TABLE Showing what Holy-day of the Church falls upon each Sunday for Thirty-two years. Find the year at the head of the Table. In the column under the year, find the date of the Day. In the column at the left hand margin is the name of the Day. NOTE. -In Leap years (marked thus *) one day must be added to the dates in the Table, in January and February; and the Sundays after Epiphany will be as many as if Easter fell one day later. TO BE READ FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER, ON THE SUNDAYS AND OTHER HOLY-DAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. It is not intended that the minister should be confined to the chapters selected in the above table, nor that every chapter should be read through. The minister is at liberty to change the Lesson whenever he thinks proper so to do; and also to read a portion only of the appointed chapter, if it is not convenient to read the whole. The appointed Lessons from the New Testament are to be found under the daily Collects. The Gospel is to be read in the morning, and the Epistle in the evening. Proper Psalms for particular days are to be found by referring to the Table of Contents. MORNING PRAYER. At the beginning of Morning Prayer, the Minister shall read one or more of the following Sentences of Scripture; and then he shall read the Exhortation. WHEN the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Ezek. xviii. 27. I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. Psal. li. 3. Hide thy face from my sins; and blot out all mine iniquities. Psal. li. 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psal. li. 17. Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel, ii. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he set before us. Dan. ix. 9, 10. O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. Jer. x. 24. Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. St. Matt. iii. 2. I will arise, and go to my Father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. St. Luke, xv. 18, 19. Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psal. cxliii. 2. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John, i. 8, 9. The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit, and they who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. St. John, iv. 23, 24. EXHORTATION. DEARLY beloved bre thren, the Scripture moveth us in sundry pla mercy. And although we ought, at all times, humbly to acknowledge our sins before God; yet ought we chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together, to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as are here present, to accompany me, with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying with me A general Confession to be said by the Minister and People. ces to acknowledge and ALMIGHTY and most confess our manifold sins and wickedness, and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which |