The Book of Common Prayer, as printed by John Baskerville
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MORNING PRAYER. The O R D E R for O Lord, corre me, but with judgment; not
in thine anger, le thou bring me to nothing. MORNING PRAYER, Jer. 10. 24. Pſalm 6.1. Repent ye; for the Kingdom of heaven is at Daily throughout the Year. hand. S. Matt. 3.2. I will ariſe and go to my father; and will ſay unto him, Father, I have ſinned again heaven, ¶ At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minier ſhall read with a and before thee, and am no more worthy to be loud voice one or more of theſe Sentences of the Scriptures that called thy ſon. S. Luke 15. 18, 19. follow. And then he ſhall ſay that which is written after the ſaid Enter not into judgment with thy ſervant, O Sentences. Lord; for in thy ſight ſhall no man living be juſ- H E N the wicked man turneth away tified. Pſalm 143. 2. Wfrom his wickedneſs that he hath com- If we ſay that we have no ſin, we deceive our- mitted, and doeth that which is lawful and ſelves, and the truth is not in us: But if we con- right, he ſhall ſave his ſoul alive. Ezek. 18. 27. feſs our ſins, God is faithful and ju to forgive I acknowledge my tranſgreſſions; and my ſin us our ſins, and to cleanſe us from all unrighte- is ever before me. Pſalm 51. 3. ouſneſs. 1 S. John 1. 8, 9. Hide thy face from my ſins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Pſalm 51. 9. EARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture The ſacrifices of God are a broken ſpirit: a Dmoveth us, in ſundry places, to acknow- broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt ledge and confeſs our manifold ſins and wicked- not deſpiſe. Pſalm 51. 17. neſs; and that we ſhould not diſſemble nor Rend your heart, and not your garments, and cloke them before the face of Almighty God our turn unto the Lord your God: for he is heavenly Father; but confeſs them with an gracious and merciful, ſlow to anger, and of humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to great kindneſs, and repenteth him of the evil. the end that we may obtain forgiveneſs of the Joel 2. 13. ſame, by his infinite goodneſs and mercy. And To the Lord our God belong mercies and although we ought, at all times, humbly to forgiveneſs, though we have rebelled again acknowledge our ſins before God; yet ought we him: neither have we obeyed the voice of the mo chiefly ſo to do, when we aſſemble and Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he ſet meet together, to render thanks for the great before us. Dan. 9. 9, 10. MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. benefits that we have received at his hands, to ¶ The Absolution or Remiſſion of ſins, to be pronounced by the Prie ſet forth his mo worthy praiſe, to hear his mo alone, anding; the People ill kneeling. holy Word, and to aſk thoſe things that are L M I G H T Y God, the Father of our Lord requiſite and neceſſary, as well for the body as Jeſus Chri, who deſireth not the death of the ſoul. Wherefore I pray and beſeech you, as A a ſinner, but rather that he may turn from his many as are here preſent, to accompany me, wickedneſs and live; and hath given power and with a pure heart, and humble voice, unto the commandment, to his Miniers, to declare and throne of the heavenly grace, ſaying after me: pronounce to his people, being penitent, the ¶ A general Confeſſion to be ſaid of the whole Congregation, after the abſolution and remiſſion of their ſins: He Minier, all kneeling. pardoneth and abſolveth all them that truly
repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy LMIGHTY and mo merciful Father, Goſpel. Wherefore let us beſeech him to grant We have erred and rayed from thy ways A us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit; that like lo ſheep: We have followed too much thoſe things may pleaſe him which we do at the devices and deſires of our own hearts: We this preſent, and that the reſt of our life have offended again thy holy laws: We have hereafter may be pure and holy; ſo that at the left undone thoſe things which we ought to la we may come to his eternal joy; through have done; And we have done thoſe things Jeſus Chri our Lord. which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy ¶ The people ſhall anſwer here, and at the end of all other prayers, upon us, miſerable offenders: Spare thou them, Amen. ¶ Then, the Minier ſhall kneel, and ſay the Lord’s Prayer with an O God, which confeſs their fault: Reore thou audible voice: the people alſo kneeling, and repeating it with him, them that are penitent; According to thy both here, and whereſoever elſe it is uſed in Divine Service. promiſes declared unto mankind in Chri Jeſu our Lord. And grant, O mo merciful Father, U R Father, which art in heaven, Hal- for his ſake, That we may hereafter live a Olowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; godly, righteous, and ſober life, To the glory Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: of thy holy Name. Amen. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our treſpaſſes, as we forgive them that treſpaſs againſt us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for In his hands are all the corners of the earth: ever and ever. Amen. and the rength of the hills is his alſo. The ſea is his, and he made it: and his hands ¶ Then likewiſe he ſhall ſay, prepared the dry land. O Lord, open thou our lips; O come, let us worſhip and fall down: and Anſw. And our mouth ſhall ſhew forth thy kneel before the Lord our Maker. praiſe. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the Prie. O God, make ſpeed to ſave us. people of his paure, and the ſheep of his hand. Anſw. O Lord, make hae to help us. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in ¶ Here all anding up, the Prie ſhall ſay, the day of temptation in the wilderneſs; Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and When your fathers tempted me: proved me, to the Holy Gho; and ſaw my works. Anſw. As it was in the beginning, is now, and Forty years long was I grieved with this gen- ever ſhall be: world without end. Amen. eration, and ſaid: It is a people that do err in Prie. Praiſe ye the Lord. their hearts, for they have not known my ways. Anſw. The Lord’s Name be praiſed. Unto whom I ſware in my wrath: that they
¶ Then ſhall be ſaid or ſung this Pſalm following; except on Eaer- ſhould not enter into my re. Day, upon which another Anthem is appointed: and on the Glory be to the Father and to the Son: and Nineteenth Day of every Month it is not to be read here, but in the to the Holy Gho; ordinary courſe of the Pſalms. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever
ſhall be: world without end. Amen. Venite, exultemus Domino. PSAL. 95
¶ Then ſhall follow the Pſalms in order as they be appointed; and at Come, let us ſing unto the Lord: let us the end of every Pſalm throughout the Year, and likewiſe in the Oheartily rejoice in the rength of our end of Benedicte, Benedictus, Magnificat, and Nunc ſalvation. dimittis, ſhall be repeated, Let us come before his preſence with thanks- Glory be to the Father and to the Son : and giving: and ſhow ourſelves glad in him with to the Holy Gho; pſalms. Anſw. As it was in the beginning, is now, and For the Lord is a great God: and a great ever ſhall be : world without end. Amen. King above all gods. MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. ¶ Then ſhall be read diinctly with an audible voice the fir Leſſon, taken out of the Old Teament, as it is appointed in the Calendar Thou art the King of Glory: O Chri. (except there be proper Leſſons aſſigned for that Day:) he that readeth Thou art the everlaing Son: of the Father. ſo anding, and turning himſelf, as he may be heard of all ſuch as are When thou tooke upon thee to deliver man: preſent. And after that, ſhall be ſaid or ſung in Engliſh, the Hymn thou did not abhor the Virgin’s womb. called Te Deum Laudamus daily throug-out the year. When thou had overcome the ſharpneſs of ¶ Note, That before every Leſſon the Minier ſhall ſay, Here beginneth ſuch a Chapter, or Verſe of ſuch a Chapter, of death: thou did open the Kingdom of ſuch a Book: And after every Leſſon, Here endeth the Firſt, or Heaven to all believers. the Second Leſſon. Thou ſitte at the right hand of God: in the
Te Deum Laudamuſ glory of the Father. We believe that thou ſhalt come: to be our E praiſe thee, O God: we acknowledge Judge. Wthee to be the Lord. We therefore pray thee, help thy ſervants: All the earth doth worſhip thee: the Father whom thou ha redeemed with thy precious everlaſting. blood. To thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens Make them to be numbered with thy ſaints: and all the Powers therein; in glory everlaing. To thee Cherubim and Seraphim: continu- O Lord, ſave thy people: and bleſs thine ally do cry, heritage. Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth; Govern them: and lift them up for ever. Heaven and earth are full of the Majey: of Day by day: we magnify thee; thy Glory. And we worſhip thy Name ever: world with- The glorious company of the Apoles: out end. praiſe thee. Vouchſafe, O Lord: to keep us this day The goodly fellowſhip of the Prophets: without ſin. praiſe thee. O Lord, have mercy upon us: have mercy The noble army of Martyrs: praiſe thee. upon us. The holy Church throughout all the world: O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us: as doth acknowledge thee; our tru is in thee. The Father: of an infinite Majey; O Lord, in thee have I trued: let me never Thine adorable, true: and only Son; be confounded. Alſo the Holy Gho: the Comforter. MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. ¶ Or this Canticle O ye Ice and Snow, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe
Benedicite, omnia opera. him, and magnify him for ever. All ye Works of the Lord, bleſs ye the O ye Nights and Days, bleſs ye the Lord: OLord: praiſe him, and magnify him for praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. ever. O ye Light and Darkneſs, bleſs ye the Lord: O ye Angels of the Lord, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Lightnings and Clouds, bleſs ye the O ye Heavens, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. and magnify him for ever. O let the Earth bleſs the Lord: yea, let it O ye Waters that be above the firmament, praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him O ye Mountains and Hills, bleſs ye the Lord: for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O all ye Powers of the Lord, bleſs ye the O all ye Green things upon the earth, bleſs Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for O ye Sun and Moon, bleſs ye the Lord: ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Wells, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, O ye Stars of heaven, bleſs ye the Lord: and magnify him for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Seas and Floods, bleſs ye the Lord: O ye Showers and Dew, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Whales, and all that move in the wa- O ye Winds of God, bleſs ye the Lord: ters, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, and mag- praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. nify him for ever. O ye Fire and Heat, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe O all ye Fowls of the air, bleſs ye the Lord: him, and magnify him for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Winter and Summer, bleſs ye the Lord: O all ye Beas and Cattle, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Dews and Froſts, bleſs ye the Lord: O ye Children of men, bleſs ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. O ye Fro and Cold, bleſs ye the Lord: O let Iſrael bleſs the Lord: praiſe him, and praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. magnify him for ever. MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. O ye Pries of the Lord, bleſs ye the Lord: To perform the mercy promiſed to our fore- praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. fathers: and to remember his holy covenant; O ye Servants of the Lord, bleſs ye the Lord: To perform the oath which he ſware to our praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. forefather Abraham: that he would give us; O ye Spirits and Souls of the righteous, bleſs That we being delivered out of the hands of ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for our enemies: might ſerve him without fear; ever. In holineſs and righteouſneſs before him: all O ye Holy and Humble men of heart, bleſs the days of our life. ye the Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for And thou, child, ſhalt be called the Prophet ever. of the Highe: for thou ſhalt go before the O Ananias, Azarias, and Miſael, bleſs ye the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; Lord: praiſe him, and magnify him for ever. To give knowledge of ſalvation unto his Glory be to the Father and to the Son: and people: for the remiſſion of their ſins, to the Holy Gho; Through the tender mercy of our God: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever whereby the Day-ſpring from on high hath ſhall be: world without end. Amen. viſited us; To give light to them that ſit in darkneſs, ¶ Then ſhall be read in like manner the Second Leſſon, taken out of and in the ſhadow of death: to guide our feet the New Teament: and after that, the Hymn following; except into the way of peace. when that ſhall happen to be read in the Chapter for the day, or Glory be to the Father and to the Son: and for the goſpel on St. John Bapti’s Day. to the Holy Gho; Benedictus. S. LUKE 1. 68 As it was in the beginning, is now: and ever ſhall be, world without end. Amen. LESSED be the Lord God of Iſrael: for Bhe hath viſited and redeemed his people; ¶ Or this Pſalm. Jubilate Deo. PſAL. 100. And he hath raiſed up a mighty ſalvation for Be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands: ſerve us: in the houſe of his ſervant David; the Lord with gladneſs, and come before As he ſpoke by the mouth of his holy Pro- O his preſence with a ſong. phets: which have been ſince the world began; Be ye ſure that the Lord, he is God; it is he That we ſhould be ſaved from our enemies: who hath made us, and not we ourſelves: we and from the hand of all that hate us; MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. are hiſ people, and the ſheep of his paure. ¶ And after that theſe Prayers following, all devoutly kneeling; the Minier firſt pronouncing with a loud voice, O go your way into his gates with thankſgiving, and into his courts with praiſe: The Lord be with you; be thankful unto him, and ſpeak good of his Anſw. And with thy ſpirit. Name. ¶ Minier. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is ever- Let us pray. laing: and his truth endureth from genera- Lord, have mercy upon us; tion to generation. Chri, have mercy upon us. Glory be to the Father and to the Son: and Lord, have mercy upon us; to the Holy Gho; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever ¶ Then the Minier, Clerks, and People, ſhall ſay the Lord’s Prayer ſhall be: world without end. Amen. with a loud voice.
¶ Then ſhall be ſung or ſaid the Apoles Creed, by the Minier and UR Father, which art in heaven, Hal- the People, anding: except only ſuch days as the Creed of St. Olowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Athanaſius is appointed to be read. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker us our treſpaſſes, as we forgive them that treſ- of heaven and earth: I paſs again us; And lead us not into And in Jeſus Chri his only Son, our Lord; temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen. Who was conceived by the Holy Gho, Born ¶ Then the Prie anding up, ſhall ſay, of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried; He O Lord, ſhow thy mercy upon us; deſcended into hell; The third day he roſe Anſw. And grant us thy ſalvation. again from the dead; He aſcended into heaven, Prie. O Lord, ſave the King. And ſitteth on the right hand of God the Anſw. And mercifully hear us, when we call Father Almighty; From thence he ſhall come to upon thee. judge the quick and the dead. Prie. Endue thy Miniers with righteouſ- I believe in the Holy Gho; The holy Ca- neſs; tholick Church; The Communion of Saints; Anſw. And make thy choſen people joyful. The Forgiveneſs of ſins; The Reſurrection of Prie. O Lord, ſave thy people; the body; And the Life everlaing. Amen. Anſw. And bleſs thine inheritance. MORNING PRAYER. MORNING PRAYER. Prie. Give peace in our time, O Lord; ¶ In Quires an Places where they ſing, here followeth the Anthem. Anſw. Becauſe there is none other that ¶ Then theſe five Prayers following are to be read here, except when the Litany is read; and then only the two la are to be read, as fighteth for us, but only thou, O God. they are there placed. Prie. O God, make clean our hearts within ¶ A Prayer for the King’s Majey us; Anſw. And take not thy Holy Spirit from us. Lord, our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the ¶ Then ſhall follow three Colles: The fir of the Day, which ſhall O be the ſame that is appointed at the Communion; The ſecond for only Ruler of princes, who do from thy Peace: The third for Grace to live well: And the two la Collects throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; ſhall never alter, but daily be ſaid at Morning Prayer throughout Mo heartily we beſeech thee, with thy favor all the year, as followeth, all kneeling. to behold our moſt gracious Sovereign Lord, The Second Colle, for Peace. King G EORGE; and ſo repleniſh him with God, who art the author of peace and the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway Olover of concord, in knowledge of whom incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue andeth our eternal life, whoſe ſervice is per- him plenteouſly with heavenly gifts; grant him fect freedom; Defend us thy humble ſervants in in health and wealth long to live; rengthen all aſſaults of our enemies; that we, ſurely him that he may vanquiſh and overcome all his truing in thy defence, may not fear the power enemies, and finally, after this life he may of any adverſaries, through the might of Jeſus attain everlaing joy and felicity; through Je- Chri our Lord. Amen. ſus Chri our Lord. Amen.
¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family The Third Colle, for Grace. Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and LMIGHTY God, the fountain of all Oeverlaing God, who haſt ſafely brought A goodneſs, we humbly beſeech thee to bleſs us to the beginning of this day; Defend us in our gracious Queen C HARLOTTE, her Royal the ſame with thy mighty power; and grant Highneſs the Princeſs Dowager of Wales, and that this day we fall into no ſin, neither run all the Royal Family: Endue them with thy into any kind of danger; but that all our do- Holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly ings, being ordered by thy government, may be grace; proſper them with all happineſs; and righteous in thy ſight; through Jeſus Chri our bring them to thine everlaſting kingdom; Lord. Amen. through Jeſus Chri our Lord. Amen. MORNING PRAYER. ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People.
L M I G H T Y and everlaſting God, who A alone worke great marvels; Send down upon our Biſhops and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly pleaſe thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy bleſſing: Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jeſus Chri. Amen.
A Prayer of Saint Chryſoom.
LMIGHTY God, who ha given us grace Aat this time with one accord to make our common ſupplications unto thee; and do promiſe that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their reques; Fulfill now, O Lord, the deſires and petitions of thy ſervants, as may be mo expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlaing. Amen.
2 COR. 13. 14.
H E grace of our Lord Jeſus Chri, and T the love of God, and the fellowſhip of the Holy Gho, be with us all evermore. Amen.
Here endeth the Order of Morning Prayer throughout the Year.