THE ORDER,

Where and how Morning and Evening Prayer shall be said or sung.

The Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel, except it be otherwise determined by the Ordinary of the place and the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past.

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And here is to be noted, that the Presbyter or Minister, at the time of the Communion, and at other times in his Ministration, shall use such Ornaments in the Church, as are prescribed, or shall be, by His Majesty, or His Successors, according to the Act of Parliament provided in that behalf.

AN ORDER

FOR

MORNING PRAYER,

DAILY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

At the beginning both of Morning Prayer, and likewise of Evening Prayer, the Presbyter or Minister shall read with a loud voice some one of these Sentences of the Scriptures that follow. And then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences.

CAST away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit: for why will ye die? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live. Ezek. xviii. 31, 32.

Hide thy face from my sins; and blot out all mine iniquities. Psalm li. 9.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm li. 17.

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Rent 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 by his servants the prophets. Dan. ix. 9, 10.

He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth and forsaketh them, shall have mercy. Prov. xxviii. 13.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. Jer. x. 24.

Enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psalm cxliii. 2.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 John i. 8.

DEARLY beloved brethren: the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and 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 mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God; yet ought we most 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 be requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. Wherefore I pray and beseech you, as many as be here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice, unto the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me:

A General Confession, to be said by all that are present, after or with the Deacon or Presbyter, all humbly kneeling.

ALMIGHTY and most 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 we ought not to have done, And there is no

health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders: Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults: Restore thou them that be penitent, According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord: And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory of thy holy Name, And the salvation of our own souls. Amen.

The Absolution, or Remission of sins, to be pronounced by the Presbyter alone, he standing up and turning himself to the people, but they still remaining humbly upon their knees. ALMIGHTY God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; and who hath given power and commandment to the Presbyters of his Church, the Ministers of his Gospel, to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins: the same Almighty God pardoneth and absolveth all them which truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore we beseech him to grant us true repentance, and his Holy Spirit ; that we may receive from him absolution from all our sins, that those things may please him which we