although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the fick perfon is visited, and receiveth the holy Communion all at one time, then the Priest, for more expedition, shall cut off the Form of the Vifitation at the Pfalm [In thee, O Lord, have I put my truft] and go straight to the Communion. In the time of the Plague, Sweat, or other fuch like contagious times of fickness or diseases, when none of the Parish or Neigh bours can be gotten to communicate with the fick in their houses for fear of the Infection, upon fpecial request of the difeafed, the Minifter may only communicate with him. The Order for the Burial of the DEA D. Here is to be noted, That the Office enfuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves. I The Pricft and Clerks meeting the Corps at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the Grave, hall fay or fing, Am the refurrection and the life, faith the Lord: he that believeth in me,though he were dead, yet fhall he live. And whofoever liveth and be lieveth in me, fall never die. S. John 11. 25, 26. Know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin, worms deftroy this body; yet in my flefli fhall I fee God: whom I fall fee for my felf, and mine eyes fhall behold, and not another. Feb 19. 25, 26, 27. E brought Behold, thou haft made my as it were a long: W this world, and it is and mine age is even as nothing certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; bleffed be the Name of the Lord. 2Tim. 6.7. Job 1.21. in respect of thee, and verily After they are come into the ways offend my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly is in my fight. I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept filence, yea, but it even from good words; was pain and grief to me. My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus mufing, the fire kindled and at the laft I fpake with my tongue. : Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. For man walketh in a vain fhadow, and difquieteth himfelf in vain he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who fhall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my he truly my hope is even in thee. Deliver Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doing. Take thy plague away from me I am even confumed by means of thy heavy hand. When thou with rebukes doft chaften man for fin, thou makeft his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fret ting a garment : every man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears confider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a ftranger with thee and a fojourner, as all my fathers were. : O fpare me a little, that I may recover my ftrength: before I go hence, and be no more feen. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the, &c. Domine, refugium. Pfalm 90. Thou turneft man to deftruEtion again thou fayft, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy fight, are but as yesterday : feeing that is past as a watch in the night. : In the morning it is green, and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we confume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou haft fet our misdeeds before thee: and our fecret fins in the light of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threefcore years and ten, and though men be fo ftrong,that they come to fourfcore years: yet is their ftrength then but labour and forrow; fo foon paffeth it away, and we are gone. As foon as thou scattereft them, they are even as a fleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth, fo is thy difpleasure. Turn thee again, O Lord, at : thou haft been our laff, and be gracious unto : refuge from one generation to another. thy fervants. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Ofatisfie us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again, now after the time thou that haft plagued us: and for the years wherein we have fuffered adverfity. Shew thy fervants thy work: and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majefty of the Lord our God be upon us : profper thou the work of our hands upon us, O profper thou our handy-work. Glory be to the Father, &c. 13 Then Then fall follow the Leffon ta- us eat and drink, for to morrow ken out of the Fifteenth Chap- we die. Be not deceived; evil ter of the former Epistle of communications corrupt good Saint Paul to the Corinthians. manners. Awake to righteoufI Cor. 15. 20. nefs, and fin not; for fome have rifen from not the of God. I Ow is N the dead, and become the speak this to your 1hame. But Sirft-fruits of them that flept. fome man will fay, How are the For fince by man came death, dead raised up? and with what by man came alfo the refurre- body do they come? Thou fool, tion of the dead. For as in A- that which thou foweft is not dam all die, even fo in Chrift quickned except it die. And hall all be made alive. But eve- that which thou foweft, thou ry man in his own order: Chrift fowest not that body that shall the firft-fruits; afterward they be,but bare grain,it may chance that are Chriffs, at his coming. of wheat, or of fome other Then cometh the end, when grain. But God giveth it a bohe Thall have delivered up the dy as it hath pleased him, and kingdom to God, even the Fa- to every feed his own body. All ther r; when he fhall have put fiefh is not the fame flesh, but down all rule, and all autho- there is one kind of flesh of men, rity and power. For he muft another flesh of beafts, another reign till he hath put all ene- of fishes, and another of birds. mies under his feet. The laft There are alfo celeftial bodies, enemy that fhall be deftroyed and bodies terreftrial; but the is death: For he hath put all glory of the celeftial is one, and things under his feet. But when the glory of the terrestrial is he faith all things are put under another. There is one glory of him, it is manifeft that he is the fun, and another glory of excepted which did put all the moon, and another glory of things under him. And when the ftars; for one ftar differeth all things fhall be fubdued unto from another ftar in glory. So him, then fhall the Son alfo alfo is the refurrection of the himself be fubject unto him dead; It is fown in corruption; that put all things under him, it is raised in incorruption: It that God may be all in all. Elfe is fown in difhonour; it is raised what fhall they do which are in glory: It is fown in weakness; baptized for the dead, if the it is raised in power: It is fown dead rife not at all? why are a natural body; it is raised a they then baptized for the fpiritual body. There is a nadead? And why ftand we in tural body, and there is a spirijeopardy every hour? I proteft tual body. And fo it is written, by your rejoycing which I have The first man Adam was made in Chrift Jefus our Lord, I die a living foul, the laft Adam daily. If after the manner of was made a quickning Spirit. men I have fought with beafts Howbeit, that was not firft at Ephefus, what advantageth which is fpiritual; but that it me, if the dead rife not? Let which is natural, and afterward that Prieft fhall fay, or the Prief and Clerks fhall fing, that which is fpiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the fecond man is Lord from An that is born of a wo heaven. As is the earthy, fuch Man, hath but a fort : : are they that are earthy and time to live, and is full of mias is the heavenly, fuch are fery. He cometh up, and is cut they alfo that are heavenly.And down like a flower, he fleeth as we have born the image of as it were a fhadow, and never the earthy, we fhall alfo bear continueth in one ftay. the image of the heavenly.Now In the midft of life we are in this I fay, brethren, that flefli death of whom may we feek and blood cannot inherit the for fuccour, but of thee, O kingdom of God; neither doth Lord, who for our fins art juftcorruption inherit incorrupti- ly difpleafed ? on. Behold, I fhew you a my- Yet, O Lord God moft holy, ftery. We fhall not all fleep, O Lord mot mighty, O holy but we fhall all be changed in a and most merciful Saviour, moment, in the twinkling of an -deliver us not into the bitter eye, at the last trump; (for the pains of eternal death. trumpet fhall found, and the Thou knoweft, Lord, the fe dead fhall be raife incorrupti- crets of our hearts; fhut not ble, and we shall be changed.) thy merciful cars to our pray For this corruptible muit put ers, but fpare us, Lord mot on incorruption, and this mor- holy, O God mot mighty, O tal muft put on immortality. holy and merciful Saviour, So when this corruptible fhall thou most worthy Judge eter have put on incorruption, and nal, fuffer us not at our laft this mortal fhall have put on hour for any pains of death to immortality, then fhall be fall from thee. brought to pafs the faying that is written, Death is fwallowed up in victory. O death, where death, where Then while the Earth shall be caft upon the body by fome ftanding by,the Priest shall say, as hath plea is thy fting? O grave, where is Fed Almighty God of his thy victory? The fting of death is fin, and the ftrengh of fin is great mercy to take unto himthe law. But thanks be to God felf the foul of our dear brother which giveth us the victory, here departed, we therefore through our Lord Jefus Chrift. commit his body to the ground; Therefore, my beloved bre- earth to earth, afhes to ashes, thren, be ye ftedfaft, unmove- duft to duft, in fure and certain able, always abounding in the hope of the resurrection to ework of the Lord, forafniuch ternal life, through our Lord as ye know that your labour is Jefus Chrift, who fall change not in vain in the Lord. our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able to fubdue all things to himself. 14 Then When they come to the Grave, while the Corps is made ready to be laid into the Earth, the Then fhall be faid or fung, mation and blifs, both in body Heard a voice from heaven, and foul, in thy eternal and faying unto me, Write; everlafting glory, through JeFrom henceforth bleffed are fus Chrift our Lord. Amen. the dead which die in the The Collect. Lord: even Spirit; for they reft from their labours Rev. 14. 13: Oe Merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who is the refurrection and the Then the Prieft shall say, life; in whom whosoever beLord, have mercy upon us. lieveth fhall live, though he Chrift, have mercy upon us. die; and whofoever liveth and Lord, have mercy upon us. believeth in him, fhall not die Ur Father, which art in eternally; who allo hath taught Heaven; Hallowed be thy us (by his holy Apostle Saint Name. Thy Kingdom come. Paul) not to be forry as men Thy will be done in Earth, As without hope, for them that it is in Heaven. Give us this fleep in him; We meekly beday our daily bread. And for- feech thee, O Father, to raise give us our trefpaffes, As we us from the death of fin unto forgive them that trefpafs a- the life of righteousness; that gainst us. And lead us not in- when we fhall depart this life, to temptation; But deliver us we may reft in him, as our from evil. Amen. hope is this our brother doth, and that at the general refur Prieft. A do live the fpirits of them be found acceptable in thy that depart hence in the Lord, fight, and receive that bleffing and with whom the fouls of the which thy well-beloved Son faithful, after they are delivered fhall then pronounce to all from the burden of the flesh, that love and fear thee, faying, are in joy and felicity; We give Come, ye bleffed children of thee hearty thanks, for that it my Father, receive the kinghath pleafed thee to deliver dom prepared for you from the this our brother out of the mi- beginning of the world. Grant feries of this finful world; be this, we beseech thee, O merfeeching thee that it may please ciful Father, through Jefus thee of thy gracious goodness, Chrift our Mediator and Refhortly to accomplish the num- deemer. Amen. ber of thine He grace of Jefus thy kingdom, that we, with all T Chia, and the love us thofe that are departed in the God, and the fellowship of the true faith of thy holy Name, Holy Ghoft, be with us all emay have our perfect confum- vermore. Amen. The |