ï DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that this edition of the COMMON PRAYER BOOK, the Articles, Offices, and Metre Psalms and Hymns, having been compared and corrected by the Standard Book by a Presbyter appointed for the purpose, is permitted to be pub. lished accordingly. BENJIN T. ONDERDONK,

NEW-YORK, Dec. 11th, 1840.

Bishop of the Diocese of New-York.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. 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 appointed

to be read,...

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4

5

7

7

8

10

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

and Evening Prayer throughout the year,...

Vh The Calendar,..

VII. Tables and Rules for the Moveable and Immoveable Feasts,

together with the aays of Fasting and Abstinence

throughout the year,...

VIII. Tables for finding the Holy-days,....................、

IX. The Order for Daily Morning Prayer,.

X. The Order for Daily Evening Prayer,..

XI. The Litany, or General Supplication, to be used after Morning

Service on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,......

XII. Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions, to be used

before the two final prayers of Morning and Evening

Service,......

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

year,.....

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

Communion,

142

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

Church,.....

155

XVI. The Ministration of Private Baptism of children, in houses,. 159

XVII. The Ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years, and

able to answer for themselves,...

XVIII. A Catechism; that is to say, an Instruction to be learned by

every person before he be brought to be confirmed by the

Bishop,.

163

168

XIX. The Order of Confirmation, or laying on of hands upon those

that are baptized, and come to years of discretion,.... 172

XX. The form of Solemnization of Matrimony,..

XXI. The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, ................... 176

XXII. The Communion of the Sick,..

174

182

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XXIII. The Order for the Burial of the Dead,.

183

XXIV. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly

called, The Churching of Women,..

187

XXV. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea,..

189

XXVI. A Form of Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners,.

XXVII. A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the

fruits of the earth, and all the other blessings of his merciful

providence,..

195

202

XXVIII. Forms of Prayer to be used in Families,.

204

XXIX. Selections of Psalms, to be used instead of the Psalms for the

day, at the discretion of the Minister,..

208

XXX. The Psalter, or Psalms of David,.....
........................ 226