THE LITANY. All standing, the Minister shall say and the congregation respond: Lord, have mercy upon us. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. Unto thee do we give thanks; for thou art good: for thy mercy endureth forever. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our maker. Then shall all kneel and say: Most Holy and Almighty God, our Saviour, We acknowledge our transgressions. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way. We have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly. The good that we knew to do we have not done : And in all our works we have been unprofitable servants, and have come short of thy glory. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake: Amen. Thus saith the Lord: I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Go, and sin no more. B (1) Then the congregation shall sing, all standing: L. M. O Lord, have mercy on us all; TUNE TE DEUM. Have mercy on us when we call; Lord, we have put our trust in thee, Confounded let us never be: Amen. Then shall follow the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer, the congre gation standing until the invocation to the Holy Ghost shall have been said: 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 went to the place of departed spirits. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sitteth at 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 christian church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting: Amen. 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. Lord God, 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 trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever: Amen. Lord God, Son, thou Saviour of the world, Be gracious unto us. Lord God, Holy Ghost, Abide with us forever. TUNE 132, PART 2. Thou Lamb once slain, our God and Lord, To needy prayers thine ear afford, And on us all have mercy. Then shall the Minister continue, the congregation responding: From all sin, From all error, From all evil, Preserve us, gracious Lord and God. |