NUNC DIMITTIS. St. Luke ii. 29. forth her increase: and God, LORD, now lettest thou even our own God, shall give thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen : thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; us his blessing. God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him. 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. ¶ Then shall be said or sung the Apostles' Creed by the Minister and the people, standing. As it was in the beginning, BELIEVE in God the Fa is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. ¶ Or else this Psalm; except it be on the Twelfth Day of the Month. DEUS MISEREATUR. Psal. Ixvii. GOD OD be merciful unto us, and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us: That thy way may be known upon earth: thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praise thee. O let the nations rejoice and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. ther 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 Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen. Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the peo-And after that, these Prayers followple praise thee. Then shall the earth bring ing, all devoutly kneeling; the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice, The Lord be with you. none other that fighteth for Answer. And with thy us, but only thou, O God. spirit. Minister. Let us pray. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Then the Minister, Clerks, and people, shall say the Lord's Prayer with a loud voice. OUR UR Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in Priest. O God, make clean our hearts within us. Answer. And take not thy holy Spirit from us. Then shall follow three Collects; the first of the Day; the second for Peace; the third for Aid against all Perils, as hereafter followeth: which two last Collects shall be daily said at Evening Prayer without alteration. THE SECOND COLLECT AT EVENING PRAYER. earth, As it is in heaven. O GOD, from whom all Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say, O Lord, shew thy mercy upon us; Answer. And grant us thy salvation. Priest. O Lord, save the Queen. Ans. And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee. Priest. Endue thy Ministers with righteousness. Answer. And make thy chosen people joyful. Priest. O Lord, save thy people. Answer. And bless thine inheritance. Priest. Give peace in our time, O Lord. holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we being defended from the fear time in rest and quietness; of our enemies may pass our through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. THE THIRD COLLECT, FOR AID AGAINST ALL PERILS. Answer. Because there is LORD our heavenly Fa 47 ther, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, A PRAYER FOR THE CLERGY the only Ruler of princes, AND PEOPLE. who dost from the throne ALMIGHTY and ever behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen VICTORIA; and so replenish her with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that she may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue her plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant her in health and wealth long to live; strengthen her that she may vanquish and over come all her enemies; and A PRAYER FOR THE ROYAL ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to bless Adelaide the Queen Wink megs, the Prince Albert, Dameger, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family: Endue them with thy holy Spirit; enrich them with thy heavenly grace; prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. lasting God, who alone workest great marvels; Send down upon our Bishops, and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they may truly please thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen. A PRAYER OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM. ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests: Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen. 2 CORINTHIANS, XIII. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer throughout the Year. Upon these Feasts; Christmas-Day, the Epiphany, Saint Matthias, Easter-Day, Ascension-Day, Whit-Sunday, Saint John Baptist, Saint James, Saint Bartholo mew, Saint Matthew, Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Saint Andrew, and upon Trinity-Sunday, shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer, instead of the Apostles' Creed, this Confession of our Christian Faith, commonly called The Creed of Saint Athanasius, by the Minister and people standing. QUICUNQUE VULT. HOSOEVER Son eternal and the Holy will Ghost eternal. W be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholick Faith is this That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate: and the Holy Ghost uncreate. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the And yet they are not three eternals: but one eternal. As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated: but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty: and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties but one Almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods: but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord : and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords: but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity: to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord; So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion to say, There be three Gods, or three Lords. The Father is made of none neither created, nor begotten. : The Son is of the Father | touching his Godhead and alone: not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son: neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons: one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other: none is greater, or less than another; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together: and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood. Who although he be God and Man: yet he is not two, but one Christ; One; not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh: but by taking of the Manhood into God; One altogether; not by confusion of Substance: but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man : so God and Man is one Christ; Who suffered for our salvation: descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty: from whence he shall come to He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is neces-judge the quick and the dead. sary to everlasting salvation: that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man; God, of the Substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds and Man, of the Substance of his Mother, born in the world; Perfect God, and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; Equal to the Father, as At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholick Faith: which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. 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. |