THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,

To be read with the Morning or Evening Prayer.

Minister.

I. GOD spake these words, and said, I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt have none other gods but me.

II. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down. to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.

III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain.

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IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath

day. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.

V. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

VI. Thou shalt do no murder.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Hear also what our Saviour Christ saith :

Jesus answered him, The first of all the com

mandments is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is none other commandment greater than these. Mark xii. 29, 30, 31.

People.

LORD, have mercy upon us, and write all these thy laws in our hearts, we beseech thee.

LITANY.

The following LITANY, or General Supplication, to be said by the Minister and People with the Morning or Evening Prayer.

O GOD, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things that are therein; have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

O God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things that are therein; have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

O God, who, by the death and obedience of thy beloved Son, hast purchased to thyself a church and people, and placed them under thy continual protection, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

O God, who, by the death and obedience of thy beloved Son, hast purchased to thyself a Church and people, and placed them under thy continual protection, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

O God, who, by thy Holy Spirit, dost govern, direct, and sanctify the hearts of all thy faithful servants, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

O God, who, by thy Holy Spirit, dost govern,

direct, and sanctify the hearts of all thy faithful servants, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; and for the glory of thy name turn from us all those evils that we most justly have deserved. Spare us, good Lord, spare thy people; and have compassion on the work of thine hands;

Spare us, good Lord.

From all evil, and mischief; from sin, from dangerous temptations, from thy wrath, and from everlasting condemnation;

Good Lord, deliver us.

From all blindness of heart; from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness;

Good Lord, deliver us.

From fornication, and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceitful allurements of this transitory world;

Good Lord, deliver us.

From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from untimely death;

Good Lord, deliver us.