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Judge, therefore, yourselves, brethren, that ye be not judged of the Lord: for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; and who is able to dwell with the everlasting burning?

But if any of you, after this severe admonition, shall presume to approach these sacred mysteries with an impure and disobedient heart,-let him know that he pollutes the blood of the everlasting covenant, he eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. I have given you warning; I have discharged my duty.

All ye who truly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to lead a holy life in all godliness, and sobriety, and honesty,-draw near and take these holy mysteries to your comfort; first make your humble confession of sins to God, and meekly beg his pardon for what is past, and his grace for the time to come.

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The Confession, to be said by all kneeling.

Almighty God, we miserable sinners do humbly confess, and are truly sorrowful for our many and great, our innumerable and intolerable crimes, of which our consciences do accuse us by night and by day, and by which we have provoked thy severest wrath and indignation against us. We have broken all thy righteous laws and commandments, by word or by deed, by vain thoughts or sinful desires : we have sinned against thee in all our relations, in all places and at all times; we can neither reckon their number, nor bear their burden, nor suffer thine anger which we have deserved. But thou, O Lord God, art merciful and gracious: have mercy upon us pardon us for all the evils we have done: judge us not for all the good we have omitted: take not thy favour from us, but delight thou to sanctify us and save us, and work in us to will and to do of thy good pleasure all our duty, that being sanctified by thy Spirit, and delivered from our sins, we may serve thee in a religious and a holy conversation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then the Minister, rising up, shall pronounce Absolution in the form prescribed at Morning Prayer.

Our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus, the great-Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, that Lamb of God who taketh away

the sins of the world, who promised paradise to the repenting thief, and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery,-he pardon and forgive all your sins known and unknown.

O blessed Jesus, in whatsoever thy servants,-as men bearing flesh about them, and inhabiting this world, or deceived by the devil,- have sinned, whether in word or deed, whether in thought or desire, whether by omission or commission, let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy Spirit; and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee, and from suffering thine eternal anger, for thy promise' sake, and for thy glorious name's sake, O blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus. Amen.

Then, all rising up, there shall be made a Collection for the Poor, by the Deacon or Clerk, while the Minister reads some of these Sentences, or makes an exhortation to Charity and Alms.

To do good and to distribute forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Hebr. xiii. 16.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble: the Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth, and thou wilt not deliver him into the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Psal. xli. 1, 2, 3.

He which soweth sparingly, shall reap sparingly,—and he which soweth bountifully, shall reap bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Cor. ix. 6, 7.

Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Luke, xvi. 9.

Give alms of such things as ye have, and behold all things are clean unto you. Luke, xi. 41.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'Come ye blessed children of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. For I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick and visited me; ye I was in prison, and ye came unto me.' Matth. xxv. 34, 35.

Let him that is taught in the word, communicate unto him that teacheth, in all good things. Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. vi. 6, 7.

If there be none fit to gather, the Minister himself shall gather it: and when he hath done or received it from the hand of him that gathered it, let him in an humble manner present it to God, laying it on the Communion Table, secretly and devoutly saying;

Lord, accept the oblation and alms of thy people: and remember thy servants for this thing, at the day of judgment.

Then shall follow the Address to the Holy Mysteries; the people shall come up to the Holy Table where it is the custom, or near it, where it is most fit to communicate: and then, the Minister shall say,

Let us pray.

O God, who, by thy unspeakable mercy, hast sent thy only begotten Son into the world, that he might bring the wandering sheep into his fold, turn not away from us miserable sinners, who worship and invocate thee in these holy mysteries. For we do not approach to thee in our own righteousness, but in the hope and confidence of that glorious mercy, by which thou hast sent thy holy Son to redeem miserable and lost mankind. We humbly beseech thee to grant, that these mysteries, which thou hast ordained to be ministries of salvation to us, may not become an occasion of our condemnation, but of pardon of our sins, of the renovation of our souls, of the sanctification and preservation of our bodies, that we may become well pleasing to thee our God, in the obedience of our Lord Jesus, with whom, and with thy Holy Spirit, thou reignest over all, one God, blessed for evermore. Amen.

Minister. Lift up your hearts.

People. We lift them up unto the Lord.

Minister. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.
People. It is just and right so to do.

Minister.

It is, indeed, truly just, righteous, and fitting, to praise and to glorify, to worship and adore, to give thanks and to magnify thee the great Maker of all creatures, visible and invisible, the treasure of all good, temporal and eternal: the fountain of all life, mortal and immortal: the Lord and God

of all things in heaven and earth, the great Father of his servants, the great Master of his children.

The heavens and the heaven of heavens, and every power therein; the sun and the moon, and all the stars of the sky; the sea and the earth, the heights above and the depths below; Jerusalem that is from above, the congregation celestial, the church of the first-born written in the heavens, the spirits of the prophets and of just men made perfect, the souls of the apostles and all holy martyrs, angels and archangels, thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, the spirits of understanding and the spirits of love, with neverceasing hymns and perpetual anthems cry out, night and day, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts! heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!

Hosanna in the highest!

HERE BEGINNETH THE COMMUNION.

After a decent pause for short Meditation, the Minister shall, with a loud voice, say,

Our Father, &c.

And then this, 'Expámois, or Denunciation.

LET all corruptible flesh be silent, and stand with fear and trembling, and think within itself nothing that is earthly, nothing that is unholy. The King of kings, the Lord of lords, Christ our God comes down from heaven unto us, and gives himself to be meat for the souls of all faithful people. All the glorious companies of angels behold this and wonder, and love and worship Jesus. Every throne and dominion, the cherubims with many eyes, and the seraphims with many wings, cover their faces before the majesty of his glory, and sing a perpetual song for ever: Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Glory be to God on high; and in earth, peace; good will towards men. Hallelujah.

Then shall follow this Prayer of Consecration, to be said by the
Minister standing.

I.

Have mercy upon us, O heavenly Father, according to thy glorious mercies and promises, send thy Holy Ghost upon

our hearts, and let him also descend upon these gifts, that by his good, his holy, his glorious presence, he may sanctify and enlighten our hearts, and he may bless and sanctify these gifts;

That this bread may become the holy body of Christ.

Amen.

And this chalice may become the life-giving blood of Christ. Amen.

That it may become unto us all, that partake of it this day, a blessed instrument of union with Christ, of pardon and peace, of health and blessing, of holiness and life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

II.

Holy and blessed art thou, O King of eternal ages, fountain and giver of all righteousness.

Holy art thou, the eternal and only-begotten Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, Redeemer of the world.

Holy art thou, O blessed Spirit, that searchest all things, even the depths and hidden things of God.

Thou, O God, art Almighty: thou art good and gracious, dreadful and venerable, holy and merciful to the work of thine own hands.

Thou didst make man according to thine image; thou gavest him the riches and the rest of paradise: when he fell and broke thy easy commandment, thou didst not despise his folly, nor leave him in his sin; but didst chastise him with thy rod, and restrain him by thy law, and instruct him by thy prophets; and, at last, didst send thy holy Son into the .world, that he might renew and repair thy broken image.

The People shall answer,
Blessed be God.

He, coming from heaven, and taking our flesh, by the power of the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary, conversed with men, and taught us the way of God, and the dispensation of eternal life.

People. Holy Jesus! Blessed be God.

But when for the redemption of us sinners he would suffer death upon the cross without sin, for us who were nothing but sin and misery,-in the night in which he was betrayed, he took bread, he looked up to heaven, he gave

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