through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 4.7 UNto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Wherefore he saith When he ascended up on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men Now that he ascended what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastours and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ From whom the whole body fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of it self in love The Gospel S. John 15.1 I Am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the branches He that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full Saint Philip and Saint James day The collect O Almighty God whom truly to know is everlasting life Grant us perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way the truth and the life that following the steps of thy holy Apostles Saint Philip and Saint James we may stedfastly walk in the way that leadeth to eternal life through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle S. James 1.1 JAmes a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways Let the brother of low degree rejoyce in that he is exalted but the rich in that he is made low because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass and the flower thereof falleth and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him The Gospel S. John 14.1 ANd Jesus said unto his disciples Let not your heart be trouble ye believe in God believe also in me In my Fathers house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also And whither I go ye know and the way ye know Thomas saith unto him Lord we know not whither thou goest and how can we know the way Jesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me If ye had known me ye should have known my Father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him Philip saith unto him Lord shew us the Father and it sufficeth us Jesus saith unto him Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip He that hath seen me hath seen the Father and how sayest thou then Shew us the Father Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me The words that I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me or else believe me for the very works sake Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also and greater works then these shall he do because I go unto my Father And whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son If ye shall ask any thing in my Name I will do it Saint Barnabas the Apostle The collect O Lord God Almighty who didst endue thy holy Apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the holy Ghost Leave us not we beseech thee destitute of thy manifold gifts nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honour and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Acts 11.22 TIdings of these things came unto the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem and they sent forth Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch Who when he came and had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith and much people was
free-will-offerings of my mouth please thee O Lord and teach me thy judgments 5 My soul is alway in my hand yet do I not forget thy law 6 The ungodly have laid a snare for me but yet I swerved not from thy commandments 7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever and why they are the very joy of my heart 8 I have applied my heart to fulfil thy statutes alway even unto the end Iniquos odio habui I Hate them that imagine evil things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in thy word 3 Away from me ye wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according to thy word that I may live and let me not be disappointed of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast troden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgments Feci judicium I Deal with the thing that is lawful and right O give me not over unto mine oppressours 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousness 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false ways I utterly abhor Mirabilia THy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my delight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to do unto those that love thy Name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me 6 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men and so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eyes gush out with water because men keep not thy law Justus es Domine RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy judgment 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4. Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandments 6 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me yet is my delight in thy commandments 8 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live Evening Prayer Clamavi in toto cor de meo I Call with my whole heart hear me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even unto thee do I call help me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Hear my voice O Lord according unto thy loving kindness quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are far from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandments are true 8 As concerning thy testimonies I have known long since that thou hast grounded them for ever Vide humilitatem O Consider mine adversity and deliver me for I do not forget thy law 2 Avenge thou my cause and deliver me quicken me according to thy word 3 Health is far from the ungodly for they regard not thy statutes 4 Great is thy mercy O Lord quicken me as thou art wont 5 Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors because they keep not thy law 7 Consider O Lord how I love thy commandments O quicken me according to thy loving kindness 8 Thy word is true from everlasting all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for evermore Principes persecuti sunt PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word 2 I am as glad of thy word as one that findeth great spoils 3 As for lies I hate and abhor them but thy law do I love 4 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments 5 Great is the peace that they have who love thy law and they are not offended at it 6 Lord I have looked for thy saving health and done after thy commandments 7 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and loved them exceedingly 8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies for all my ways are before thee Appropinquet deprecatio LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word DAY xxvii 2 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 3 My lips shall speak of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 4 Yea my tongue shall sing of thy word for all thy commandments are righteous 5 Let thine hand help me for I have chosen thy commandments 6 I have longed for thy saving health O Lord and in thy law is my delight 7 O let my soul live and it shall praise thee and thy judgments shall help me 8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost O seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments Morning Prayer Ad Dominum Psal 120. WHen I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soul O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue 3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee thou false tongue even mighty and sharp arrows with hot burning coals 4 Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar 5 My soul hath long dwelt among them that are enemies unto peace 6 I labour for peace but when I speak unto them thereof they make them ready to battel Levavi oculos Psal 121. I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help 2 My help cometh even from the Lord who hath made heaven and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved and he that keepeth thee will not sleep 4 Behold he that
and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind And the first beast was like a lion and the second beast like a calf and the third beast had a face as a man and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne who liveth for ever and ever the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worship him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created The Gospel S. John 3.1 THere was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God For no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him How can a man be born when he is old can he enter the second time into his mothers womb and be born Jesus answered Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit Marvel not that I said unto thee ye must be born again The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one that is born of the Spirit Nicodemus answered and said unto him How can these things be Jesus answered and said unto him Art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things Verily verily I say unto thee We speak that we do know and testifie that we have seen and ye receive not our witness If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things And no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the Son of man who is in heaven And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life The first Sunday after Trinity The collect O God the strength of all them that put their trust in thee Mercifully accept our prayers and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee grant us the help of thy grace that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee both in will and deed through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. John 4.7 BEloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love In this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins Beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another No man hath seen God at any time If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we are in this world There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment He that feareth is not made perfect in love We love him because he first loved us If a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also The Gospel S. Luke 16.19 THere was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus who was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abrahams bosom the rich man also died and was buried And in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom And he cried and said Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame But Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented And besides all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence Then he said I pray thee therefore father that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house For I have five brethren that he may testifie unto them lest they also come into this place of torment Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them And he said Nay father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead The second Sunday after Trinity The collect O Lord who never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love Keep us we beseech thee under the protection of thy good providence and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. John 3.13 MArvel not my brethren if the
world hate you We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren He that loveth not his brother abideth in death Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren But whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him My little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth And hereby we know mat we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him For if our heart condemn us God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God And whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight And this is his commandment that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandment And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us The Gospel S. Luke 14.16 A Certain man made a great supper and bade many and sent his servant at supper-time to say to them that were bidden Come for all things are now ready And they all with one consent began to make excuse The first said unto him I have bought a piece of ground and I must needs go and see it I pray thee have me excused And another said I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them I pray thee have me excused And another said I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come So that servant came and shewed his Lord these things Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind And the servant said Lord it is done as thou hast commanded and yet there is room And the Lord said unto the servant Go out into the high-ways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be filled For I say unto you that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper The third Sunday after Trinity The collect O Lord we beseech thee mercifully to hear us and grant that we to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray may be thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities though Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 5.5 ALl of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time casting all your care upon him for he careth for you Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour Whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your breathren that are in the world But the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen The Gospel S. Luke 15.1 THen drew near unto him all the Publicans and sinners for to hear him And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured saying This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them And he spake this parable unto them saying What man of you having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he find it And when he hath found it he layeth it on his shoulders rejoycing And when he cometh home he calleth together his friends and neighbours saying unto them Rejoyce with me for I have found my sheep which was lost I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more then over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance Either what woman having ten pieces of silver if she lose one piece doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently till she find it And when she hath found it she calleth her friends and her neighbours together saying Rejoyce with me for I have found the piece which I had lost Likewise I say unto you There is joy the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth The fourth Sunday after Trinity The collect O God the protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporal that we finally lose not the things eternal Grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christs sake our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 8.18 I Reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation or the sons of God For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope Because the creature it self also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God For we know that the whole creation groneth and travaileth in pain together until now And not only they but our selves also which have the first-fruits of the Spirit even we our selves grone within our selves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body The Gospel S. Luke 6.36 BE ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful Judge not and ye shall not be judged condemn not and ye shall not be condemned forgive and ye shall be forgiven give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again And he spake a parable unto them Can the blind lead the blind shall they not both fall into the ditch The disciple is hot above his master but every one that is perfect shall be as his master And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but perceivest not the beam that is in thine owne eye Either how canst thou say to thy brother Brother let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye when thou thy self beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye Thou hypocrite cast out
first the beam but of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye The fifth Sunday after Trinity The collect GRant O Lord we beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 3.8 BE ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren be pitiful be courteous not rendring evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing For he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile Let him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil And who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts The Gospel S. Luke 5.1 IT came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God he stood by the lake of Gennesareth and saw two ships standing by the lake but the fisher-men were gone out of them and were washing their nets And he entred into one of the ships which was Simons and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship Now when he had left speaking he said unto Simon Lanch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught And Simon answering said unto him Master we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net And when they had this done they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net brake And they beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ship that they should come and help them And they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink When Simon Peter saw it he fell down at Jesus knees saying Depart from me for I am a sinful man O Lord. For he was astonished and all that were with him at the draught of the fishes which they had taken And so was also James and John the sons of Zebedee who were partners with Simon And Jesus said unto Simon Fear not from henceforth thou shalt catch men And when they had brought their ships to land they forsook all and followed him The sixth Sunday after Trinity The collect O God who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass mans understanding Pour into our hearts such love toward thee that we loving thee above all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that we can desire through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 6.3 KNow ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin For he that is dead is freed from sin Now if we be dead with Christ we believe that we shall also live with him knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him For in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Gospel S. Matth. 5.20 JEsus said unto his disciples Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to his brother Racha shall be in danger of the councel but whosoever shall say Thou fool shall be in danger of hell-fire Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift Agree with thine adversary quickly whiles thou art in the way with him lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and thou be cast into prison Verily I say unto thee thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing The seventh Sunday after Trinity The collect Lord of all power and might who art the author and giver of all good things Graft in Our hearts the love of thy Name increase in us true religion nourish us with all goodness and of thy great mercy keep us in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 6.19 I Speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from righteousness What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Gospel S. Mark 8.1 IN those days the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat Jesus called his disciples unto him and saith unto them I have compassion on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat And if I send them away fasting to their own houses they will faint by the way for divers of them came from far And his disciples answered him From whence can a man satisfie these men with bread here in the wilderness And he asked them How many loaves have ye And they said Seven And he commanded the
according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen The Gospel S. Luke 7.11 ANd it came to pass the day after that Jesus went into a city called Nain and many of his disciples went with him and much people Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city behold there was a dead man carried out the only son of his mother and she was a widow and much people of the city was with her And when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her Weep not And he came and touched the bier and they that bare him stood still and he said Young man I say unto thee Arise And he that was dead sat up and began to speak and he delivered him to his mother And there came a fear on all and they glorified God saying that a great Prophet is risen up among us and that God hath visited his people And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea and throughout all the region round about The seventeenth Sunday after Trinity The collect LOrd we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us and make us continually to be given to all good works through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 4.1 I Therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all The Gospel S. Luke 14.1 IT came to pass as Jesus went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath-day that they watched him And behold there was a certain man before him who had the dropsie And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees saying Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath-day And they held their peace And he took him and healed him and let him go and answered them saying Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath-day And they could not answer him again to these things And he put forth a parable to those who were bidden when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms saying unto them When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding sit not down in the highest room lest a more honourable man then thou be bidden of him And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee Give this man place and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room But when thou art bidden go and sit down in the lowest room that when he that bade thee cometh he may say unto thee Friend go up higher then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect LOrd we beseech thee grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world the flesh and the devil and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee the only God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 1.4 I Thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ that in every thing ye are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you So that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ The Gospel S. Matth. 22.34 WHen the Pharisees had heard that Jesus had put the Sadducees to silence they were gathered together Then one of them who was a lawyer asked him a question tempting him and saying Master which is the great commandment in the law Jesus said unto him Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets While the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them saying What think ye of Christ whose son is he They say unto him The son of David He saith unto them How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool If David then call him Lord how is he his Son And no man was able to answer him a word neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any mo questions The nineteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect O God forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee Mercifully grant that thy holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 4.17 THis I say therefore and testifie in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness But ye have not so learned Christ If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another Be ye angry and sin not Let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the devil Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to
ever Amen ¶ And there shall none be admitted to the holy Communion until such time as he be Confirmed or be ready and desirous to be confirmed The Form of Solemnization of MATRIMONY ¶ FIrst the Banns of all that are to be married together must be published in the Church three several Sundays or Holy-days in the time of Divine Service immediately before the Sentences for the Offertory the Curate saying after the accustomed manner I publish the Banns of Marriage between M. of and N. of If any of you know cause or just impediment why these two persons should not be joyned together in holy Matrimony ye are to declare it This is the First second or third time of Asking ¶ And if the Persons that are to be Married dwell in divers Parishes the Banns must be Asked in both Parishes and the Curate of the one Parish shall not Solemnize Matrimony betwixt them without a Certificate of the Banns being thrice Asked from the Curate of the other Parish ¶ At the day and time appointed for Solemnization of Matrimony the Persons to be Married shall come into the body of the Church with their Friends and Neighbours And there standing together the Man on the right Hand and the Woman on the left the Priest shall say DEarly beloved we are gathered together here in the sight of God and in the face of this Congregation to joyn together this Man and this Woman in holy Matrimony which is an honourable Estate instituted of God in the time of mans innocency signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church which holy Estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence and first miracle that he wrought in Cana of Galilee and is commended of Saint Paul to be honourable among all men and therefore is not by any to be enterprised nor taken in hand unadvisedly lightly or wantonly to satisfie mens carnal lusts and appetites like brute beasts that have no understanding but reverently discreetly advisedly soberly and in the fear of God duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained First it was ordained for the procreation of Children to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord and to the praise of his holy Name Secondly it was ordained for a remedy against sin and to avoid fornication that such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry and keep themselves undefiled members of Christs body Thirdly it was ordained for the mutual society help and comfort that the one ought to have of the other both in prosperity and adversity Into which holy Estate these two persons present come now to be joyned Therefore if any man can shew any just cause why they may not lawfully be joyned together let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace ¶ And also speaking to the Persons that shall be Married he shall say I Require and charge you both as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed that if either of you know any impediment why ye may not be lawfully joyned together in Matrimony ye do now confess it For be ye well assured that so many as are coupled together otherwise then Gods Word doth allow are not joyned together by God neither is their Matrimony lawful ¶ At which day of Marriage if any man do alledge and declare any Impediment why they may not be coupled together in Matrimony by Gods Law or the Laws of this Realm and will be bound and sufficient Sureties with him to the Parties or else put in a Caution to the full value of such Charges as the Persons to be Married do thereby sustain to prove his Allegation Then the Solemnization must be deferred until such time as the truth be tried ¶ If no Impediment be alledged then shall the Curate say unto the Man N. WIlt thou have this Woman to thy wedded Wife to live together after Gods ordinance in the holy Estate of Matrimony Wilt thou love her comfort her honour and keep her in sickness and in health and forsaking all other keep thee only unto her so long as ye both shall live ¶ Then Man shall answer I will ¶ Then shall the Priest say unto the Woman N. WIlt thou have this Man to thy wedded Husband to live together after Gods ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony Wilt thou obey him serve him love honour and keep him in sickness and in health and forsaking all other keep thee only unto him so long as ye both shall live ¶ The Woman shall answer I will ¶ Then shall the Minister say Who giveth this Woman to be married to this Man ¶ Then shall they give their Troth to each other in this manner ¶ The Minister receiving the Woman at her Fathers or Friends Hands shall cause the Man with his right Hand to take the Woman by her right Hand and to say after him as followeth I N. take thee N. to my wedded Wife to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health to love and to cherish till death us do part according to Gods holy ordinance and thereto I plight thee my Troth ¶ Then shall they loose their Hands and the Woman with her right Hand taking the Man by his right Hand shall likewise say after the Minister I N. take thee N. to my wedded Husband to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and health to love cherish and to obey till death us do part according to Gods holy ordinance and thereto I give thee my Troth ¶ Then shall they again loose their Hands the Man shall give unto the Woman a Ring laying the same upon the Book with the accustomed Duty to the Priest and Clerk And the Priest taking the Ring shall deliver it unto the Man to put it upon fourth Finger of the Womans left Hand And the Man holding the Ring there and taught by the Priest shall say WIth this Ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ Then the Man leaving the Ring upon the fourth Finger of the Womans left Hand they shall both kneel down and the Minister shall say Let us pray O Eternal God creator and preserver of all mankind giver of all spiritual grace the author of everlasting life Send thy blessing upon these thy servants this Man and this Woman whom we bless in thy Name that as Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully together so these Persons may surely perform and keep the vow and covenant betwixt them made whereof this Ring given and received is a token and pledge and may ever remain in perfect love and peace together and live according to thy laws though Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest joyn their right Hands together and say Those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder ¶ Then shall the Minister speak unto the people FOrasmuch as N. and N. have consented together in holy Wedlock and have witnessed the same before God and this company and thereto have given and pledged their Troth either to other and have declared the same by giving and receiving of a Ring and by joyning of Hands I pronounce that they be Man and Wife together In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ And the Minister shall add this blessing GOd the Father God the Son God Holy Ghost bless preserve and keep you the Lord mercifully with his favour look upon you and so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace that ye may so live together in this life that in the world to come ye may have life everlasting Amen ¶ Then the Minister or Clerks going to the Lords Table shall say or sing this Psalm following Beati omnes Psal 128. BLessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his way For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord from out of Sion shall so bless thee that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel 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 ¶ Or this Psalm Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd 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 rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall blese 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 ¶ The Psalm ended and the Man and the Woman kneeling before the Lords Table the Priest standing at the Table and turning his Face towards them shall say Lord have mercy upon us Answer Christ have mercy upon us Minister Lord have mercy upon us 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 Amen Minister O Lord save thy servant and thy handmaid Answer Who put their trust in thee Minister O Lord send them help from thy holy place Answer And evermore defend them Minister Be unto them a towre of strength Answer From the face of their enemy Minister O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister O God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob bless these thy servants and sow the seed of eternal life in their hearts that whatsoever in thy holy Word they shall profitably learn they may indeed fulfil the same Look O Lord mercifully upon them from heaven and bless them And as thou didst send thy blessing upon Abraham and Sarah to their great comfort so vouchsafe to send thy blessing upon these thy servants that they obeying thy will and alway being in safety under thy protection may abide in thy love unto their lives end through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ This Prayer next following shall be omitted where the Woman is past Child-bearing O Merciful Lord and heavenly Father By whose gracious gift mankind is increased We beseech thee assist with thy blessing these two persons that they may both be fruitful in procreation of Children and also live together so long in godly love and honesty that they may see their children Christianly and virtuously brought up to thy praise and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God who by thy mighty power hast made all things of nothing who also after other things set in order didst appoint that out of Man created after thine own image and similitude Woman should take her beginning and knitting them together didst teach that it should never be lawful to put asunder those whom thou by Matrimony hadst made one O God who hast consecrated the state of Matrimony to such an excellent Mystery that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Christ and his Church Look mercifully upon these thy servants that both this Man may love his wife according to thy Word as Christ did love his spouse the Church who gave himself for it loving and cherishing it even as his own flesh and also that this Woman may be loving and amiable faithful and obedient to her Husband and in all quietness sobriety and peace be a follower of holy and godly Matrons O Lord bless them both and grant them to inherit thy everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say ALmighty God who at the beginning did create our first parents Adam and Eve and did sanctifie and joyn them together in Marriage Pour upon you the riches of his grace sanctifie and bless you that ye may please him both in body and soul and live together in holy love unto your lives end Amen ¶ After which if there be no Sermon declaring the Duties of Man and Wife the Minister shall read as followeth ALl ye that are married or that intend to take the holy Estate of Matrimony upon you hear what the holy Scripture doth say as touching the Duty of Husbands towards their Wives and Wives towards their Husbands Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians the Fifth Chapter doth give this commandment to all married Men Husbands love your Wives even as Christ also loved the Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies He that loved his wife loveth himself For no man ever yet hateth his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even
placed you in so high a Dignity as also to beware that neither you your selves offend nor be occasion that others offend Howbeit ye cannot have a mind and will thereto of your selves for that will and ability is given of God alone Therefore ye ought and have need to pray earnestly for his holy Spirit And seeing that you cannot by any other means compass the doing of so weighty a work pertaining to the salvation of man but with doctrine and exhortation taken out of the holy Scriptures and with a life agreeable to the same consider how studious ye ought to be in reading and learning the Scriptures and in framing the manners both of your selves and of them that specially pertain unto you according to the rule of the same Scriptures And for this self same cause how ye ought to forsake and set aside as much as you may all worldly cares and studies We have good hope that you have well weighed and pondered these things with your selves long before this time and that you have clearly determined by Gods grace to give your selves wholly to this Office whereunto it hath pleased God to call you So that as much as lieth in you you will apply your selves wholly to this one thing and draw all your cares and studies this way and that you will continually pray to God the Father by the mediation of our only Saviour Jesus Christ for the heavenly assistance of the Holy Ghost that by daily reading and weighing of the Scriptures ye may wax riper and stronger in your Ministry and that ye may so endeavour your selves from time to time to sanctifie the lives of you and yours and to fashion them after the rule and Doctrine of Christ that ye may be wholsom and godly examples and patterns for the people to follow And now that this present Congregation of Christ here assembled may also understand your minds and wills in these things and that this your promise may the more move you to do your duties ye shall answer plainly to these things which we in the Name of God and of his Church shall demand of you touching the same DO you think in your heart that you be truly called according to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Order of this Church of England to the Order and Ministry of Priesthood Answer I think it The Bishop ARe you perswaded that the holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity for eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ And are you determined out of the said Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge and to teach nothing as required of necessity to eternal salvation but that which you shall be perswaded may be concluded and proved by the Scripture Answer I am so perswaded and have so determined by Gods grace The Bishop WIll you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the Doctrine and Sacraments and the Discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded and as this Church and Realm hath received the same according to the Commandments of God so that you may teach the people committed to your Care and Charge with all diligence to keep and observe the same Answer I will so do by the help of the Lord. The Bishop WIll you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange Doctrines contrary to Gods Word and to use both publick and private monitions and exhortations as well to the fick as to the whole within your Cures as need shall require and occasion shall be given Answer I will the Lord being my helper The Bishop Will you be diligent in prayers and in reading of the holy Scriptures and in such Studies as help to the knowledge Of the same laying aside the study of the world and the flesh Answer I will endeavour my self so to do the Lord being my helper The Bishop WIll you be diligent to frame and fashion your own selves and your Families according to the Doctrine of Christ and to make both your selves and them as much as in you lieth wholsom examples and patterns to the flock of Christ Answer I will apply my self thereto the Lord being my helper The Bishop WIll you maintain and set forwards as much as lieth in you quietness peace and love among all Christian people and especially among them that are or shall be committed to your charge Answer I will so do the Lord being my helper The Bishop WIll you reverently obey your Ordinary and other chief Ministers unto whom is committed the charge and government over you following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions and submitting your selves to their godly judgments Answer I will so do the Lord being my helper ¶ Then shall the Bishop standing up say ALmighty God who hath given you this will to do all these things Grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same that he may accomplish his work which he hath begun in you through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ After this the Congregation shall be desired secretly in their Prayers to make their humble supplications to God for all these things For the which Prayers there shall be silence kept for a space ¶ After which shall be sung or said by the Bishop the persons to be Ordained Priests all kneeling Veni Creator Spiritus the Bishop beginning and the Priests and others that are present answering by Verses as followeth COme Holy Ghost our souls inspire And lighten with celestial fire Thou the anointing Spirit art Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart Thy blessed Unction from above Is comfort life and fire of love Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of thy grace Keep far our foes give peace at home Where thou art guide no ill can come Teach us to know the Father Son And thee of both to be but one That through the ages all along This may be our endless song Praise to thy eternal merit Father Son and holy Spirit ¶ Or this COme Holy Ghost eternal God proceeding from above Both from the Father and the Son the God of peace and love Visit our minds into our hearts thy heavenly grace inspire That truth and godliness we may pursue with full desire Thou art the very Comforter in grief and all distress The heavenly gift of God most high no tongue can it express The fountain and the living spring of joy celestial The fire so bright the love so sweet the Vnction spiritual Thou in thy gifts art manifold by them Christs Church doth stand In faithful hearts thou writ'st thy law the finger of Gods hand According to thy promise Lord thou givest speech with grace That through thy help Gods praises may resound in every place O Holy Ghost into our minds send down thy heavenly light Kindle our hearts with fervent zeal to serve God day and night Our weakness strengthen
¶ And then shall be said the Litany as before in the Form of Ordering Deacons save only that after this place That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops c. the proper Suffrage there following shall be omitted and this inserted in stead of it THat it may please thee to bless this our Brother Elected and to send thy grace upon him that he may duly execute the Office whereunto he is called to the edifying of thy Church and to the honour praise and glory of thy Name Answer We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. ¶ Then shall be said this Prayer following ALmighty God giver of all good things who by thy holy Spirit hast appointed divers Orders of Ministers in thy Church Mercifully behold this thy servant now called to the Work and Ministry of a Bishop and replenish him so with the truth of thy Doctrine and adorn him with innocency of life that both by word and deed he may faithfully serve thee in this Office to the glory of thy Name and the edifying and well governing of thy Church through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost world without end Amen ¶ Then the Archbishop sitting in his Chair shall say to him that is to be Consecrated Brother forasmuch as the holy Scripture and the ancient Canons command that We should not be hasty in laying on Hands and admitting any Person to Government in the Church of Christ which he hath purchased with no less price then the effusion of his own bloud before I admit you to this Administration I will examine you in certain Articles to the end that the Congregation present may have a trial and bear witness how you be minded to behave your self in the Church of God ARe you perswaded that you be truly called to this Ministration according to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Order of this Realm Answer I am so perswaded The Archbishop ARe you perswaded that the holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity to eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ And are you determined out of the same holy Scriptures to instruct the people committed to your charge and to teach or maintain nothing as required of necessity to eternal salvation but that which you shall be perswaded may be concluded and proved by the same Answer I am so perswaded and determined by Gods grace The Archbishop WIll you then faithfully exercise your self in the same holy Scriptures and call upon God by prayer for the true understanding of the same so as ye may be able by them to teach and exhort with wholsom Doctrine and to withstand and convince the gain-sayers Answer I will so do by the help of God The Archbishop ARe you ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange Doctrine contrary to Gods Word and both privately and openly to call upon and encourage others to the same Answer I am ready the Lord being my helper The Archbishop WIll ye deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly righteously and godly in this present world that you may shew your self in all things an example of good works unto others that the adversary may be ashamed having nothing to say against you Answer I will so do the Lord being my helper The Archbishops WIll you maintain and set forward as much as shall lie in you quietness love and peace among all men and such as be unquiet disobedient and criminous within your Diocess correct and punish according to such authority as you have by Gods Word and as to you shall be committed by the Ordinance of this Realm Answer I will so do by the help of God The Archbishop WIll you be faithful in Ordaining Sending or Laying Hands upon others Answer I will so be by the help of God The Archbishop WIll you shew your self gentle and be merciful for Christs sake to poor and needy people and to all strangers destitute of help Answer I will so shew my self by Gods help ¶ Then the Archbishop standing up shall say ALmighty God our heavenly Father who hath given you a good will to do all these things grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same that he accomplishing in you the good work which he hath begun you may be found perfect and irreprehensible at the latter day through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Bishop Elect put on the rest of the Episcopal Habit and kneeling down Veni Creator Spiritus shall be sung or said over him the Archbishop beginning and the Bishops with others that are present answering by Verses as followeth COme Holy Ghost our souls inspire And lighten with celestial fire Thou the anointing Spirit art Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart Thy blessed Unction from above Is comfort life and fire of love Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of thy grace Keep far our foes give peace at home Where thou art guide no ill can come Teach us to know the Father Son And thee of both to be but one That through the ages all along This may be our endless song Praise to thy eternal merit Father Son and holy Spirit ¶ Or this COme Holy Ghost eternal God proceeding from above Both from the Father and the Son the God of peace and love Visit our minds into our hearts thy heavenly grace inspire That truth and godliness we may pursue with full desire Thou art the very Comforter in grief and all distress The heavenly gift of God most high no tongue can it express The fountain and the living spring of joy celestial The fire so bright the love so sweet the Vnction spiritual Thou in thy gifts art manifold by them Christs Church doth stand In faithful hearts thou writ'st thy law the finger of Gods hand According to thy promise Lord thou givest speech with grace That through thy help Gods praises may resound in every place O Holy Ghost into our minds send down thy heavenly light Kindle our hearts with servent zeal to serve God day and night Our Weakness strengthen and confirm for Lord thou know'st us frail That neither devil world nor flesh against us may prevail Put back our enemies far from us and help us to obtain Peace in our hearts with God and man the best the truest gain And grant that thou being O Lord our leader and our guide We may escape the snares of sin and never from thee slide Such measures of thy powerful grace grant Lord to us we pray That thou may'st be our Comforter at the last dreadful day Of strife and of dissension dissolve O Lord the bands And knit the knots of peace and love throughout all Christian Lands Grant us thy grace that we may know the Father of all might That we of his beloved Son may gain the blissful