although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth. When the fick person is visited, and receiveth the holy Communion all at one time, then the Priest, for more expedition, shall cut off the Form of the Visitation at the Pfalm [In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust and go straight to the Communion. • In the time of the Plague, Sweat, or other fuch like contagious times of sickness or diseases, when none of the Parish or Neighbours can be gotten to communicate with the fick in their houses for fear of the Infection, upon special request of the diseased, the Minister may only communicate with him. I The Order for the Burial of the DEAD. Here is to be noted, That the Office ensuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent bands upon themselves. The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corps at the entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the Grave, shall say or fing, Am the refurrection and the life, faith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whofoever liveth and believeth in me, hall never die. S. John 11. 25, 26. Know that my Redeemer lihe shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin, worms destroy thisbody; yet in my fleslu shall I see God: whom I shall fee for my self, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. Feb 19.25, 26, 27. Iveth, and that W Ebrought 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. 27im. 6.7. Job 1.21. After they are come into the Said, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly is in my sight. I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept filence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me. My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled: and at the laft I spake 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. Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long: and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee, and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee. : Deliver Deliver me from all mine In the morning it is green, offences: and make me not a and groweth up: but in the rebuke unto the foolish. I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: uth: for it was thy doing. Take thy plague away from me: I am even confumed by means of thy heavy hand. When thou with rebukesdost chaften man for fin, thou makest his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we confume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy wrathfu wrathful indignation. Thou haft fer our mifdeeds 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 threeHear my prayer, O Lord, score years and ten, and though and with thine ears confider men be sostrong, that they come my calling: hold not thy peace to fourscore years: yet is their at my tears. strength then but labour and For I am a stranger with forrow; so soon passeth it athee: and a sojourner, as all way, and we are gone. my fathers were. But who regardeth the pow O spare me a little, that I er of thy wrath: for even theremay recover my strength: be- after as a man feareth, so is thy fore I go hence, and be no more seen. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the, &c. Domine, refugium. Pfalm 90. Lord, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to deftruEtion: again thou sayst, 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. As foon as thou scattereft them, they are even as a fleep: and fade away fuddenly like the grass. displeasure. So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last and be gracious unto thy servants. O fatisfie us with thy mercy, and that foon: so shall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again, now after the time thou that hast plagued us: and for the years wherein we have fuffered adversity. Shew thy fervants thy work: and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majesty 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. As it was in the, &c. 13 Then Then fall follow the Lessonta- us eat and drink, for to morrow ken out of the Fifteenth Chap- we die. Be not deceived ; evil Ber of the former Epistle of communications corrupt good Saint Paul to the Corinthians manners. Awake to righteouf 1 Cor. 15. 20. nefs, and fin not; for fome have Ow is Christ risen from not the knowledge of God. N I the dead, and become the speak this to your thame. But firft-fruits of them that flept. some man will say, How are the For fince by man came death, dead raised up? and with what by man came also the refurre- body do they come? Thou fool, Ction of the dead. For as in A- that which thou fowest is not dam all die, even so in Christ quickned except it die. And mail all be made alive. But eve- that which thou soweft, thou ry man in his own order: Christ sowest not that body that shall the firft-fruits; afterward they be, but baregrain, 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; when he hall have put flesh 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 must another flesn of beasts, another reign till he hath put all ene of fishes, and another of birds. mies under his feet. The last There are also celestial bodies, enemy that_shall be destroyed and bodies terrestrial; but the is death: For he hath put all glory of the celestial 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 manifest 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 stars; for one star differeth all things shall be fubdued unto from another star in glory. So him, then shall the Son also also is the refurrection of the himielf be fubject unto him dead; It is sown in corruption; that put all things under him, it is raised in incorruption: It that God may be all in all. Else is sown in dishonour; it is raised what shall they do which are in glory: It is sown in weakness; baptized for the dead, if the it is raised in power: It is fown dead rise not at all? why are a natural body; it is raised a they then baptized for the spiritual body. There is a nadead? And wh why stand 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 I have have The first man Adam was made in Chrift Jesus our Lord, I die a living foul, the last Adam daily. If after the manner of was made a quickning Spirit. men I have fought with beasts Howbeit, that was not first at Ephefus, what advantageth which is spiritual; but that it me, if the dead rise not? Let which is natural, and afterward Prieft shall say, or the Prieß and Clerks shall fing, that Man that is that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the fecond man is the Lord from born of a woheaven. As is the earthy, fuch man, hath but a short 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 shall also bear continueth in one ftay. the image of the heavenly. Now In the midst of life we are in this I fay, brethren, that flesli 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 justcorruption inherit incorrupti- ly difpleased? on. Behold, I shew you a my- Yet, O Lord God moft holy, ftery. We shall not all fleep, O Lord most mighty, O holy but we shall 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 shall found, and the Thou knowest, Lord, the fedead shall be raise incorrupti- crets of our hearts; shut not ble, and we shall be changed.) thy merciful ears to our prayFor this corruptible must put ers; but spare us, Lord moft -on incorruption, and this mor- holy, O God most mighty, O tal must put on immortality. holy and merciful Savicur, So when this corruptible shall thou most worthy Judge ererhave put on incorruption, and nal, fuffer us not at our last this mortal shall have put on hour for any pains of death to immortality, then shall be fall from thee. brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy fting? 0 grave, where is : Then while the Earth shall be cast upon the body by fome standing by, the Priest shall say, Orafmuch as it hath plea - is fin, and the strengh 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 Jesus Chrift, commit his body to the ground; Therefore, my beloved bre- earth to earth, ashes to afhes, thren, be ye stedfast, unmove- dust to dust, in fure and certain able, always abounding in the hope of the refurrection to ework of the Lord, forafniuch ternal life, through our Lord as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. When they come to the Grave, Jesus Chrift, who flaall change 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 I faying Then shall be said or fung, mation and bliss, both in body Heard a voice from heaven, and foul, in thy eternal and unto me, Write; everlasting glory, through JeFrom henceforth blessed are fus Christ our Lord. Amen. the dead which die in the Lord: even fo faith the Spirit; for they reft from their labours. Rev. 14. 13. Then the Priest shall say, Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Ur Father, which art in Ο The Collect. Merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Chrift, who is the refurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who alio 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 seech thee, O Father, to raise give us our trespasses, As we us from the death of fin unto forgive them that trespass a- the life of righteousness; that gainst us. And lead us not in- when we shall depart this life, to temptation; But deliver us we may rest in him, as our from evil. Amen. hope is this our brother doth, and that at the general refurin the last day, we may Priest. A Lmighty God, with whom rection do live the spirits of them be found acceptable in thy that depart hence in the Lord, fight, and receive that blessing and with whom the fouls of the which thy well-beloved Son faithful, after they they are delivered shall then pronounce to all from the burden of the flesh, that love and fear thee, saying, are in joy and felicity; We give Come, ye blessed children of thee hearty thanks, for that it my Father, receive the kinghath pleased 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 merseeching thee that it may please ciful Father, through Jesus thee of thy gracious goodness, Christ our Mediator and Refhortly to accomplish the num- deemer. Amen. ber of thine elect, and to hasten He grace of our Lord Jesus thy kingdom, that we, with all Christ, and the love of those that are departed in the God, and the fellowship of the true faith of thy holy Name, Holy Ghost, be with us all emay have our perfect confum- vermore. Amen. T The |