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Q. After the "Gloria Patri," how do we continue praising GOD?

A. In the 95th Psalm, and the Psalms appointed for the day.

Q. What other parts of the service come under the head of "Praise ?"

A. The Psalms and Hymns used after each Lesson; and the singing Psalms.

Q. What is repeated after each Psalm?

A. The Gloria Patri.

Q. What follows the Psalms for the day?

A. The Lessons.

Q. From whence are they taken?

A. The first Lesson from the Old Testament and the second Lesson from the New.

Q. Under what head does this come?

A. Hearing God's word.

Q. What other parts of the service come under this head?

A. The sentences at the beginning :-also the Commandments, and the Epistle and Gospel in the Communion Service.

Q. What is done after each Lesson?

A. The minister and people together repeat a Psalm or Hymn.

Q. What follows the Psalm after the second Lesson?

A. The minister and congregation repeat the creed.

Q. What is the "Creed?"
A. A declaration of our

"faith."

Q. What does it contain?

A. All that we are bound to believe as Christians. Q. Why is it most proper that we should repeat the Creed standing?

A. To shew that we are ready to stand up in defence of our faith.

Q. What is said after the Creed, before we kneel down?

A. Two sentences between the minister and people. Q. How does the service then go on?

A. With prayer, "all kneeling."

Q. What is first repeated?

A. The Lord's Prayer, and some sentences.
Q. In what manner?

A. By the minister and congregation.

Q. What follows these sentences?

A. The Collect for the day, and two other Collects.

Q. What follows these three Collects?

A. The Litany.

Q. What is the Litany?

A. A general Prayer, including all our wants, for soul and body.

Q. How is it to be repeated?

A. By the minister and people in turn.

Q. Is the Litany always used?

A. No; only in the morning service on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Q. What is used instead of it at afternoon or evening service?

A. Prayers for the king, the royal family, for the clergy, and for all conditions of men.

Q. Are any Prayers used here besides the Litany? A. Yes, sometimes some occasional Prayers, and always the general thanksgiving.

Q. What do you mean by occasional prayers?

A. Prayers which are only used on particular occasions.

Q. What do you mean by the "general thanksgiving."

A. Thanks to God for all his mercies to ourselves and all mankind.

Q. How do we go on immediately after the Litany? A. With some supplications between the minister and people.

Q. What else is repeated together?

A. The Lord's Prayer, and two other sentences.

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Q. What follows?

A. Some more Prayers and sentences.

Q. After the thanksgiving and any occasional Prayers, how does this part of the service conclude? A. With the Prayer of St. Chrysostom and another short one.

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Q. What is the subject of the Prayer of St. Chry

sostom.

A. That God will grant our petitions as he sees most fit for us.

Q. For what is the last short Prayer?

A. To intreat that the Holy Trinity may be with us and assist us evermore.

Q. From whence is it taken?

A. St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians. Q. What should the congregation do at the end of this part of the service?

A. Join in singing a Psalm.

Q. What is the next part of the morning service? A. The Communion Service.

Q. In what posture ought we then to be?

A. Kneeling.

Q. How does it begin?

A. With the Lord's Prayer and a Collect.

Q. What is next done?

A. The minister reads the Ten Commandments.

Q. What are the people to do?

A. Listen attentively; and pray between each for God's pardon and help to keep them.

Q. What comes next?

A. A Prayer for the king, and the Collect for the day.

Q. What does the minister next read?

A. The Epistle.

Q. From whence is it taken?

A. From the epistles written by the apostles to dif

ferent people.

Q. What is an Epistle?

A. A letter.

Q. Are the people to continue kneeling while this is read?

A. No; they are to sit, and listen attentively.
Q. From whence is the Gospel taken.

A. From one of the four Gospels.

Q. In what posture are the people now to be?
A. Standing.

Q. What is repeated by the minister and congregation immediately after the Gospel.

A. The Nicene Creed.

Q. Is it different from the other creed?

A. The words are different, but the doctrine is the

same.

Q. What is done after that?

A. Another Psalm is sung.
Q. And what follows?

A. The Sermon.

Q. Of what use is the Sermon ?

A. To explain the Scriptures; to set before us the great mercies of God in redeeming mankind; and to exhort us to live as becometh those who have received such mercies.

Q. How does the minister begin the Sermon ?
A. By giving out the text.

Q. What is that?

A. A sentence from the Bible, which is explained and enforced in the Sermon.

Q. How does the service conclude?

A. The minister prays God to send a blessing on the congregation.

Q. What ought we to do when the minister has finished?

A. Intreat God, in a short Prayer, to accept our imperfect duty and service.

OF THE EVENING SERVICE.

Q. Is the evening service the same as the morning? A. The order is exactly the same, but some of the parts are different.

Questions on Scripture.

Q. What part of the service is changed?
A. The Psalms and Lessons.

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Q. Is there any particular difference in the appointment of the second Lesson?

A. Yes it is taken from the Epistles instead of the Gospels.

Q. What is used instead of the Litany?

A. The Prayers for the king, royal family, clergy and people, and all conditions of men.

Q. In what part of the service are any occasional Prayers used?

A. After the Prayer for the clergy and people. Q. How does the evening service conclude? A. With the general thanksgiving, and the two last short Prayers, the same as in the morning.

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QUESTIONS ON SCRIPTURE.

ON ST. MATTHEW V. 43.

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Question. To what command does our Saviour allude, as having been abused by the Jews into a warrant to hate their enemies?

Answer. Lev. xix. 18.

Q. Did Moses really teach the Jews to "hate their enemies?"

A. No: this false interpretation was given by the Jewish teachers.

Q. Who are meant by "neighbour" and "enemy" in this command?

A. By " enemy" is meant idolaters-by " neighbours," God's own people.

Q. What do we learn from Christ's interpretation of the law?

A. To regard all men as brethren.