The FORM of

Confecrating the OIL for the SICK.

When the Oil for the Sick is to be confecrated, the Deacon immediately after the Nicene Creed in the Euchariftick Service, shall bring a proper quantity of Sweet Oil of Olives in a decent vessel to the Bishop, who shall place it upon the Altar; and then turning to the People, he shall say,

The Lord be with you.

Anfw. And with thy spirit.

Then shall the Deacon Say to the People,

Let us pray.

Then the People shall kneel down; and the Bishop turning to the Altar, and standing before it, shall fay the following prayer.

Almighty Lord God, who hast taught us by thy holy Apostle Saint James, to anoint the fick with oil, that they may attain their bodily health, and render thanks unto thee for the fame; look down we beseech thee, and bless and fanc☑ tify here the Bishop is to make the fign of the cross over the Oil this thy creature of Oil, the juice of the olive: Grant, that those who shall be anointed therewith, may be delivered from all pains, troubles, and diseases both

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of body and mind, and from all the snares, temptations, and affaults of the powers of darkness, through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son; who, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Then the People shall rise, and the Deacon shall carry the confecrated Oil into the Vestry, or to fome other convenient place.

Note, every Priest must take care to apply to the Bishop for confecrated Oil, who shall upon fuch their application furnish them therewith.

And here it is to be noted concerning the Oil for Baptism, the Milk and Honey for the Baptized, the Chrism for Confirmation, and the Oil for the Sick; that if all or more than one of them are to be confecrated on the same day, they may be confecrated the one after the other, in the same order that they follow each other in this book.

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COMMUNION of the SICK.

When a fick person, not able to come to the church, is defirous to receive the Eucharift in his house, he must give timely notice to the Priest, fignifying alfo how many there are to communicate with him. Upon which the Priest, as soon as he conveniently may, shall carry a proper quantity of the confe crated Euchariftick elements, which were referved at the Publick Communion, to the fick person's house; where a convenient place and all things necessary being so prepared, that the Priest may reverently minister, he shall there administer the Holy Communion after the form and manner following.

The elements being covered with a fair white linen cloth, the Priest (or the Deacon, if he be there as well as the Priest) shall fay, The Introit appointed for this occafion is part of the forty first Pfalm.

Then shall be said the Introit.

BLeffed is he that confidereth the poor and needy:

the Lord shall deliver him in the time of

trouble.

The Lord preferve him, and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth: and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies.

The The Lord comfort him when he lieth fick upon his bed: make thou all his bed in his fickness.

I faid, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my foul, for I have finned against thee.

Mine enemies speak evil of me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord: raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them.

By this I know thou favourest me: that mine enemy doth not triumph against me.

And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me: and shalt set me before thy face for ever.

Blessed be the Lord God of Ifrael: world without end. Amen.

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.

Then the Priest shall say to the People,

The Lord be with you.

Anfw. And with thy spirit.

Pr. or Deac. Let us pray.

Then the People shall kneel, and the Priest shall say,

Lord, have mercy upon us.

Anfw. Chrift, have mercy upon us.

Pr. Lord, have mercy upon us.

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Then shall the Priest say the following Prayer. A Lmighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all

defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the infpiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then shall be read the Collect, as followeth, A Lmighty ever-living God, maker of mankind,

who correctest those whom thou dost love, and chastisest every one whom thou dost receive: we beseech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand; and to grant, that he may take his fickness patiently, and recover his bodily health, if it be thy gracious will; and that whensoever his foul shall depart from the body, it may be carried by thy holy angels into the region of the Blessed, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Immediately after the Collect the People shall rise, and the Priest or Deacon being turned to them, shall read the Epistle, Saying,

The Epistle is written in the twelfth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews, beginning at the fifth verfe...

MY fon, defpife not thou the chaftening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth; and scourgeth every fon whom he receiveth.

The Epistle ended, he shall say,

Here endeth the Epistle.

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