For man walketh in a vain to an end, as it were a tale that shadow, and disquieteth himself is told.

in vain; he heapeth up riches, The days of our age are threeand cannot tell who shall gather score years and ten; and though them. men be so strong that they come And now, Lord, what is my to fourscore years, yet is their hope? Truly my hope is even in strength then but labour and sorthee. row; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

Deliver me from all mine offences, and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto When thou with rebukes dost wisdom. hasten man for sin, thou makest Glory be to the Father, and to the is beauty to consume away, like Son, and to the Holy Ghost; is it were a moth fretting a gar- As it was in the beginning, is nent: every man therefore is but now, and ever shall be, world withvanity. out end. Amen.

Hear my prayer, O Lord; and with thine ears consider my calling: Hold not thy peace at my tears.

For I am a stranger with thee, ind a sojourner, as all my fathers

were.

Then shall follow the Lesson, taken out of the fifteenth Chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians.

1 Cor. xv. 20.

NOW is Christ risen from the

dead, and become the first

O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength; before I go fruits of them that slept. For

hence, and be no more scen.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday; seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

since by man came death, by man Lord, thou hast been our re-came also the resurrection of the fuge, from one generation to ano-dead. For as in Adam all die, even ther. so in Christ shall all be made alive. Before the mountains were But every man in his own order: brought forth, or ever the earth and Christ the first fruits; afterward the world were made, thou art they that are Christ's, at his comGod from everlasting, and world ing. Then cometh the end, when without end. ' he shall have delivered up the king Thou turnest man to destruction; dom to God, even the Father; again thou sayest, Come again, ye when he shall have put down all children of men. rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is As soon as thou scatterest them, death: for he hath put all things they are even as asleep; and fade under his feet. But when he saith away suddenly like the grass. all things are put under him, it is In the morning it is green, and manifest that he is excepted which groweth up; but in the evening did put all things under him. And it is cut down, dried up, and wi- when all things shall be subdued thered. unto him, then shall the Son also For we consume away in thy dis-himself be subject unto him, that pleasure; and are afraid at thy put all things under him, that God wrathful indignation. may be all in all. Else what shall Thou hast set our misdeeds be- they do which are baptized for the fore thee; and our secret sins in dead, if the dead rise not at all? the light of thy countenance. Why are they then baptized for the For when thou art angry, all our dead? And why stand we in jeodays are gone: We bring our years pardy every hour? I protest by

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your rejoicing, which I have in have borne the image of the earthy, Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. we shall also bear the image of the If after the manner of men I have heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, fought with beasts at Ephesus, that flesh and blood cannot inherit what advantageth it me, if the dead the kingdom of God; neither doth rise not? Let us eat and drink, for corruption inherit incorruption. to-morrow we die. Be not deceiv- Behold, I show you a mystery: We ed: Evil communications corrupt shall not all sleep, but we shall all good manners. Awake to righte-be changed, in a moment, in the ousness, and sin not: for some twinkling of an eye, at the last have not the knowledge of God. I trump: For the trumpet shall speak this to your shame. But sound, and the dead shall be raised some man will say, How are the incorruptible, and we shall be dead raised up? and with what changed. For this corruptible must body do they come? Thou fool, put on incorruption, and this morthat which thou sowest is not quick-tal must put on immortality. So ened, except it die. And that which when this corruptible shall have put thou sowest, thou sowest not that on incorruption, and this mortal body that shall be, but bare grain; shall have put on immortality, then it may chance of wheat, or of some shall be brought to pass the saying other grain. But God giveth it a that is written, Death is swallowed body as it hath pleased him; and to up in victory. O death, where is every seed his own body. All flesh thy sting? O grave, where is thy is not the same flesh; but there is victory? The sting of death is sin, one kind of flesh of men, another and the strength of sin is.the law. flesh of beasts, another of fishes, But thanks be to God, which giveth and another of birds. There are also us the victory through our Lord celestial bodies, and bodies terres- Jesus Christ. Therefore, my betrial: But the glory of the celestial loved brethren, be ye steadfast, imis one, and the glory of the terres-moveable, always abounding in the trial is another. There is one glory work of the Lord; forasmuch as of the sun, and another glory of the ye know that your labour is not in moon, and another glory of the vain in the Lord, stars: For one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is

When they come to the grave, while the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, sown in corruption; it is raised in MAN, that is born of a woman, incorruption: It is sown in disho- hath but a short time to live, nour; it is raised in glory: It is and is full of misery. He cometh up, sown in weakness; it is raised in and is cut down like a flower; he power: It is sown a natural body; fleeth as it were a shadow, and ne it is raised a spiritual body. There ver continueth a one stay. is a natural body, and there is a spi- In the midst of life we are in ritual body. And so it is written, death: Of whom may we seek for The first man Adam was made a succour, but of thee, O Lord, who living soul, the last Adam was for our sins art justly displeased. made a quickening spirit. How- Yet, O Lord God most holy, beit, that was not first which is spi-Lord most mighty, O holy and most ritual, but that which is natural; merciful Saviour, deliver us not and afterward that which is spiri- into the bitter pains of eternal tual. The first man is of the earth, death.

earthy: The second man is the Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, of our hearts: shut not thy merci such are they that are earthy: and ful ears to our prayers; but spare as is the heavenly, such are they us, Lord most holy, O God most also that are heavenly. And as welmighty, O holy and merciful Su

four, thou most worthy Judge depart hence in the Lord; and ternal, suffer us not, at our last with whom the souls of the faithhour, for any pains of death to fall ful, after they are delivered from from thee. the burden of the flesh, are in joy Then, while the earth shall be cast and felicity; we give thee hearty upon the body by some standing by, thanks for the good examples of all the Minister shall say, those thy servants, who, having FORASMUCH as it hath pleased finished their course in faith, do Almighty God, in his wise Pro- now rest from their labours. And vidence, to take out of this world we beseech thee, that we, with all the Soul of our deceased Brother, those who are departed in the true we therefore commit his Body to faith of thy holy name, may have the ground; earth to earth, ashes our perfect consummation and bliss, lo ashes, dust to dust: looking for both in body and soul, in thy eterThe general resurrection in the last nal and everlasting glory, through Day, and the life of the World to Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Come, through our Lord Jesus MERCIFUL God, the Father Christ; at whose second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, whe in glorious Majesty to judge the is the resurrection and the life; in World, the Earth and the Sea shall whom whosoever believeth, shall give up their Dead; and the cor-live, though he die; and whosoruptible Bodies of those who sleep ever liveth and believeth in him, n him shall be changed, and made shall not die eternally; who also like unto his own glorious Body; hath taught us, by his holy Apostle according to the mighty working St. Paul, not to be sorry, as men whereby he is able to subdue all without hope, for those who sleep things unto himself. in him; we humbly beseech thee, Then shall be said, or sung. HEARD a voice from heaven, death of sin unto the life of righte O Father, to raise us from the saying unto me, Write, from ousness; that when we shall depart henceforth blessed are the dead this life, we may rest in him; and who die in the Lord; even so saith that at the general resurrection in the Spirit; for they rest from their the last day, we may be found aclabours. Rev. xiv. 13.. V Then the Minister shall say the that blessing, which thy well-beceptable in thy sight; and receive loved Son shall then pronounce to

Lord's Prayer.

OUR Father, who art in Heaven, all who love and fear thee, saying, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done Come, ye blessed children of my on Earth, as it is in Heaven: Father, receive the kingdom preGive us this day our daily bread; pared for you from the beginning of And forgive us our trespasses, as the world: Grant this, we beseech we forgive those who trespass Jesus Christ our Mediator and Rethee, O merciful Father, through against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from deemer. Amen. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Then the Minister shall say one or Christ, and the love of God, both of the following prayers, at his and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore.

evil. Amen.

discretion.

ALMIGHTY God, with whom Amen. do live the spirits of those who

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The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-Birth,

COMMONLY CALLED

THE CHURCHING OF WOMEN.

This service, or the concluding Prayer alone, as it stands among the Occ sional Prayers and Thanksgivings, may be used at the discretion of the Minister.

T The Woman, at the usual Time after her Delivery, shall come into the Church decently apparelled, and there shall kneel down in some convenient place, as hath been accustomed, or as the Ordinary shall direct: And ther the Priest shall say unto her,

FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his good ness, to give you safe deliverance, and to preserve you in the great danger of child-birth; you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God, and say,

I

Then shall the Minister say the fol lowing Hymn, taken from the 11th

Psalm.

Lord's Prayer, with what follows. But the Lord's Prayer may be omit ted, if this be used with the Morning or Evening Prayer,

OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; my But deliver us from evil. Amen. Min. O Lord, save this woman

Dilexi, quoniam.
AM well pleased that the Lord
hath heard the voice of

praver;

earthy servant:

That he hath inclined his unto me: Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

Ans. Who putteth her trust in thee,

Min. Be thou to her a strong

I found trouble and heaviness, and I called upon the name of the tower, Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

What reward shall I give unto the Lord, for all the benefits that he hath done unto me?

Ans. From the face of her en

emy.

Min. Lord, hear our prayer:
Ans. And let, our cry come unto

thee.

Min. Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY God, we give thee humble thanks, for that

I will receive the cup of salvation; and call upon the name of thou hast been graciously pleased the Lord. to preserve, through the great pain I will pay my vows now in the and peril of Child-birth, this woman presence of all his people; in the thy servant, who desires now to courts of the Lord's house, even in offer her praises and thanksgivings the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. unto thee. Grant, we beseech thee, Praise the Lord. most merciful Father, that she

Glory be to the Father, and to the through thy help, may both faithSon, and to the Holy Ghost; fully live, and walk according to As it was in the beginning, is thy will in this life present, and also now, and ever shall be, world with- may be partaker of everlasting out end. Amen. glory in the life to come, through Then shall the Minister say the Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Woman that cometh to give her thanks, must offer accustomed offer ings, which shall be applied by the Minister and the Church-Wardens to th relief of distressed Women in Child-bed: And if there be a Communion, it i Sconvenient that she receive the Holy Communion.

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FORMS OF PRAYER

TO BE USED AT SEA. 17

The Morning and Evening Service to be used daily at Sea, shall be the same which is appointed in the Book of Common Prayer.

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Or this.

These two following Prayers may be also used in Ships of War. MOST glorious and gracious Lord ETERNAL Lord God, who alone God, who dwellest in heaven, but spreadest out the heavens, and beholdest all things below; look down, rulest the raging of the sea; who hast we beseech thee, and hear us, calling compassed the waters with bounds, out of the depth of misery, and out of until day and night come to an end; the jaws of this death, which is now be pleased to receive into thy Almighty ready to swallow us up: Save, Lord, and most gracious protection, the per- or else we perish. The living, the Sous of us thy servants, and the fleet living shall praise thee. O send thy [or ship] in which we serve. Preserve word of command to rebuke the raging us from the dangers of the sea, and Winds, and the roaring Sea; that we, from the violence of the enemy; that being delivered from this distress, may we may be a safeguard unto the United live to serve thee, and to glorify thy States of America, and a security for name all the days of our life. Hear, such as pass on the seas upon their Lord, and save us, for the infinite lawful occasions; that the inhabitants merits of our blessed Saviour, thy Son of our land may in peace and quietness our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. serve thee our God; and that we may The Prayer to be said before a Fight return in safety to enjoy the blessings at Sea against any Enemy. MOST powerful and glorious Lord

of the land, with the fruits of our la-God, the Lord of hosts, that rulest

bour; and with a thankful remembrance of thy mercies, to praise and and commandest all things; thou sittest glorify thy holy name, through Jesus in the throne judging right: And Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Collect.

therefore we make our address to thy Divine Majesty, in this our necessity, that thou wouldest take the cause into

DIRECT us, O Lord, in all our thine own hand, and judge between us doings, with thy most gracious and our enemies. Stir up thy strength, favour, and further us with thy con-O Lord, and come and help us; for tinnal help; that in all our works thou givest not alway the battle to the begun, continued, and ended in thee, strong, but canst save by many or by we may glorify thy holy name; and few. Olet not our sins now cry against finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting us for vengeance; but hear us thy poor life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. servants begging mercy, and imploring Amen. thy help, and that thou wouldest be a Prayers to be used in Storms at Sea. defence unto us against the face of the MOST powerful and glorious Lord God, at whose command the winds blow, and lift up the waves of the sea, and who stillest the rage thereof; we, thy creatures, but miserable sinners, do in this our great distress cry unto thee for help: Save, Lord, or else we perish. We confess when we have Leen safe, and seen all things quiet

bout us, we have forgotten thee,

enemy: Make it appear that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Short Prayers for single Persons, who cannot meet to join in Prayer with others, by reason of the Fight or Storm.

T General Prayers.

LORD be merciful to us sinners, and

save us for thy mercies' sake. God, and refused to hearken to the still Thou art the great God, who hast voice of thy word, and to obey thy made and rulest all things: O deliver Commandments: But now we see how us for thy name's sake.

errible thou art in all thy works of Thou art the great God to be feared Vonder; the great God to be feared above all: O save us, that we may bove all; and therefore we adore thy praise thee.

Divine Majesty, acknowledging thy T Special Prayers with respect to the
Bower, and imploring thy goodness.
Enemy.

ties, Lord, and save us for thy mer-THOU, O Lord, art just and pins
ties' sake, in Jesus Christ, thy Son our erful: O defend our cause against
ord Amen.
the face of the enemy.