THE

1871

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

AND ADMINISTRATION OF

THE SACRAMENTS:

AND OTHER

RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE USE OF

The Protestant Episcopal Church

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

TOGETHER WITH

THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID.

UNIV OF TEXAS

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & CO., 90, 92 & 94 GRAND STREET.

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viz.:

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HEREBY CERTIFY, that the Offices contained in this Book, Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons The Form of Consecration of a Church or Chapel; and An Office of Institution of Ministers into Parishes or Churches, have been compared with, and corrected by, a Standard Book, by a Presbyter of this Diocese duly appointed by me

JONA M. WAINWRIGHT,

NEW YORK, September 26th, 1653.

Provisional Bishop of New York

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. The Ratification of the Book of Common Prayer.

II. The Preface.

III. The Order how the Psalter is appointed to be read.

IV. The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appoir ted to be read.

V. Tables of Lessons of Holy Scripture, to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer

throughout the Year.

VI. The Calendar.

VII. Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts, together with the days

of Fasting and Abstinence throughout the Year.

VIII. Tables for finding the Holydays.

IX. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer.

X. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer.

XL. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several Occasions, to be used before the two final

prayers of Morning and Evening Service.

XII. The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used throughout the Year.

XIII. The Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion.

XIV. The Ministration of Public Baptism of Infants, to be used in the Church.

XV. The Ministration of Private Baptism of Children, in Houses.

XVI. The Ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years, and able to answer for

themselves.

XVII. A Catechism; that is to say, an Instruction to be learned by every Person before he

be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop.

XVIII. The Order of Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands upon those that are baptized,

and come to years of Discretion.

XIX. The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony.

XX. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick.

XXI. The Communion of the Sick.

XXII. The Order for the Burial of the Dead.

XXIII. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called, The Churching

of Women.

XXIV. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea.

XXV. A Form of Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners.

XXVI. A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth,

and all the other Blessings of his merciful Providence.

XXVII. Forms of Prayer to be used in Families.

XXVIII. Selections of Psalms, to be used instead of the Psalms for the day, at the discretion

of the Minister.

XXIX. The Psalter, or Psalms of David.