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.

STEREOTYPEI) BY D. & G. BRUCE, NEW-YORK.

From the stereotype press of the Auxiliary New-York

Bible and Common Prayer Book Society.

NEJV-YORR,

1823.

New-York, July 2, 1823. I Do hereby certify, that this Edition of the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, &c. (having been coinpareil with a standard Book, and corrected by the same) is permitted to be published as an Edition duly compared and corrected by a suitable Person appointed for that purpose, as the Canon directs.

JOHN HENRY HOBART; Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Churen

in the State of New York ,

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

he read.

The Ratification of the Books to such as are of Riper Years,

of Common Prayer.

and able to answer for theme

2 The Preface.

selves.
-3 The Order how the Psalter is 17 A Catechism; that is to say,

appointed to be read. lan Instruction to be learned
4 The Order how the rest of the by every person before he be
Holy Scripture is aprointed to brought to be confirmed by the

Bishop.
6 Tables of Lessons of Holy 18 The Order of Confirmation,

Scripture; to be read at Morn-1 or Laying on of Hands upon

ing and Evening Prayer those that are baptized, and

throughout the Year.

come to Years of Discretion.

16 The Calendar. .

19 The Form of Solemnization

7 Tables and Rules for the l of Matrimony.
! Moveable and Immoveable 20 The Order for the Visitation

Feasts, together with the Days of the Sick.
of Fasting and Abstinence 21 The Communion of the Sick

throughout the Year.

22 The Order for the Burial of

8_Tables for finding the Holy-l the Dead..

Days.

23 The Thanksgiving of Women

9_The Order for Daily Morning after Child-Birth, commonly

Prayer.

called, The Churching of Wo.

10 The Order for Daily Evening men.

Prayer.

124 Forms of Prayer to be used

1 Prayers and Thanksgivings) at Sea.

upon several Occasions, to be 25 A Form of Prayer for the Vi-

used before the two final Pray- sitation of Prisoners.

ers of Morning and Evening 26 A Form of Prayer and Thanks-

Service.

I giving to Almighty God, for the

12 The Collects, Epistles, and Fruits of the Earth, and all the

Gospels, to be used throughout other Blessings of his mercitui

the Year.

Providence.

13 The Order for the Administra-127 Forms of Prayer to be used in

tion of the Lord's Supper, or) Families.

Holy Communion.

28 Selections of Psalms, to be

34 The Ministration of Public used instead of the Psalms for

Baptism of Infants, to be used the Day, at the Discretion of

in the Church.

the Minister.

15 The Ministration of Private 29 The Psalter, or Psalms of

Baptism of Children in Houses. David.
16 The Ministration of Baptism

THE RATIFICATION OF THE BOOK OF

COMMON PRAYER.

By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal

Church in the United States of America, in Convention, this 16th Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. THIS Convention, having in their present Session set forth

1 A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacruments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, do hereby establish the said Book: And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church; and require, that it be received as such by all the Members of the same: And this Book shall be in Use from and after the first Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety.