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oly Ghost, into our minds end down thy heavenly light; lle our hearts with fervent zeal, serve God day and night. weakness strengthen and confirm, Or, Lord, thou know'st us frail; t neither devil, world, nor flesh, rainst us may prevail.

back our enemies far from us, ad help us to obtain

e in our hearts with God and man, he best, the truest gain; grant that thou being, O Lord, ir leader and our guide, may escape the snares of sin, ad never from thee slide.

h measures of thy powerful grace rant, Lord, to us, we pray; t thou may'st be our Comforter the last dreadful day. trife and of dissension ssolve, O Lord, the bands, knit the knots of peace and love hroughout all Christian lands. nt us the grace that we may know The Father of all might, et we of his beloved Son, ay guin the blissful sight; that we may with perfect faith ver acknowledge thee, Spirit of Father, and of Son, e God in Persons Three. God the Father laud and praise, nd to his blessed Son, to the Holy Spirit of Grace, equal Three in One.

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pray we, that our only Lord Fould please his Spirit to send all that shall profess his name, rom hence to the world's end.

Amen.

some Prophets, some Evangelists, some Pastors and Doctors, to the edifying and making perfect his Church; grant, we beseech thee, to this thy servant such grace, that he may evermore be ready to spread abroad thy gospel, the glad tidings of reconciliation with thee; and use the authority given him, not to destruction, but to salvation; not to hurt, but to help: so that as a wise and faithful servant, giving to thy family their portion in due season, he may at last be received into everlasting joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who, with thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. Amen.

Then the presiding Bishop and Bishops present, shall lay their Hands upon the Head of the elected Bishop kneeling before them, the presiding Bishop saying,

RECEIVE the Holy Ghost, for

the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

at ended, the presiding Bishop shall Amen. And remember that thou

say,

Lord, hear our prayer;

stir up the grace of God, which is given thee by this imposition

ns. And let our cry come of our hands: For God hath not

o thee.

given us the spirit of fear; but of [power, and love, and soberness. Then the presiding Bishop shall de liver him the Bible, saying,

esiding Bishop. Let us pray. LMIGHTY God and most merciful Father, who of thine nite goodness hast given thine GIVE heed unto reading, exyand dearly beloved Son Jesus hortation, and doctrine; think rist, to be our Redeemer, and upon the things contained in this Author of everlasting life; book; be diligent in them, that o, after that he had made per- the increase coming thereby may t our redemption by his death, be manifest unto all men; for by d was ascended into heaven, so doing thou shalt both save thyured down his gifts abundantly self and them that hear thee. Be on men, making some Apostles, to the flock of Christ a shepherd,

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Spare us. good Lord.

From all evil and mischief; vern thy holy Church universal may please thee to rule and gom sin; from the crafts and as-in the right way;

lts of the devil; from thy We beseech thee to hear us, ath, and from everlasting dam-good Lord.

ion,

Good Lord, deliver us.

That it may please thee to bless and preserve all Christian rulers From all blindness of heart; and magistrates; giving them m pride, vain-glory, and hy-grace to execute justice, and to risy; from envy, hatred, and maintain truth;

lice, and all uncharitableness, We beseech thee to hear us, good Good Lord, deliver us.

From all inordinate and sinful

Lord.

That it may please thee to il ections; and from all the de-luminate all Bishops, Priests, and arts of the world, the flesh, and Deacons, with true knowledge Jdevil, and understanding of thy word; and that both, by their preaching rom lightning and tempest; and living they may set it forth, nplague, pestilence, and fa-and show it accordingly;

Good Lord, deliver us.

e; from battle and murder, We beseech thee to hear us, good f from sudden death,

hood Lord, deliver us.

Lord.

That it may please thee to rom all sedition, privy con-bless these thy servants, now to acy, and rebellion; from all be admitted to the order of Deae doctrine, heresy and schism; cons [or Priests,] and to pour n hardness of heart, and con- thy grace upon them; that they pt of thy word and command- may duly execute their office, to lf, the edifying of thy Church, and Food Lord, deliver us. the glory of thy holy name; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.

y the mystery of thy holy innation; by thy holy nativity = circumcision, by thy bap, fasting, and temptation, Food Lord, deliver us.

y thine agony and bloody

That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people;

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

- at; by thy cross and passion; That it may please thee to give by precious death and burial; to all nations unity, peace, and hy glorious resurrection and concord;

ension; and by the coming of

Holy Ghost,

Food Lord, deliver us.

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to give

all time of our tribulation ;us an heart to love and fear thee, time of our prosperity; in and diligently to live after thy hour of death, and in the day commandments;

dgment,

Food Lord, deliver us.

Ve sinners do beseech thee to

We beseech thee to hear us, good

Lord.

That it may please thee to give

rus, O Lord God; and that it to all thy people increase of grace,

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t into temptation; But deliver As it was in the beginning, is and ever shall be, world with

Amen.

now,

from evil.
Bishop. O Lord, deal not with out end. Amen.

according to our sins;

From our enemies defend us,

Answer. Neither reward us ac-O Christ. ding to our iniquities.

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God, merciful Father, who despisest not the sighing of a trite heart, nor the desire of as are sorrowful; mercifully thy people. our prayers which we make. ore thee in all our troubles and ersities, whensoever they opss us; and graciously hear us, those evils which the craft I subtilty of the devil or man to hear us, O Christ. keth against us, may, by thy

With pity behold the sorrows of our hearts.

Mercifully forgive the sins of

Favourably with mercy hear our prayers.

O Son of David, have mercy

upon us

Both now and ever, vouchsafe

Graciously hear us, O Christ;

d providence, be brought to graciously hear us, O Lord Christ.

ght; that we thy servants, be

O Lord, let thy mercy be show

hurt by no persecutions, may ed upon us;
rmore give thanks unto thee
hy holy Church, through Je-
Christ our Lord.

As we do put our trust in thee. Bishop. Let us pray. WE humbly beseech thee. O Lord, arise, help us, and de- Father, mercifully to look us, for thy name's sake. upon our infirmities; and, for the GOD, we have heard with our glory of thy name, turn from us ears, and our fathers bave de-all those evils that we most justly unto us, the noble works have deserved; and grant that, in hat thou didst in their days, and all our troubles, we may put our he old time before them. whole trust and confidence in thy Lord, arise, help us, and deli-mercy, and evermore serve thee us, for thine honour. in holiness and pureness of living, lory be to the Father, and to thy honour and glory, through the Son, and to the Holy our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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