order: Christ the first fruits; af-beasts, another of fishes, and anterwards they that are Christ's, other of birds. There are also at his coming. Then cometh the celestial bodies, and bodies terresend, when he shall have delivered trial: but the glory of the celesthe kingdom to God, even the tial is one, and the glory of the Father; when he shall have put terrestrial is another. There is down all rule, and all authority, one glory of the sun, and another and power. For he must reign glory of the moon, and another till he hath put all enemies under glory of the stars: For one star his feet. The last enemy that differeth from another star in gloshall be destroyed is death: for he ry. So also is the resurrection of hath put all things under his feet. the dead. It is sown in corrupBut when he saith all things are tion; it is raised in incorruption: put under him, it is manifest that It is sown in dishonour; it is he is excepted which did put all raised in glory: It is sown in weakthings under him. And when all ness; it is raised in power: It is things shall be subdued unto him, sown a natural body; it is raised a then shall the Son also himself be spiritual body. There is a natural subject unto him that put all body, and there is a spiritual body. things under him, that God may And so it is written, The first man be all in all. Else what shall they Adam was made a living soul, the do which are baptized for the last Adam was made a quickening dead, if the dead rise not at all? spirit. Howbeit, that was not first Why are they then baptized for which is spiritual, but that which the dead? And why stand we in is natural; and afterward that leopardy every hour? I protest by which is spiritual. The first

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man is of the earth, earthy: The Yet, O Lord God most holy, O second man is the Lord from hea-Lord most mighty, O holy and ven. As is the earthy, such are most merciful Saviour, deliver us they that are earthy: and as is the not into the bitter pains of eternal heavenly, such are they also that death. are heavenly. And as we have Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets borne the image of the earthy, we of our hearts: shut not thy mercishall also bear the image of the ful ears to our prayers; but spare heavenly. Now this I say, bre-us, Lord most holy, O God most thren, that flesh and blood cannot mighty, O holy and merciful Sainherit the kingdom of God; nei-viour, thou most worthy Judge ther doth corruption inherit incor-eternal, suffer us not, at our last ruption. Behold, I show you a hour, for any pains of death to fall mystery: We shall not all sleep, from thee. but we shall all be changed, in a Then, while the earth shall be cast upon the body moment, in the twinkling of an by some standing by, the Minister shall say, eye, at the last trump: For the NORASMUCH as it hath trumpet shall sound, and the dead pleased Almighty God, in his shall be raised incorruptible, and wise Providence, to take out of we shall be changed. For this this world the Soul of our deceased corruptible must put on incorrup-Brother, we therefore commit his tion, and this mortal must put on Body to the ground; earth to earth, immortality. So when this cor-ashes to ashes, dust to dust: look ruptible shall have put on incor-ing for the general resurrection in ruption, and this mortal shall have the last Day, and the life of the put on immortality, then shall be World to come, through our Lord brought to pass the saying that is Jesus Christ; at whose second written, Death is swallowed up coming in glorious Majesty to in victory. O death, where is thy judge the World, the Earth and sting? O grave, where is thy vic-the Sea shall give up their Dead; tory? The sting of death is sin, and the corruptible Bodies of those and the strength of sin is the law. who sleep in him shall be changed, But thanks be to God, which and made like unto his own giveth us the victory through our glorious Body; according to the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, mighty working whereby he is able my beloved brethren, be ye stead- to subdue all things unto himself. fast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. When they come to the grave, while the Corpse

sung or said,

¶ Then shall be said, or sung,

HEARD a voice from heaven,

henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; even so saith

is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be the Spirit; for they rest from their AN, that is born of a woman, labours. Rev. xiv. 13.

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Lord's Prayer. and is full of misery.. He cometh OUR Father, who art in Hea

up, and is cut down like a flower ; ven, Hallowed be thy Name; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and Thy Kingdom come; thy Will be never continueth in one stay. done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; In the midst of life we are in Give us this day our daily bread; death Of whom may we seek for And forgive us our trespasses, as we succour, but of thee, O Lord, who forgive those who trespass against for our sins art justly displeased? us; And lead us not into temp

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tation; But deliver us from evil. soever liveth and believeth in him, Amen. shall not die eternally; who also ¶ Then the Minister shall say one or both of the hath taught us, by his holy Apostle following Prayers, at his discretion. St. Paul, not to be sorry, as men

ALMIGHTY God, with whom without hope, for those who sleep

do live the spirits of those in him; we humbly beseech thee, who depart hence in the Lord; O Father, to raise us from the and with whom the souls of the death of sin unto the life of rightfaithful, after they are delivered eousness; that when we shall defrom the burden of the flesh, are part this life, we may rest in him; in joy and felicity; we give thee and that at the general resurrechearty thanks for the good exam- tion in the last day, we may be ples of all those thy servants, who, found acceptable in thy sight; and having finished their course in receive that blessing, which thy faith, do now rest from their la- well-beloved Son shall then probours. And we beseech thee, that nounce to all who love and fear we, with all those who are de- thee, saying, Come, ye blessed parted in the true faith of thy holy children of my Father, receive the name, may have our perfect con- kingdom prepared for you from the summation and bliss, both in body beginning of the world: Grant this, and soul, in thy eternal and ever- we beseech thee, O merciful Falasting glory, through Jesus Christ ther, through Jesus Christ our Meour Lord. diator and Redeemer. Amen.

Amen.

0 MERCIFUL God, the Fa-THE grace of our Lord Jesus

ther of our Lord Jesus Christ, Christ, and the love of God, who is the resurrection and the life; and the fellowship of the Holy in whom whosoever believeth, Ghost, be with us all evermore. shall live, though he die; and who- Amen.

THE

Thanksgiving of Women after Child-Birth,

COMMONLY CALLED

THE CHURCHING OF WOMEN.

This Service, or the concluding Prayer alone, as it stands among the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings, may be used at the discretion of the Minister.

The Woman, at the usual time after her Delivery, shall come into the Church decently apparelled, and there shall kneel down in some convenient place, as hath been accustomed, or as the Ordinary shall direct: And then the Priest shall say unto her,

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NORASMUCH as as it hath That he hath inclined his ear pleased Almighty God, of unto me: Therefore will I call his goodness, to give you safe de- upon him as long as I live. liverance, and to preserve you in I found trouble and heaviness. the great danger of child-birth; and I called upon the name of the you shall therefore give hearty Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, dethanks unto God, and say,

Then shall the Minister say the following Hymn, taken from the 116th Psalm.

Dilexi, quoniam.

liver my soul.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

What reward shall I give unto AM well pleased that the Lord the Lord, for all the benefits that hath heard the voice of my he hath done unto me? prayer;

I will receive the cup of salva

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