malice of the devil, or by his own who put their trust in him, to carnal will and frailness; pre-whom all things in heaven, in serve and continue this sick mem-earth, and under the earth, do ber in the unity of the Church; bow and obey, be now and everconsider his contrition, accept his more thy defence; and make thee tears, assuage his pain, as shall know and feel, that there is none seem to thee most expedient for other name under heaven given him. And forasmuch as he put-to man, in whom, and through teth his full trust only in thy mer-whom, thou mayest receive health cy, impute not unto him his for- and salvation, but only the name mer sins, but strengthen him with of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. thy blessed Spirit; and when thouT art pleased to take him hence, take him unto thy favour, through the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Minister say this Psalm: Here the Minister may use any part of the service of this Book, which, in his discretion, he shall think convenient to the occasion; and after that shall say, NTO God's gracious mercy and protection we commit thee: The Lord bless thee, and Psalm 130. De Profundis. keep thee: The Lord make his OUT of the deep have I called face to shine upon thee, and be unto thee, O Lord; Lord, gracious unto thee: The Lord hear my voice. O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss; O Lord, who may abide it? lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace both now and evermore. Amen. T Prayers which may be said with the fort going service, or any part thereof, at the discretion of the Minister. A Prayer for a Sick Child. Almighty God and merciful Father, to whom alone be For there is mercy with thee; therefore shalt thou be feared. I look for the Lord, my soul doth wait for him; in his word is long the issues of life and death; my trust. look down from heaven, we hum My soul fleeth unto the Lord.bly beseech thee, with the eyes before the morning watch; I say, before the morning watch. Q Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption. iying upon the bed of sickness: of mercy upon this Child, now Visit him, O Lord, with thy salappointed time from his bodily vation; deliver him in thy good pain, and save his soul for thy mercies sake; that if it shall be thy pleasure to prolong his days here on earth, he may live to Saviour of the world, who thee, and be an instrument of thy by thy Cross and precious glory, by serving thee faithfully, Blood hast redeemed us; save us, and doing good in his generation: and help us, we humbly beseech Or else receive him into those thee, O Lord. heavenly habitations, where the Then shall the Minister sag, souls of those who sleep in the THE Almighty Lord, who is a Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest most strong tower to all those and felicity: Grant this, O Lord, And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins. Adding this: for thy mercies sake, in the same made perfect, after they are delithy Son our Lord Jesus Christ, vered from their earthly prisons who liveth and reigneth with we humbly commend the soul of thee and the Holy Ghost, ever this thy servant, our dear brother, one God, world without end. into thy hands, as into the hands Amen. of a faithful Creator, and most TA Prayer for a sick Person, when there merciful Saviour; most humbly appeareth but small hope of r frecovery. beseeching thee, that it may be Father of mercies, a and God precious in thy sight: Wash it, of all comfort, our only help we pray thee, in the blood of that in time of need; We fly unto thee immaculate Lamb, that was slain for succour in behalf of this thy to take away the sins of the servaut, here lying under thy world; that whatsoever defic hand in great weakness of body:ments it may have contracted in Look graciously upon him, O the midst of this miserable and Lord; and the more the outward naughty world, through the lust man decayeth, strengthen him, of the flesh, or the wiles of Satan, we beseech thee, so much the being purged and done away, it more continually with thy grace may be presented pure and with and Holy Spirit, in the inner out spot before thee. And teach man: Give him unfeigned repen- us who survive, in this, and other tance for all the errors of his life like daily spectacles of mortality, past, and steadfast faith in thy to see how frail and uncertain and so to Son Jesus, that his sins may be our own conditions we may done away by thy mercy, and his number our days, or Conscience. pardon sealed in Heaven, before seriously apply our hearts to that he go hence, and be no more seen. holy and heavenly wisdom, whilst We know, O Lord, that there is we live here, which may in the no word impossible with thee; end bring us to life everlasting, and that, if thou wilt, thou canst through the merits of Jesus Christ even yet raise him up, and grant thine only Son our Lord. Amen. him a longer continuance amongst A Prayer for Persons troubled in Mind us: Yet, forasmuch as in all appearance the time of his disso- Blessed Lord, the Father of lution draweth near, so fit and mercies, and the God of all prepare him, we beseech thee, comforts, we beseech thee, look against the hour of death, that down in pity and compassion upafter his departure hence in peace, on this thy afflicted servant. Thou and in thy favour, his soul may writest bitter things against him, be received into thine everlasting and makest him to possess his kingdom; through the merits and former iniquities: Thy wrath lietk mediation of Jesus Christ thine hard upon him, and his soul is full only Son, our Lord and Saviour. of trouble: But, O merciful God, Amen. who hast written thy holy word TA Commendatory Prayer for a sick for our learning, that we, through Person at the point of departure. patience and comfort of thy holy Almighty God, with whom do Scriptures, might have hope; live the spirits of just men give him a right understanding لا him, through Jesus Christ our Sa- the Holy Spirit, be all honour and viour: To whom with thee and glory, world without 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 Minister 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 least cause to be disquicted 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. ALMIGHTY everliving God, The Epistle. Heb. xii. 5. Maker of mankind, who dost MY son, despise not thon the correct those whom thou dost chastening of the Lord, nor love, and chastise every one whom faint when thou art rebuked of thou dost receive; we beseech him. For whom the Lord lovthee to have mercy upon this thy eth, he chasteneth; and scourgservant visited with thine hand eth every son whom he receiv and to grant that he may take his eth. sickness patiently, and recover his The Gospel. St. John, v. 24. After which the Minister shall procced according to the Form before prescribed for a T 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 Communian. In the times of contagious sickness or discase, 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 communi cate with him. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. I 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 them 3 selves. 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, Am the resurrection and the hope? Truly my hope is even in life, saith the Lord; he that thee. believeth in me, though he were Deliver me from all mine ofdead, yet shall he live: And who-fences; and make me not a resoever liveth and believeth in me, buke unto the foolish. shall never die. St. John, xi. 25, 26. When thou with rebukes dost Know that my Redeemerliveth, chasten man for sin, thou makest and that he shall stand at the bis beauty to consume away, like latter day upon the earth: And as it were a moth fretting a gar though after my skin worms de- ment: Every man therefore is stroy this body, yet in my flesh but vanity. shall I see God; whom I shall Hear my prayer, O Lord; and see for myself, and mine eyes with thine ears consider my callshall behold, and not another.ing:Hold not thy peace at my tears. Job, xix. 25, 26, 27, WE brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job, i. 21. Psalms. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner; as all my fathers were. O spare me a little, that I may bence, and be no more seen. recover my strength; before I go Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. Before the mountains were After they are come into the Church, shall be said or sung the following Anthem, taken from the 39th and 90th brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou LORD, let me know my end, art God from everlasting, and and the number of my days; world without end. that I may be certified how long Thou turnest man to destrucI have to live. tion; again thou sayest, Come Behold, thou hast made my again, ye children of men. days as it were a span, long; and For a thousand years in thy mine age is even as nothing in re-sight are but as yesterday; seeing spect of thee; and verily every that is past as a watch in the night. man living is altogether vanity. As soon as thou scatterest them, For man walketh in a vain sha-they are even as asleep; and fade dow, and disquieteth himself in away suddenly like the grass. vain; he heapeth up riches, and In the morning it is green, and cannot tell who shall gather groweth up; but in the evening them.. it is cut down, dried up, and wi And now, Lord, what is mylthered. |