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The ORDER for the

BURIAL of the DEA D.

Here is to be noted, That the Office enfuing is not be used for any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent Hands upon themfelves. The Priests and Clerks meeting the Corps at the Entrance of the Church-yard, and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the Grave, jball Jay or fing.

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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 believeth in me, fhall never die. S. John. xi. 25. 26.

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Know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my fkin, worms deftroy this body; yet in my flefli fhall I fee God whom I fhall fee for myfelf, and mine eyes fhall behold, and not another. Job xx. 25, 26, 27.

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E brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; bleffed be the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 7. Job i. 21.

After they are come into the Church, shall be read one or both of these Pfalm

following.

Dixi, Cuftodiam. Pfalm 39.

I 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 fight.

I held my tongue, and fpake 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 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.

Behold,

Behold, thou haft made my days as it were a fpan long: and mine age is even as nothing in refpect of thee, and verily every man living is altogether vanity.

For man walketh in a vain fhadow, and difquieteth him felf 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 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 fretting 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 1 go hence, and be no more seen.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the, &c.

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Domine, refugium. Pfalm xc.

ORD, 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 everlafting, and world without end.

Thou turneft man to destruction: again thou fayeft, 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 asleep: and fade away fuddenly like the grafs.

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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 difpleasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

Thou haft fet our mifdeeds before thee: and our fecret fins in the light of thy countenance.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: wé bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

The days of our age are threescore 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.

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth, fo is thy difpleasure.

So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Turn thee again, O Lord, at the laft: and be gracious unto thy fervants.

O fatisfy us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

Comfort us again, now after the time that thou 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.

As it was in the, &c.

Then fhall follow the Lefon taken out of the fifteenth Chapter of the former Epiftle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians,

I Cor. 15. 20.

OW is Chrift rifen from the dead, and become the

NOW first-fruits of them that flept. For fince by man

came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift fhall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Chrift the firft

fruits; afterward they that are Chrifts, at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he fhall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he fhall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The laft enemy that fhall be deftroyed is death: For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he faith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things fhall be fubdued unto him, then shall the Son alfo himself be fubject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. Elfe what fhall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rife not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? And why ftand we in jeopardy every hour? I proteft by your rejoicing which I have in Chrift Jefus our Lord, I die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beafts at Ephefus, what advantageth it me if the dead rife not? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we die. Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteoufnefs, and fin not; for fome have not the knowledge of God: I fpeak this to your fhame. But fome man will fay, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened except it die. And that which thou foweft, thou foweft not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of fome other grain. But God giveth it a body, as it hath pleafed him, and to every feed his own body. All flesh is not the fame flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beafts, another of fishes, and another of birds. These are alfo celestial bodies, and bodies terreftrial; but the glory of the celeftial is one, and the glory of the terreftrial is another. There is one glory of the fun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the ftars; for one ftar differeth from another ftar in glory. So alfo is the refurrection of the dead: It is fown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is fown in difhonour; It is raifed in glory: It is fown in weak nefs; it is raised in power: It is fown a natural body; it is raised a fpiritual body. There is a na

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tural body, and there is a fpiritual body, And fo it is writ ten, The firft man Adam was made a living foul, the last Adam was made a quickening fpirit. Howbeit, that was not firft which is fpiritual: but that which is natural, and afterward that which is fpiritual. The firft man is of the earth, earthy: the fecond man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, fuch are they that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, fuch are they alfo that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we fhall alfo bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I fay, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption, Behold, I fhew you a myf tery: We fhall not all feep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; (for the trumpet fhall found, and the dead fhall be raised incorruptible, and we fhall be changed.) For this corruptible muft put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal fhall have put on immor. tality, then fhall be brought to pafs the faying that is writ ten, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy fting? O grave, where is thy victory? The fting of death is fin, and the ftrength of fin is the law. But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye fted. faft, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forafmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

When they come to the Grage, while the Corps is-made ready to be laid inte the earth, the Pricft fall fay, or the Prief and Clerks fall fing,

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AN that is born of a woman, hath but a fhort time to live, and is full of mifery, He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower, he Heeth as it were a fhadow, and never continueth in one stay.

In the midft of life we are in death of whom may we feek for fuccour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our fins art juttly difpleated?

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