Order

of

Divine Services.

The Congregation standing, the Minister begins the service with a sentence of Salutation from the Scriptures.

After which the People chant with the Choir the Doxology:

GLORY be to the Father, and to the Son,

And to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
World without end.

Amen.

THE PROFESSION OF FAITH.

All still standing, the People then, being invited by the Minister, say with him the Apostle's Creed, as follows:

I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

THE INVOCATION, AND THE LORD's Prayer.

The People then kneeling, or reverently bowing, the Minister offers the Prayer of Invocation; the Minister himself standing, both here and in all other prayers.

After the Invocation, the Lord's Prayer is said by the People, with the Minister, as follows:

OUR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

THE READING OF THE LAW.

The People then being seated, the Minister solemnly reads the Ten Commandments, with the Two Commandments wherein they are summed up by our Lord.

And the following Response is sung by the Choir:

THE Lord our God be with us;

Let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

That he may incline our hearts unto him,

To walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments.

THE INVITATION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SIN.

After this, the Minister reminds the People of their sins and exhorts them to confession, in some Scriptural sentences of Invitation.

Then, the Congregation kneeling or humbly bowing, the Minister offers the Prayer of Confession and Absolution.